Presentations

Polycondensation 2024, 2024 September 16

• Chamoun-Farah, Antoine, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Disulfonated Poly(arylene ether sulfone)s as Desalination Membranes: A Tribute to Jim McGrath” (Oral presentation), Polycondensation 2024, Lyon, France, 2024 September 16.

James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2024 October 15

• Freeman, Benny D., "Membranes Technology - The Future" (Oral Presentation), James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2024 October 15.

BioPACIFIC MIP Renewal Reverse Site Visit, 2024 October 28

• Freeman, Benny D., "Rapid Characterization of Self-Assembly of Novel Block Copolymers via BioPACIFIC MIP SAXS Facilities," (Oral Presentation), BioPACIFIC MIP Renewal Reverse Site Visit, 2024 October 28.

2024 AIChE Annual Meeting, Honorary Session for Ingo Pinnau, San Diego, California, 2024 October 28

• Freeman, Benny D., "My Journey with Ingo (Part of it, at least)", (Oral presentation), 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting, Honorary Session for Ingo Pinnau, San Diego, California, 2024 October 28.

2024 AIChE Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, 2024 October 27-31

• Bujanos, Dominic, Ronald J. Vogler, Katherine Kimball, Manish Kumar, and Benny D. Freeman,  “Tunable Phase Separation of Detergents for the Crystallization of Membrane Proteins and Block Copolymers” (Oral presentation)

• Gatica, Xavier, Justin J. Rosenthal, Isaac W. Tan, Adam N. Mann, Louise Marie C. Cañada, Joan F. Brennecke, Benny D. Freeman, and Nathaniel Lynd, “Poly(1,3-dioxolane)-Based Terpolymer Membranes with 1-Hexyl-3-Methylimidazolium Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)Imide for Carbon Capture and Light Paraffin Separation” (Oral presentation)

• Kimball, Katherine, Ronald J. Vogler, Dominic Bujanos, Benny D. Freeman, and Manish Kumar, “Rapid Phase Separation Driven Formation of Biomimetic 2D Nanosheets”. (Oral presentation)

• Rosenthal, Justin, Mariam Balogun, Noah Wamble, Benny D. Freeman, and Joan F. Brennecke, “Ionic Liquid Membranes Using Isoporous Polymeric Supports”. (Oral presentation)

• Freeman, Benny D., “Emerging Basic Science Questions Regarding Water Transport in Polymers for Water Purification, Resource Recovery, and Energy Applications”. (Oral presentation)

• Huang, Rachel and Benny D. Freeman, “Co-Ion Specific Effect on Li Salt Sorption in Cation Exchange Membrane (CEM)”. (Oral presentation)

• Lopez Marques, Horacio, Jennifer Wade, Stephano Sinyangwe, Hyeonji Oh, Winston Wang, Jorge Marcelino Hernandez, Manish Kumar, and Benny D. Freeman, “Humid CO2 Sorption in Moisture Swing Materials for Direct Air Capture”. (Oral presentation)

• Chamoun-Farah, Antoine, Louise Canada, Joan Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Amine Functionalized Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes (SILMs) for Direct Air Capture (DAC)”. (Oral presentation)

• Balogun, Mariam, Matthew Davenport, Kristofer L. Gleason, Benny D. Freeman, and Joan F. Brennecke, “The Effect of Ionic Liquids Molar Volume on CO2/N2 and CO2/CH4 Pure and Mixed Gas Solubility Selectivity for Industrial Applications”. (Oral presentation)

• Reimund, Kevin, Rahul Sujanani, Jorge Marcelino Hernandez, Manish Kumar, and Benny D. Freeman, “Modeling Pressure-Induced Diffusion of Water in Dense Polymer Membranes”. (Oral presentation)

• Mann, Adam, Louise Kuehster, Nathaniel Lynd, Benny D. Freeman, and Gabriel Sanoja, “Strengthening Isoporous Ultrafiltration Membranes through Polymer Chain Entanglements”. (Oral presentation)

