报告题目：Membranes for Energy-Efficient Separations
报告人：Prof. Zachary P. Smith
报告时间：2018年1月10日上午 10:00-11:00
报告地点：材料学院 6# A502
联系人：孟建强教授
报告人简介：
Zachary P. Smith是美国麻省理工学院(MIT)化学工程系Assistant Professor和Joseph R. Mares职业发展协会主席。2014年毕业于德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校获得化学工程专业博士学位；2014-2016年加州大学伯克利分校无机化学系做博士后；2016-今MIT化学工程系Assistant Professor。Smith教授的研究重点是聚合物和多孔材料的合理设计，合成和表征，用于与节能分离相关的清洁技术应用。曾在Nature Materials，Angewandte Chemie International Edition，Journal of Materials Chemistry A等著名期刊发表高水平论文30余篇.
欢迎广大师生踊跃参加！
分离膜与膜过程国家重点实验室
分离膜科技国家级国际联合研究中心
材料科学与工程学院
报告内容:
The chemical and petrochemical industries consume nearly 30% of global energy use, nearly half of which is a result of chemical separations.A major opportunity exists in identifying more efficient, productive, and environmentally friendly processes that operate in a continuous fashion.One attractive possibility is membrane-based separations, but significant materials challenges exist in designing membranes that can selectively distinguish between molecules with sub-angstrom differences in size and nearly identical thermodynamic properties.To survey these challenges and describe emerging opportunities, a brief overview of the current state-of-the-art in membrane-based materials and applications will be presented.Next, design strategies will be presented for overcoming current materials limitations by using new polymers and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that have unprecedented solubility and diffusion selectivities.Using a combination of techniques from chemical synthesis, materials characterization, and transport characterization, the aim of this presentation is to highlight the exciting interdisciplinary opportunities for scientists and engineers to tackle global.