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The Special Issue “Advanced Polymeric Membranes: Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications” is presenting the achievements in the recent research activities concerning the challenging area of modern membrane science and technology, which addresses global human problems, including the safety of the environment and the development of innovative, friendly, and low-cost membrane technologies. This Special Issue covers the entire avenue from the fabrication of innovative membrane polymeric materials to their characterization and practical applications. This Issue presents a broad scope of facile and sustainable strategies for the preparation of porous and dense organic and nanocomposite membrane materials for diverse membrane processes (gas and liquid separation, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, pervaporation, membrane distillation, membrane contactors, etc.), including the correlation between the conditions of fabrication and the structure of the resultant materials which governs their performance. The scope of practical applications of membrane materials is broad, ranging from the treatment of wastewater and the solution of challenging problems concerning the supply of drinking water to special task-targeted applications in catalysis, medicine, environmental monitoring, and diagnostics. This scientific direction has an evident interdisciplinary character and is closely related to the use of diverse physicochemical methods for the characterization of the membrane polymeric materials (chemical composition, free volume, morphology, structural organization at different scales, phase composition, hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity, etc.) and their performance (selectivity, mechanical properties, pore size, pore size distribution, structural morphology, lifetime, stability, etc.). This Issue also addresses the problems associated with the modification of membrane materials and their fit for the solution of specific tasks. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/membranes/special_issues/Adv_Poly_Mem