Advances in Ion Exchange Membranes and Electro-Membrane Processes
A special issue of Membranes (ISSN 2077-0375). This special issue belongs to the section "Membrane Processing and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 71
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ion exchange membrane; membrane material; electrodialysis; water treatment technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ion exchange membrane-promoted electro-membrane processes that are energy-efficient and non-hazardous, such as electrodialysis (ED), membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI), fuel cells (FCs), and flow redox cells, are promising solutions to current environmental and energy issues surrounding on-demand separation, cleaner production, resource utilization and energy conversion. Ion exchange membranes are important materials enabling highly selective ion separation and highly efficient ion transport for innovation-driven development. A significant amount of work has been conducted to develop advanced ion exchange membranes and technologies in the past few decades, with widespread use in the chemical industry, energy, water treatment, electronics, and other fields; they bring huge economic, ecological and social benefits. With advantage, ion exchange membrane technologies have become one of the most important and pioneering platforms in resource, environment and energy today.
This Special Issue aims to collect contributions on the most recent advances in the field of ion exchange Membranes and electro-membrane Processes. Topics of interest are structural design and performance research of novel ion exchange membrane materials or membrane separation processes, as well as the separation or transport mechanisms of ions or other chemicals in the well-defined channels of membranes.
In addition to experimental results, theoretical contributions and simulation studies that elucidate the mass transfer processes in ion exchange membrane separation and define fundamental questions regarding mass transfer behavior from the nanoscale to the macroscale are also welcome.
Dr. Jiefeng Pan
Dr. Xueting Zhao
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- ion exchange membrane
- membrane materials
- electro-membrane processes
- electrodialysis
- fuel cell
- desalination
- clean production
