Separation & Purification Reviews provides comprehensive summaries and interdisciplinary viewpoints of significant developments in all areas of separation and purification, including innovative methods, apparatus, theories, and applications. The journal presents reviews that cover a large amount of scientific/technical information in a concise and organized manner on topics such as adsorption, centrifugation, chromatography, crystallization, distillation, extraction, filtration, ion exchange, membrane separations of solid, liquid or gaseous materials. The appropriate content of review manuscripts is described in: Berthod, A. (2009) "So What? or Required content of a review article." Sep. Purif. Rev. 38:203-206.

PEER REVIEW

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized.

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Alain Berthod 
Institut des Sciences Analytiques 
Université Claude Bernard – Lyon 1 
5 rue de la Doua 
Villeurbanne 69100, France
FOUNDING EDITOR
Carel J. van Oss 
Department of Microbiology 
School of Medicine 
State University of New York 
Buffalo, NY 14214
EDITORIAL BOARD
H. ABOUL-ENEIN -  National Research Centre, Egypt 
I. ALI - Central University of Jania Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India 
T. E. BEESLEY - Astec, Whippany, NJ, USA 
P. F. BRYAN - Lygos, Inc., CA, USA 
T. -S. CHUNG - National University of Singapore, Singapore 
S. CRAMER - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA 
P. FEDOTOV - Vernadsky Institute, Russia 
M. C. GARCIA-ALVAREZ-COQUE - Universidad de Valencia, Spain 
Z. G. LEI - Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
R. D. NOBLE - University of Colorado, CO, USA
A. PABBY - Bhabha Atomic Research Center, India                 
I. N. PAPADOYANNIS - Aristotle University, Greece 
A. RATHORE - Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, India 
A. TCHAPLA - Université Paris XI, IUT d’Orsay, France 
C.J. VAN OSS - State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA 
J.L. VEUTHEY - Université de Genève, Switzerland 
R. T. YANG - University of Michigan, MI, USA 
A. ZYDNEY - Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA