Special Issue "Development and Application of Novel Functional Separation Membrane"

Dear Colleagues,

The research and utilization of membranes has a long history. To this day, the development and application of membranes are still full of new opportunities. Compared with traditional separation methods, membrane separation has the advantages of high efficiency, energy saving, less investment, and less pollution. Recently, more high-quality and efficient novel functional separation membrane have continuously emerged, which has injected new vitality into the research and development and application of membrane separation. With the development of functional separation membrane materials and membrane processes, not only can membrane separation technology replace some separation operations, but can also be combined with many unit operations to achieve better results, such as membrane reactor, which combined separation process and reaction in a single unit, or achieve some special functions, such like stimulus response, molecular/ion recognition.

This Special Issue aims to collect contributions on the most recent advances in the field of novel functional separation membrane. Topics of interest are membranes with special function, such as smart gating membrane, stimulus responsive membrane, molecularly/ion imprinted membrane, photocatalytic membrane, catalytic membrane, antifouling membrane and new membrane production method, membrane reactor, and so on. Other topics of novel functional separation membrane are also welcome.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. I look forward to receiving papers about current development and application of novel functional separation membrane.

Prof. Dr. Weidong Zhang
Guest Editor

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• stimulus responsive membrane
• smart gating membrane
• molecularly/ion imprinted membrane
• photocatalytic membrane
• catalytic membrane
• antifouling membrane
• new membrane production method
• membrane reactor