Symposium SM7-Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations

Membrane technology has been implemented in many fields as energy-saving and sustainable process. Water in great part of the world is provided by seawater desalination using reverse osmosis membrane plants. Other applications such as the industrial recovery of valuable products or water treatment in harsh environments, challenging separations of solutes with similar size could be successfully promoted if better membrane materials would be available. This symposium will be dedicated to material developments in this field, covering new polymers and copolymers, multilayer coatings, organic-inorganic composites, surface functionalization, morphology control in porous materials for membranes. The open challenges in the field will be discussed, identifying new directions and needs for material development.

• New copolymer synthesis and functionalization for membranes
• Block copolymer membranes
• Biomimetic and bioinspired materials and separations
• Membranes with incorporated catalytic materials
• Materials for industrial separations in harsh environments
• Membranes as functional battery separators
• 2D Layered materials for membranes (e. g. graphene and analogues)
• Membranes from intrinsic porous materials (zeolites, metal-organic frameworks, covalent-organic frameworks, porous organic polymer, porous molecular solids)
• Green solvents and polymers for sustainable membrane manufacture
• Surface functionalization and nanostructuration for fouling reduction
• Membranes for recovery of valuable products in biotechnology, mining and chemical industry

• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _0 (Masdar, United Arab Emirates)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _1 (Tufts University, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _2 (University of Kentucky, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _3 (University of Bologna, Italy)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _4 (Chung Yuan Unversity, Taiwan)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _5 (University Nova Lisboa, Portugal)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _6 (University Oxford, United Kingdom)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _7 (Deakin University, Australia)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _8 (ITM-CNR, Italy)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _9 (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _10 (ITM-CNR, Italy)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _11 (CSIRO, Australia)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _12 (Nanjin University, China)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _13 (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _14 (University of Arizona, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _15 (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _16 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _17 (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _18 (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _19 (University of Notre Dame, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _20 (University of Bologna, Italy)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _21 (University of Basque Country, Spain)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _22 (University of Arizona, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _23 (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
• SM7_Emerging Membrane Materials for Sustainable Separations _24 (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)