• Pedretti, Noah Wamble, Adam Mann, Louise Kuehster, Gabriel Sanoja, Benny D. Freeman, and Nathaniel Lynd, “Synthesis of Tetrablock Polymers that Form Isoporous Membranes with Enhanced Mechanical Properties Via Self-Assembly and Nonsolvent-Induced Phase Separation”. (Oral presentation)

• Balogun, Mariam, Matthew Davenport, Kristofer L. Gleason, Benny D. Freeman, and Joan F. Brennecke, “Effect of Ionic Liquid Molar Volume on CO2/N2 and CO2/CH4 Pure and Mixed Gas Solubility Selectivity”. (Oral presentation)

• Sujanani, Kevin Reimund, Kristofer L. Gleason, and Benny D. Freeman, “Hydraulic Permeation-Induced Water Concentration Gradients in Ion Exchange Membranes”. (Oral presentation)

• Chamoun-Farah, Antoine, Louise Canada, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Amine Functionaized Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes (SILMs) for Direct Air Capture”. (Oral presentation)

• Vogler, Ronald J., Katherine Kimball, Dominic Bujanos, Benny D. Freeman, and Manish Kumar, “Simplified Synthesis Methods for Membrane-Protein 2D Nanosheets”, (Oral presentation). 

Membrane Society of Korea (MSK) Virtual Webinar - Invited Lecture, 2025 April 23

• Freeman, Benny D., "Ion Solubility, Diffusivity, and Transport in Charged Polymer Membranes for Water Purification" (Oral presentation)

James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2025 April 28

• Freeman, Benny D., "Chemical Separations: Facilitated Transport Membranes for Olefin / Paraffin Separation"

Harrington Symposium, The University of Texas at Austin, 2025 May 15

• Davenport, Matthew N., Rachel Z. Huang, Justin J. Rosenthal, Lucas Jabara, Tanqiumei Song, Winston Wang, Cara M. Doherty (CSIRO, Australia), Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, "Facilitate Transport Membranes for Olefin/Paraffin Separation"

North American Membrane Society (NAMS) 2025: Emerging Frontiers, Nashville, Tennessee, 2025 May 17-21

• Monday, May 19, 2025, Water Treatment I: Davenport, Matthew, Kevin Reimund, Matthew Dombchik, and Benny D. Freeman, “Lack of Chemical Stability of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in Mixed Matrix Membranes for Aqueous Separation Applications”.
   
• Monday, May 19, 2025, NAMS Awards Session II: Vogler, Ronald, Katherine Kimball, Aída Fica, Dominic Bujanos, Benny D. Freeman, and Manish Kumar, “Simplified Synthesis of Biomimetic Self-Assemblies for Nanofiltration and Ion-Ion Separations”
   
• Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Aqueous Phase Modeling: Reimund, Kevin and Benny D. Freeman, “Interpretation of Membrane Transport Experiments via the Solution-Diffusion Model in the Limit of Low Pressure”
   
• Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Ion Transport Investigations II: Quigley, Aubrey, Jordyn Yoh, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, “Mixed Salt Sorption in Ion Exchange Membranes: Effect of Counter-Ion Identity”
   
• Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Ion Transport Investigations II: Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Rahul Sujanani, Zidan Zhang, Leo Gordon (UCSB), Raphaële Clément (UCSB), Rachel Segalman (UCSB), Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “What is the Role of Relative Humidity on Conductivity in Polymer Electrolytes?
   
• Tuesday, May 20, 2025, Olefin/Paraffin Separations: Rosenthal, Justin, Xavier Gatica, Adam Mann, Tangqiumei Song, Isaac Tan, Enrique Loredo, Nathaniel Lynd, Gabriel Sanoja, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Carbon Capture and Light Paraffin Separation Membranes Based on Poly(1,3-Doxolane)/[hmim][Tf2N] Blends”
   
• Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Circular Economy: Kurklu Kocaoglu, Suer, Sabah Najjar, Carson Womack, Louise Kuehster, Hamidreza Mahdavi (Monash University), Nirvana Almada, Laila Halim (Monash University), Michael Batten (CSIRO), Leonie van't Hag (Monash University), Zongli Xie (CSIRO) Zachariah A. Page, Matthew R. Hill (Monash University, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, “Methanol Separation from Poly(lactide) Depolymerization Products”
   
• Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Electrochemical Separations II: Quigley, Aubrey, Kristofer L. Gleason, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, “Flow-Through Permeability Apparatus for Automated High-Throughput Analysis of Complex Solute Mixtures”

2025 Biomass to Biobased Chemicals and Materials – Gordon Research Conference: Feedstocks and Processes for Sustainable Manufacturing of Chemicals and Materials, Newry, Maine, June 3, 2025

• Irving, Paul, Kevin Reimund, Venkat Ganesan, and Benny D. Freeman, “"Revisiting Ion Separation Properties of Cellulose Acetate"

University of Edinburgh - Advanced Technologies for Enabling a Circular Economy Symposium, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, June 25, 2025

• Freeman, Benny, "Ion Solubility, Diffusivity, and Transport in Charged Polymer Membranes for Water Purification"

Fiscal Year 2023-2024

Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory (LBNL) Advanced Light Source Visioning Workshop, 2023 September 19.

• Freeman, Benny D., “Basic Science Questions Limiting Advances in PolymerMembranes for Separations” (Invited presentation), Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory (LBNL) Advanced Light Source Visioning Workshop, 2023 September 19.

James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023, October 18.

• Davenport, Matthew N., Tangqiumei Song, Sejoon Park, Benny D. Freeman,and Joan F. Brennecke, “Scalable Thin Film Composite Membranes for Olefin-Paraffin Separation” (Oral presentation), James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023, October 18.

• Richardson, Julian, Benjamin I. Howard, Laura Murdock, Cara Doherty, Brian C. Benicewicz, and Benny D. Freeman, “Gas Separation Properties of Poly(benzimidazole)s” (Oral presentation), James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023, October 18.

• Rosenthal, Justin, Noah P. Wamble, Mariam Balogun, Louise Marie C. Cañada,Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Improving the Stability of Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes (SILMs) for Fractionation of Light Paraffins” (Oral presentation), James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023, October 18.

• Wamble, Noah, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Advances in Isoporous Membranes” (Oral presentation), James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023, October 18.

• Zofchak, Everett, Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Nathaniel Lynd, Benny D.Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “Understanding Mixed Salt Partitioning in Model Poly(ethylene oxide)-based Membrane Materials ” (Oral presentation), James R. Fair Process Science & Technology Center (PSTC), The University of Texas at Austin, 2023, October 18.

AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Chamoun-Farah, Antoine, Benny D. Freeman and Joan Brennecke, "CO2 Separation with Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes Containing AHA Ionic Liquids" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Freeman, Benny D., "Braskem Award Lecture: Ion Solubility, Diffusivity, andTransport in Charged Polymer Membranes" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Freeman, Benny D., "Division Plenary: Materials Engineering and SciencesDivision Emerging Basic Science Questions Regarding Water and Ion Transportation Polymers for Water Purification and Resource Recovery" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Freeman, Benny D., "Fundamental Membrane Science Research Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Freeman, Benny D., Separations Division Plenary Session, "FundamentalMembrane Science Research Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Pedretti, Benjamin, Noah Wamble, Adam Mann, Matthew Beltran, Mostafa Nassr, Gabriel Sanoja, Benny D. Freeman and Nathaniel Lynd, "Synthesis of Abac Multiblock Polymers That Form Mesoporous Membranes with Enhanced Mechanical Properties Via Self-Assembly and Nonsolvent-Induced Phase Separation" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Sujanani, Rahul, "Rational Design of Polymers for Sustainable Water, Energy, and Environmental Separations" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Sujanani, Rahul, Kevin Reimund, Kristofer L. Gleason, and Benny D. Freeman,“Pressure Induced Diffusion of Water in Hydrated Membranes”. (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Sujanani, Rahul, Oscar Nordness, Seamus Jones, Lynn E. Katz, Joan Brennecke, Benny D. Freeman, and Rachel Segalman, "Impact of Electrolyte Association on Ion Transport in Ion Containing Polymers" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Wang, Zhongzhen , Edwin Torres Cuevas, Benny D. Freeman, and Joan Brennecke, "Treating Brine Solutions by Osmotically-Assisted Reverse Osmosis (OARO) and Thermal-Responsive Ionic Liquids". (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

• Zofchak, Everett, "Integrating Simulations and Experiments to Elucidate Ion and Small Molecule Transport in Polymeric Materials" (Oral presentation), AIChE Annual Meeting, 2023 November 5-10.

