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Electrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes
Principles and Applications
- 1st Edition - September 27, 2022
- Editors: Ali Kargari, Takeshi Matsuura, Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 0 3 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 3 0 5 7 - 2
Electrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes: Principles and Applications covers the fundamental basic science and many engineering aspects of electrospun membrane technology and nanof… Read more
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Request a sales quoteElectrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes: Principles and Applications covers the fundamental basic science and many engineering aspects of electrospun membrane technology and nanofibers, membrane design and membrane processes. The book comprehensively reviews a wide range of applications including pressure-driven processes, MD process, batteries, oil-water separation, air filtration, drug delivery, fuel-cells, and ion-exchange membranes, as well as antimicrobial membranes.
Electrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes will be useful for a range of audiences: chemical, polymer, and materials engineers; professors and graduate students working on membrane-based separation technology and electrospun nanofibers; as well as R&D engineers in industry working with applications including water and wastewater treatment, desalination, drug delivery and tissue engineering, new generation of batteries, fuel cells, and air filtration.
- Introduces the principles of electrospinning and electrospun membranes
- Reviews and evaluates the different configurations of electrospinning
- Discusses scale-up strategies for nanofiber production
Chemical, polymer, and materials engineers, professors and students at university working on membrane-based separation technology and electrospun nanofibers. R&D engineers in industry working in the field of membrane technology and nanofibers for a wide range of applications including water and wastewater treatment, desalination, drug delivery and tissue engineering, new generation of batteries, fuel cells, air filtration
1. Principles of electrospinning
2. Melt electrospinning for membrane fabrication
3. Electrospraying for Membrane Fabrication
4. Gas-assisted electrospinning and electroblowing
5. Co-axial electrospinning
6. Bubble electrospinning
7. Needleless electrospinning
8. Organic and Inorganic electrospun nanofibers
9. Scaleup strategies for nanofibers production
10. Non-electro nanofiber spinning
11. Characterization of nanofibers
12. Electrospun membranes for microfiltration
13. Electrospun membranes for UF/NF/RO/FO/PRO membranes and processes
14. Application of Electrospun and Micro/Nanofibrous Membranes for Membrane Distillation Application
15. Nanofibers for oil-water separation and coalescing filtration
16. Electrospun adsorptive membranes for ion adsorption
17. Electrospun ion-exchange membranes
18. Nanospun Membranes Developed by Electrospinning Technique for Drug Delivery Applications
19. Antimicrobial electrospun membranes
20. Electrospun membranes for batteries
21. Electrospun membranes for fuel cell technology
22. Electrospun membranes for air filtration
23. Smart and novel nanofiber membranes
24. Future perspectives and market of the electrospun membranes
- No. of pages: 662
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 27, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128230329
- eBook ISBN: 9780128230572
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Ali Kargari
Dr. Ali Kargari is an associate professor in Chemical Engineering Department at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. He received B.S. (1994), MSc. (1996) and PhD (2004) degrees from Amirkabir University of Technology. His researches have been focused on polymeric membranes since 1993. He is the founder and manager of Membrane Processes Research Laboratory (MPRL) and also the president of Farnood Institute of Membrane Technology (FIMTEC) (established in 2019). He is the author of more than 120 scientific papers and several book chapters. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Membrane Science and Research, a SCOPUS indexed journal (a Q2 ranked journal, confirmed by Scimago).
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, IranTM
Takeshi Matsuura
Professor Takeshi Matsuura is a senior academic with a career spanning more than 50 years and has held several distinguished posts in many countries including the USA, Canada, Japan, Germany and Singapore. Most recently he joined the University of Ottawa (1992) as the British Gas/NSERC Industrial Research Chair. He served as professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering and the director of the Industrial Membrane Research Institute (IMRI) until he retired in 2002 and was appointed as professor emeritus in 2003. He received the Research Award of International Desalination and Environmental Association in 1983. He is a fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and a member of the North American Membrane Society. He has delivered plethora of invited lectures and presentations to many of the world’s foremost scientific events and conferences. He has published over 400 papers in refereed journals, authored and co-authored 6 books and edited 8 books. A special symposium was held at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North American Membrane Society to honour Prof. Matsuura (together with Dr. S. Sourirajan) for life-long contributions to membrane research and a similarly the International Conference on Membrane Science and Technology 2013 was held in his honour. In addition, he has received the George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research and the occasion of his 75th birthday was marked with a special edition of the journal Desalination.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ottawa, CanadaMS
Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi
Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Membrane Technology, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience at Aalborg University, Denmark. He received his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kashan. His current research interests focus on membrane technologies for resource recovery, desalination, wastewater treatment, and remediation of emerging contaminants, all towards environmental sustainability and the circular economy. He is also keen on materials development and nanofiber membranes for advanced separation technologies. He has contributed to many academic and industrial projects. He also co-edited a book about nanofiber membranes and published >45 references, including international refereed journal papers and book chapters. He has also delivered several invited talks at international events. He has been editing special issues and collections and reviewing for high-ranked journals from reputed publishers. He has a significant commitment to the advancement of cleaner and greener technologies for environmental sustainability and the circular economy.
Affiliations and expertise
Co-Founder and R & D & I Manager, Membrane Industry Development Institute, Tehran, IranRead Electrospun and Nanofibrous Membranes on ScienceDirect