(277g) Realisation of the Potential of Practical Graphene Oxide Membranes for Molecular Separations
AIChE Annual Meeting
2022
2022 Annual Meeting
Separations Division
Honorary Session for Prof. Suzana Nunes II
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 - 9:40am to 10:00am
Membrane-based separation technologies have many advantages over traditional separation methods such as adsorption, and distillation in terms of energy- and cost-efficiency and modular deployment of technology. In practice, these advantages can be meaningfully harnessed only if advanced membranes with properties such as high permeance, tailorable selectivity [1-2], chlorine, pH and solvent resistance [3-4], low-fouling characteristics [1], long-term stability under operational conditions [5,6] alongside green and sustainable manufacturability [6] are demonstrated. In the last 5-6 years, our research group has taken rapid strides to realise these properties in membranes made from graphene-oxide. In this talk, I will summarize this journey reflecting on our work including some aspects of translation to industry and future directions.
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