Content: PREFACE ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; ISABEL C. ESCOBAR AND BART VAN DER BRUGGEN ; PART I. MEMBRANES FOR ENERGY, PERVAPORATION, GAS SEPARATION, AND CO2 CAPTURE ; 2. ANALYSIS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY FOR GAS SEPARATION AND CO2 CAPTURE ; BART VAN DER BRUGGEN, ISABEL C. ESCOBAR, AND PATRICIA LUIS ; 3. ACCELERATED MATERIALS DESIGN FOR HYDROGEN SEPARATION MEMBRANES ; R. HU, M. C. GAO, AND O. N. DO?AN ; 4. FUNCTIONAL NANOTUBE MEMBRANES FOR HYDROPHOBICITY-BASED SEPARATIONS BY INITIATED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION (ICVD) ; AYSE ASATEKIN AND KAREN K. GLEASON ; 5. COMPARISON OF MEMBRANE PERFORMANCE OF PDMS-BASED MEMBRANES DURING ETHANOL/WATER PERVAPORATION AND FERMENTATION BROTH PERVAPORATION ; S. CHOVAU, S. GAYKAWAD, A. J. J. STRAATHOF, AND B. VAN DER BRUGGEN ; 6. DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF IONIC LIQUID-FUNCTIONALIZED NANOCOMPOSITE MEMBRANES ; HAMID R. HAKIMELAHI, PEI LI, AND MARIA R. COLEMAN ; 7. SEPARATION OF AROMATIC/ALIPHATIC MIXTURES BY PERVAPORATION USING ORTHO-FUNCTIONALIZED POLYIMIDE MEMBRANES ; CLAUDIO P. RIBEIRO JR., BENNY D. FREEMAN, DOUGLASS S. KALIKA, AND SUMOD KALAKKUNNATH ; 8. GAS SEPARATION PROPERTIES OF TRIPTYCENE-BASED POLYIMIDE MEMBRANES ; YOON JIN CHO AND HO BUM PARK ; 9. SIMULATION OF HOLLOW FIBER SPINNING ; Y. SU AND G. G. LIPSCOMB ; PART II. MEMBRANES FOR LIQUID SEPARATIONS ; 10. MEMBRANES FOR WATER TREATMENT APPLICATIONS - AN OVERVIEW ; TILAK GULLINKALA AND ISABEL C. ESCOBAR ; 11. MEMBRANES IN THE DAIRY INDUSTRY ; HEATH H. HIMSTEDT AND JAMIE A. HESTEKIN ; 12. A FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC BASED BIOFILM CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUE AND ITS USE TO SHOW THE EFFECT OF COPPER-CHARGED POLYPROPYLENE FEED SPACERS IN BIOFOULING CONTROL ; RICHARD HAUSMAN AND ISABEL C. ESCOBAR ; 13. COMPARISON OF THE PERMEATION OF MGCL2 VERSUS NACL IN HIGHLY CHARGED SULFONATED POLYMER MEMBRANES ; GEOFFREY M. GEISE, BENNY D. FREEMAN, AND DONALD R. PAUL ; 14. STUDYING THE EFFECT OF FEED WATER CHARACTERISTICS ON THE HYDROPHOBICITY OF CELLULOSE ACETATE ULTRAFILTRAION MEMBRANES AND ITS CORRELATION TO MEMBRANE MORPHOLOGY: A CHEMICAL FORCE MICROSCOPY APPROACH ; AMR M. ZAKY, ISABEL C. ESCOBAR, AND CYNDEE L. GRUDEN ; 15. CARBON NANOTUBE/POLYETHERSULFONE COMPOSITE MEMBRANES FOR WATER FILTRATION ; EVRIM CELIK AND HEECHUL CHOI ; 16. INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF THICKNESS AND PRESENCE OF PORE FORMERS ON TAILOR-MADE ULTRAFILTRATION POLYSULFONE MEMBRANES ; SEPIDEH HAKIM ELAHI AND ISABEL C. ESCOBAR ; 17. REVERSIBLE ION EXCHANGE-MEMBRANE (RIX-M) PROCESS FOR FOULING FREE AND ENERGY EFFICIENT DESALINATION OF SEAWATER ; SUDIPTA SARKAR, RYAN C. SMITH, AND ARUP K. SENGUPTA ; 18. SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION OF POLYBENZIMIDAZOLE MEMBRANES TO INCREASE HYDROPHILICITY AND CHARGE ; MICHAEL FLANAGAN, RICHARD HAUSMAN, BRETT DIGMAN, ISABEL C. ESCOBAR, MARIA COLEMAN, AND TAI-SHUNG CHUNG ; EDITOR'S BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEXES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX