Porous Membranes – Breakthroughs in Manufacturing and Applications

The book is essential for anyone seeking a deep understanding of porous membranes, as it offers valuable insights into manufacturing methods, innovative applications, and strategies for optimizing membrane design to meet critical project demands across various fields.

Porous Membranes: Breakthroughs in Manufacturing and Applications is a comprehensive guide to discovering the world of porous membranes and their applications. This volume gives a global perspective of basic concepts, featuring manufacturing approaches and potential applications where control of pore size and shape, and distribution can be decisive for the success of a membrane process. In-depth explanations elaborate on the key role assigned to a membrane’s pores in directing events that are crucial for the mandatory targets imposed by a project’s requirements. Further, discussions on how to manage and characterize materials from a molecular to macro scale to achieve highly defined architecture to enable high-performing separations are explored. Advances and innovation are central themes, providing useful solutions to current critical aspects and existing bottlenecks in the control of structural and chemical features of targeted membranes. This cross-disciplinary discussion opens new routes for membrane science in expanding fields, including water management, environmental remediation, recovery of targeted compounds, food, and health.

Readers will find this book:

• Introduces the strict relationship between extensively ordered porous membranes and enhanced productivity;
• Explores new approaches based on new membrane pore concepts;
• Emphasizes the feasibility and reliability of the proposed techniques within the context of a potential scale-up, analyzing critical issues and traits;
• Focuses on the role of porous membranes in some strategic membrane operations, providing clear evidence about the fundamental role of structure-separation properties for the success of membrane processes dedicated to natural resource management.

Audience

Researchers in chemistry, biology, biomedicine, materials science, textiles, and electronics who are involved with membranes and materials; technologists and product managers from industry, including those responsible for research and development, building prototypes and commercial devices, will find this book to be especially valuable.

Annarosa Gugliuzza, PhD is a senior researcher at the National Research Council of Italy. She has edited three books and authored and coauthored over 215 scientific publications, including articles, editorials, book chapters, technical reports, and one patent. She is also active in supervision and mentoring activities and serves as an editor and guest editor for several journals and special issues. Her research interests include membranes, nanofilms, coatings, and smart textiles.

Wanqin Jin, PhD is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Nanjing Tech University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, and the Chief Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China and a major program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published over 300 refereed journal publications and two monographs, contributed six book chapters, and has 40 authorized patents. His current research focuses on the development of membrane materials and processes.