Casimiro, Maria HelenaFerreira, Luis MotaLeal, João PauloPereira, Claudia Cristina LageMonteiro, Bernardo2020-03-062020-03-062019-12-010076-6356PURE: 17194203PURE UUID: 51130957-742f-408c-8258-92e2c8757369Scopus: 85076441772PubMed: 31816943PubMedCentral: PMC6950004WOS: 000506051700011http://hdl.handle.net/10362/93933UID/Multi/04349/2019. IST-ID/077/2018. IST-ID/076/2018. POCI-01-0145-FEDER -007265.The use of ionizing radiation processing technologies has proven to be one of the most versatile ways to prepare a wide range of membranes with specific tailored functionalities, thus enabling them to be used in a variety of industrial, environmental, and biological applications. The general principle of this clean and environmental friendly technique is the use of various types of commercially available high-energy radiation sources, like60Co, X-ray, and electron beam to initiate energy-controlled processes of free-radical polymerization or copolymerization, leading to the production of functionalized, flexible, structured membranes or to the incorporation of functional groups within a matrix composed by a low-cost polymer film. The present manuscript describes the state of the art of using ionizing radiation for the preparation and functionalization of polymer-based membranes for biomedical and environmental applications.4217251engBiomedical applicationsEnvironmental applicationsMembranesPolymersRadiation technologiesChemical Engineering (miscellaneous)Process Chemistry and TechnologyFiltration and Separationreview10.3390/membranes9120163https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85076441772