Gordon Research Conference: 2024 Chemical Separations, 2024 January 25.

• Freeman, Benny D., "Emerging Basic Science Questions Regarding Water andIon Transport in Polymers for Water Purification and Resource Recovery” (Oral presentation), Gordon Research Conference: 2024 Chemical Separations, 2024 January 25.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Chemical Engineering Seminar Series, 2024 May 8.

• Freeman, Benny D, “Ion Solubility, Diffusivity, and Transport in Charged Polymer Membranes for Water Purification" (Invited Lecture), University of California, Santa Barbara, Chemical Engineering Seminar Series, 2024 May 8.

North American Membrane Society's (NAMS) 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Chamoun-Farah, Antoine, “Amine Functionalized Supported Ionic LiquidMembranes (SILMs) for CO2/N2 Separation” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Davenport, Matthew N., Tangqiumei Song, Caitlin Bentley, Taylor McClung, Cara Doherty, Joan Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Hydrogen Sulfide and Acetylene Stability and the Effect of AgTF2N Concentration on Fractional Free Volume of Hydrogen-stable Ag+-based Facilitated Transport Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Davenport, Matthew N., Tangqiumei Song, Caitlin Bentley, Taylor McClung, Cara Doherty, Joan Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Hydrogen Sulfide and Acetylene Stability and the Effect of AgTF2N Concentration on Fractional Free Volume of Hydrogen-stable Ag+-based Facilitated Transport Membranes”(Poster presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Davenport, Matthew, “Hydrogen- and Acetylene-stable Silver Ion Facilitated Transport Membranes: The Effect of Salt Content on Fractional Free Volume and Gas Permeability” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Huang, Rachel, “Co-Ion Specific Effect on Li Salt Sorption in Cation Exchange Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Irving, Paul R, Kevin Reimund, Everett Zofchak, Nico Marioni, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “Monovalent Ion Selectivity of Cellulose Acetate Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Irving, Paul, “Influence of Backbone Rigidity and Water Content on Lithium/Magnesium Selectivity in Hydrated Polymer Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Ivandic, Suzana, “Insights into Methods of Determining Selectivity of Porous Ultrafiltration Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Kurklu Kocaoglu, Suer, “Thin Film Nanocomposite Membranes Embedded with ZIF-67 for Desalination and Boron Removal” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Mann, Adam, “Strengthening Isoporous Polymer Membranes Through Chain Entanglements” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Harnoor Sachar, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, “The Impact of Dynamical Correlations on Salt Transport in Solvated Ion Exchange Membranes” (Poster presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Harnoor Sacher, Benny D. Freeman, and Vankat Ganesan, “Impact of Dynamical Correlations on Salt Transport in Solvated Ion Exchange Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Marioni, Nico, “Ion and Water Dynamics in the Transition from Dry to Wet Conditions in Salt-Doped PEG” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Moon, Joshua D., Oscar Nordness, Peter Richardson, Rahul Sujanani, Raphaële Clément, Benny D. Freeman, Rachel Segalman, and Craig Hawker, “Versatile Synthetic Platform Using Click Chemistry to Study Water and Ion Transport in Post-functionalized Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Quigley, Aubrey, Kevin Reimund, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, “Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis for Direct LiOH Production from Concentrated Brines” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Quigley, Aubrey, Kevin Reimund, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, “Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis for Direct LiOH Production from Concentrated Brines” (Poster presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Quigley, Aubrey, “Mixed Binary Alkali Halide Salt Transport in PEGDA” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Reimund, Kevin, Rahul Sujanani, Jorge Hernandez, Kristofer Gleason, Manish Kumar, and Benny D. Freeman, “Pressure-induced Diffusion of Solvents in Dense Homogeneous Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Reimund, Kevin, Rahul Sujanani, Jorge Hernandez, Kristofer Gleason, Manish Kumar, and Benny D. Freeman, “Pressure-induced Diffusion of Solvents in Dense Homogeneous Membranes” (Poster presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Reimund, Kevin, “Evidence for Solution-diffusion in Pressure-induced Transport of Solvent Through Dense Polymer Membranes” (Oral Presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Rosenthal, Justin, “Random Poly(1,3-dioxolane)-based Terpolymers for CO2 Separations” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Tilton, Nils, Jacob Johnston, Sarah Dishinger, Mostafa Nassr, JI Yeon Li, Sergi Molins, Nicolas Spycher, Benny D. Freeman, William Stringfellow, Daniel Miller, and Kristofer Gleason, “A New Approach to Simulating Concentration Polarization in Reverse Osmosis Systems with Feed Spacers” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Van Havere, Daan, Rhea Verbeke, Benny D. Freeman, and Ivo Vankelecom, “Interfacial Poly(epoxyether) Membranes, a Versatile Thin-film Synthesis Platform for Carbon Capture Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Van Havere, Daan, Rhea Verbeke, Benny D. Freeman, and Ivo Vankelecom, “Interfacial Poly(epoxyether) Membranes, a Versatile Thin-film Synthesis Platform for Carbon Capture Membranes” (Poster presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Vogler, Ronald J., “Simplified Synthesis Methods for Membrane-Protein Nanosheets and Biomimetic Membranes” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Wamble, Noah, “Understanding the Mechanism of Additive-assisted Isoporous Membrane Formation Through X-ray Scattering” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Zofchak, Everett S., Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Venkat Ganesan, and BennyD. Freeman, “Mixed Salt Partitioning in Model Poly(ethylene oxide)-based Membrane Materials” (Poster presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Zofchak, Everett S., Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Venkat Ganesan, and Benny D. Freeman, “Understanding Mixed Salt Partitioning in Model Poly(ethyleneoxide)-based Membrane Materials” (Oral presentation), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.

