Division/Committee: [PMSE] Division of Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering

Driven by advances in polymer science, membrane separations have demonstrated exemplary performance and energy efficiency in solving important societal problems such as seawater desalination, hemodialysis, water treatment, biopharmaceutical purification, and gas separations. Understanding and controlling the transport of small molecules (gas, liquid, and ions) in the membranes are central to enable further advances in membrane technologies. This symposium aims to provide a platform to bring together chemists, materials scientists, and membrane practitioners at the cutting edge of polymer membrane research to highlight significant advances in the development of polymeric membranes with precisely controlled microstructures and functionalities for changing separations (e.g, fractionating dissolved solutes of comparable molecular sizes; isolating dilute species from complex multicomponent mixtures). This symposium welcomes contribution on the design, synthesis, characterization, modeling/simulation, and fabrication of functional polymeric membranes and their applications for energy-efficient separations.

Merlin Bruening

University of Notre Dame

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