CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS

Gas Separation Materials Research

• Plasticization-resistant membranes for CO2 removal from natural gas - Rajeev Prabhakar
  
• Highly selective materials for removal of H2S and other acid/polar gases from mixtures with light gases - Haiqing Lin
  
• Physical aging and chemical stability of high free volume glassy polymers and nanocomposite gas separation materials - Scott Kelman
  
• Interactions of basic nanoparticles and their influence upon gas transport properties - Scott Mattuecci
  
• Effect of substituent size and shape on gas transport properties of disubstituted polyacetylenes - Roy Raharjo
  
• Physical aging of thin glassy polymer films - Brandon Rowe
  
• Network structure-transport properties relationship of solubility-selective membrane for acid/polar gases separation from mixtures with light gases. - Victor Kusuma
  

Gas/Vapor Barrier Materials Research

• Characterization of Oxygen scavenging systems - Keith Ashcraft
  
• Characterization of Oxygen scavenging systems - Richard Li
  

Membranes for Water Purification Research

• Nonporous coatings for water purification membranes - Conor Braman
• Investigating novel low-fouling membranes for wastewater treatment - Hao Ju
  
• End-group modification of poly(ethylene glycol) acrylate: poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate films - Bryan McClosky
  
• Characterization of nanoporous liquid crystal membranes for reverse osmosis - Alyson Sagle
  
• Performance modification via membrane stretching - Yuan Hsuan Wu
• Membrane surface modification by grafting molecules to increase hydrophilicity - Elizabeth Va Wagner

Membrane Module Modeling

• Multicomponent Hollow Fiber Membrane Simulator
• Temperature Distribution (i.e. Energy Balance) for Hollow Fiber Modules