• Freeman, Benny D., Glenn Lipscomb (University of Toledo), and Tim Merkel (MTR Inc.), “Membrane-based Gas Separation” (Workshop), North American Membrane Society's 33rd Annual Meeting: Membranes for Decarbonization, 2024 May 11-15.
   

Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2024 June 3

• Freeman, Benny D., “Ion Solubility, Diffusivity, and Transport in ChargedPolymer Membranes for Water Purification" (Invited Lecture), Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering, 2024 June 3.

Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC) Workshop, Sweden, 2024 June 18

• Freeman, Benny D., “Cellulose Acetate Membranes Demonstrate Exceptional Monovalent/Divalent Cation Selectivities” (Invited Lecture), Wallenberg Wood Science Center (WWSC) Workshop - Sweden, 2024 June 18.

The 3rd International Conference on Carbon Capture Science & Technology, 2024 July 20-22

• Chamoun-Farah, Antoine, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, “Amine Functionalized Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes (SILMs) for CO2/N2Separation” (Plenary Lecture), The 3rd International Conference on Carbon Capture Science & Technology, 2024 July 20-22.

Gordon Research Conference on Membranes: Materials and Processes, 2024 July 28

• Reimund, Kevin K., Rahul Sujanani, and Benny D. Freeman, “Emerging Basic Science Questions Regarding Water Transport in Polymers for Water Purification, Resource Recovery, and Energy Applications” (Plenary Lecture), Gordon Research Conference on Membranes: Materials and Processes, 2024 July 28.

Fiscal Year 2022-2023

Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Chemical Separations 2022 - 2022 October 1-5

• Davenport, Matthew N., S. S. Park, T. Song, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, "Hydrogen Sulfide and Acetylene Tolerance of H2-stable Ag+-based Facilitated Transport Membranes". (Poster presentation)

James R. Fair Process Science and Technology Center (PSTC), UT Austin, Austin, Texas - 2022 November 9

• Davenport, Matthew N., S. S. Park, T. Song, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman “Hydrogen Sulfide and Acetylene Tolerance of Hydrogen-stable Ag+-based Facilitated Transport Membranes”.

