Special Issue "Graphene Oxide Membrane for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Applications"

Dear Colleagues,

Membrane separation technologies have revolutionized various industrial processes due to their low cost, high efficiency, and environmental sustainability. In recent years, the emergence of two-dimensional graphene oxide material has brought about new possibilities in membrane design, offering unique atomic thickness and tuneable physical and chemical properties as an ideal membrane building block. High-performance graphene oxide membranes featuring well-defined nano/subnanometer-scale channels for controllable mass transport (for instance, gases, liquids, and ions) display tremendous potential for precise and selective molecular/ionic separation, and have been utilized in a broad spectrum of important applications related to the resources, energy, and environment fields.

The purpose of this Special Issue, “Graphene Oxide Membrane for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Applications”, is to collect recent advancements on developments and applications of innovative graphene oxide membranes. Original research articles, reviews and communications on membrane fabrications, membrane characterizations, channel constructions/regulations, transport and separation mechanisms, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations/calculations, membrane stability and scaling up technologies of graphene oxide membranes, and their utilisation and integration within sustainable energy and clean industry applications in fields including, but not limited to, gas separation, liquid separation, water purification, desalination, ions extraction and energy storage and conversation are welcome. 

Dr. Mengchen Zhang
Dr. Chao Xing
Prof. Dr. Gongping Liu
Guest Editors

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• graphene oxide
• graphene oxide membranes
• nano/subnanometer-scale channels
• molecular/ionic separation
• membrane performance
• membrane applications