• Marioni, Nico, "Impact of Ion-Ion Correlated Motion on Salt Transport in Solvated Ion Exchange Membranes".

• Quigley, Aubrey, "Lithium recovery using selective cation exchange membranes in bipolar electrodialysis".

• Richardson, Julian, “Gas Transport Properties of Poly(benzimidazole) for High Temperature H2 Separations".

• Wamble, Noah "Fabrication of Robust, Isoporous Membranes for Ultrafiltration using an ABAC Tetrablock Polymer".

Biannual Meeting, Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources - 2022 October 18

• Davenport, Matthew N., C. L. Bentley, T. Song, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, "Hydrogen Sulfide and Acetylene Tolerance of H2-stable Ag+-based Facilitated Transport Membranes". (CISTAR NSF Perfect Pitch Competition – 1st place) (Oral presentation)

• Davenport, Matthew N., C. L. Bentley, T. Song, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, "Hydrogen Sulfide and Acetylene Tolerance of H2-stable Ag+-based Facilitated Transport Membranes". (Poster Presentation Competition – 2nd place)

AIChE, Polymer Synthesis and Reaction Engineering, Phoenix, Arizona - 2022 November 14-16

• Rivers, Frederick, Matthew Landsman, Benjamin Pedretti, Nathaniel Lynd, Benny Freeman, Lynn Katz, and Desmond Lawler, "Modular Synthesis of Functional Membranes: Boric Acid Removal from Wastewater". (oral presentation)

• Allen, Marshall J., Hsu-Ming Lien, Nathaniel Prine, Carter Burns, Adrian Rylski, Xiaodan Gu, Filippo Mangolini, Lewis Cox, Benny Freeman, and Zachariah Page, "Micro to Macro: tunable mechanical properties in multimorphic interpenetrating polymer networks via orthogonal polymerization". (Oral presentation)

11th International Membrane Science and Technology Conference (IMSTEC), Melbourne, Australia - 2022 December 6

• Davenport, Matthew N., C. L. Bentley, T. Song, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, "Ethylene and ethane transport properties of hydrogen-stable Ag+-based facilitated transport membranes". (Poster presentation)

• Richardson, Julian M. and Benny D Freeman, "Influence of Novel Processing Techniques on Poly(benzimidazole) Gas Separation Membranes". (Poster presentation)

AMTA/AWWA Membrane Technology Conference (MTC), Knoxville, TN - 2023 February 21

• Quigley, Aubrey E., Kevin Reimund, Benjamin Pedretti, Kristofer Gleason, Angelo Kirchon, George Gu, Jongwook Mah, Amit Patwardhan, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny Freeman, "Lithium Brine Purification and Electrochemical Conversion via Selective Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis" (oral presentation)

• Quigley, Aubrey, Kevin Reimund, Benjamin Pedretti, Kristofer Gleason, Angelo Kirchon, George Gu, Jongwook Mah, Amit Patwardhan, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny Freeman, "Lithium Brine Purification and Electrochemical Conversion via Selective Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis" (poster presentation)

American Physical Society (APS), Las Vegas, Nevada - 2023 March 4-6

• Freeman, Benny D., "Overview of Polymer Membranes for Water Purification and Gas Separation". (Workshop, DPoly Shortcourse: The Polymer Physics of Separation Membranes)

• Irving, Paul R., Kevin K Reimund, Everett S Zofchak, Nico Marioni, Harnoor S Sachar, Zidan Zhang, Benny D Freeman, and Venkatraghavan Ganesan, "Monovalent Ion Selectivity of Cellulose Acetate Membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Everett Zofchak, Harnoor Sachar, Sanket Kadulkar, Benny Freeman, Venkat Ganesan, "Impact of dynamical correlations on salt transport in solvated ion exchange membranes". (oral presentation)

• Reimund, Kevin K., Aubrey E. Quigley, Benjamin J. Pedretti, Kristofer P. Gleason, Angelo Kirchon, George Gu, Jongwook Mah, Amit Patwardan, Nathaniel A. Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, "Lithium Extraction from Brine Using Membrane-based Bipolar Electrodialysis". (Oral presentation)

• Zofchak, Everett, Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Adit Trivedi, Venkat Ganesan, and Benny D. Freeman, "Alkali halide salt partitioning in PEGDA membranes under mixed salt conditions". (Oral presentation)

• Zofchak, Everett, Nico Marioni, Zidan Zhang, Sanket Kadulkar, Harnoor S. Sachar, Venkat Ganesan, and Benny D. Freeman, "Cation-polymer interactions and local heterogeneity govern the relative order of alkali cation diffusion coefficients in PEGDA hydrogels". (Poster presentation)

Graduate and Industry Networking (GAIN), UT Austin, Austin, Texas - 2023 March 21

• Allen, Marshall J., Hsu-Ming Lien, Nathaniel Prine, Carter Burns, Adrian Rylski, Xiaodan Gu, Filippo Mangolini, Lewis Cox, Benny D. Freeman, and Zachariah A. Page, "Multimorphic Patterning of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks". (Poster presentation)

North American Membrane Society (NAMS): A New Era of Sustainable Membrane Innovation, 2023 May 13-17

• Richardson, Julian M. and Benny D Freeman, "Influence of Novel Processing Techniques on Poly(benzimidazole) Gas Separation Membranes". (Poster presentation)

• Davenport, Matthew N., T. Song, C. L. Bentley, T. McClung, C. M. Doherty, Joan F. Brennecke, and Benny D. Freeman, "Hydrogen sulfide and acetylene stability and the effect of AgTf2N concentration on fractional free volume of hydrogen-stable Ag+-based facilitated transport membranes". (Poster presentation)

• Irving, Paul R., Kevin Reimund, Everett S Zofchak, Nico Marioni, Benny Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Monovalent Ion Selectivity of Cellulose Acetate Membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Joshua D Moon, Oscar Nordness, Peter Richardson, Rahul Sujanani, Raphaële Clément, Benny Freeman, Rachel Segalman, and Craig Hawker, "Versatile synthetic platform using click chemistry to study water and ion transport in post-functionalized membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Reimund, Kevin, Rahul Sujanani, Jorge Hernandez, Kristofer Gleason, Manish Kumar, and Benny Freeman, "Pressure induced diffusion of solvents in dense homogeneous membranes". (Poster presentation)

• Reimund, Kevin, Rahul Sujanani, Jorge Hernandez, Kristofer Gleason, Manish Kumar, and Benny Freeman, "Pressure-induced diffusion of solvents in dense homogeneous membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Tilton, NIls, Jacob Johnston, Sarah Dischinger, Mostafa Nassr, Ji Yeon Li, Sergi Molins, Nicolas Spycher, Benny Freeman, William Stringfellow, Daniel Miller, and Kristofer Gleason, "A new approach to simulating concentration polarization in reverse osmosis systems with feed spacers". (Oral presentation)

• Van Havere, Daan, Rhea Verbeke, Benny Freeman, and Ivo Vankelecom, "Interfacial poly(epoxyether) membranes, a versatile thin-film synthesis platform for carbon capture membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Van Havere, Daan, Rhea Verbeke, Benny Freeman, and Ivo Vankelecom, "Interfacial poly(epoxyether) membranes, a versatile thin-film synthesis platform for carbon capture membranes". (Poster presentation)

• Freeman, Benny D., G. Glenn Lipscomb, Tim Merkel, "Membrane-based Gas Separations". (Workshop)

• Quigley, Aubrey E., Kevin Reimund, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny Freeman, "Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis for Direct LiOH Production from Concentrated Brine." (Oral presentation)

• Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Harnoor Sachar, Benny Freeman, Venkat Ganesan, "Impact of dynamical correlations on salt transport in solvated ion exchange membranes". (poster presentation)

• Quigley, Aubrey E., Kevin Reimund, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny Freeman, "Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis for Direct LiOH Production from Concentrated Brine." (Poster presentation)

• Irving, Paul R, Kevin K Reimund, Everett S Zofchak, Nico Marioni, Benny D Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Monovalent Ion Selectivity of Cellulose Acetate Membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Harnoor Sachar, Benny Freeman, Venkat Ganesan, "Impact of dynamical correlations on salt transport in solvated ion exchange membranes". (oral presentation)

• Zofchak, Everett, Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Nathaniel Lynd, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Understanding mixed salt partitioning in model poly(ethylene oxide)-based membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Zofchak, Everett, Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Nathaniel Lynd, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Understanding mixed salt partitioning in model poly(ethylene oxide)-based membranes". (Poster presentation)

Elsevier Frontiers in Polymer Science Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2023 May 29 to June 1

• Freeman, Benny D., "Polymer technology for societal energy and environmental challenges". (Oral presentation)

13th International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes (ICOM), Chiba, Japan - 2023 July 10-14

• Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Harnoor Sachar, Benny Freeman, Venkat Ganesan, "Impact of correlated ion-ion motions on salt transport in ion exchange membranes". (poster presentation)

• Richardson, Julian M., Benjamin I. Howard, Laura Murdock, Cara Doherty, Brian C. Benicewicz, Benny D. Freeman, "The effects of physical aging and plasticization on novel poly(benzimidazole) gas separation membranes for pre-combustion carbon capture". (Oral presentation)

• Wamble, Noah, Ben Pedretti, Mostafa Nassr, Adam Mann, Louise Kuehster, Matthew Landsman, Christian De La Fuente, Louise Canada, Glenn Fredrickson, Gregory Su, Gabriel Sanoja, Joan Brennecke, Nathaniel Lynd, and Benny D. Freeman, "Synthesis and Fabrication of Mechanically Robust and Mesoporous ABAC Tetrablock polymer membranes for Ultrafiltration." (oral presentation)

• Zofchak, Everett, Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Nathaniel Lynd, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Understanding mixed salt partitioning in model poly(ethylene oxide)-based membranes". (Oral presentation)

• Zofchak, Everett, Aubrey Quigley, Jordyn Yoh, Nathaniel Lynd, Benny D. Freeman, and Venkat Ganesan, "Understanding mixed salt partitioning in model poly(ethylene oxide)-based membranes". (Poster presentation)

• Freeman, Benny D., "Emerging Basic Science Questions Regarding Ion Transport in Polymers for Water Purification and Resource Recovery". (Oral presentation)

• Freeman, Benny D., "Emerging Basic Science Questions Regarding Water and Ion Transport in Polymers for Water Purification and Resource Recovery". (Plenary Speaker)

• Marioni, Nico, Akhila Rajesh, Zidan Zhang, Harnoor Sachar, Benny Freeman, Venkat Ganesan, "Impact of ion-ion correlated motion on salt transport in ion exchange membranes". (oral presentation)

• Rosenthal, Justin J., Joan F. Brennecke, Benny D. Freeman, "Improving the stability of supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) for the fractionation of light paraffins".

Goldschmidt Conference, Lyon, France - 2023 July 13

• Molins, Sergi, Nicolas F. Spycher, Mostafa Nassr, Jacob Johnston, Kristofer Gleason, William Stringfellow, Sarah M. Dischinger, Ji Yeon Lee, Nils Tilton, Benny D. Freeman, and Daniel J. Miller. (oral presentation)

DOE EFRC M-WET Meeting - 2023 July 19

• Freeman, Benny D., "Fundamental Membrane Science Research Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus". (Oral presentation)

Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea - 2023 July 19

• Freeman, Benny D., "Fundamental Membrane Science Research Addressing the Water-Energy Nexus." (Oral presentation)

Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) - 2023 July 18

• Park, Jaesung, Matthew Hill, Roujing Hou, and Benny D. Freeman, “Advanced Nanocomposite Membranes for Natural Gas Purification". (Oral presentation)

American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring Meeting, Indianapolis Indiana - 2023 August 13

• Allen, Marshall J., Hsu-Ming Lien, Nathaniel Prine, Carter Burns, Adrian Rylski, Xiaodan Gu, Filippo Mangolini, Lewis Cox, Benny D. Freeman, and Zachariah A. Page, "Spatial control over mechanical properties of polymer networks from single resin feedstocks". (Oral presentation)