Advancing Materials for Membrane Technologies 2019
Abstract
This conference will bring together science and engineering leaders from across the broad fields of materials and membranes. Scientific advances in the materials employed as membranes will impact both established and emerging technologies including biological molecule detection in hostile environments, energy storage for portable or stationary power, energy conversion via fuel cells, separations of biological molecules for therapeutics, water purification, water desalination, and gas phase detection systems. As this list exemplifies, membrane science is critical for technologies impacting the medical, energy, infrastructure, water, safety, and security sectors. The goal of the conference is to highlight the latest advances in materials science that enable membrane technologies. Participants in this invitation-only conference will identify the most cutting-edge advances in synthetic routes, formulations, preparative techniques, characterization tools, device prototyping, and optimal/machine learning methods related to the most innovative designs of novel membrane materials. The conference will encompass a wide range of advanced materials: porous metallic and hybrid materials, hierarchical polymer membranes, nanocomposites materials, and inorganic scaffolds. To accelerate progress and improve predictability of performance outcomes, computational and artificial intelligence methods will be included to address materials design, process development, and device evaluation. The program will include oral presentations by all the participants. The invited participants will be established and emerging leaders in the field and include chemists, materials scientists, and chemical engineers who are employing experimental and theoretical/computational methods. Furthermore, the workshop will mix these leaders in materials science with experts in technologies that need improved membrane materials. By combining these expertise into one workshop, the technological needs will highlight the remaining gaps in the fundamental science of transport in advanced materials, and in so doing power rapid scientific breakthroughs that will rapidly and efficiently translate into valuable innovations. To ensure the most exciting outcomes, a diverse array of highly-engaged participants will be invited. The schedule of oral presentations will allow extensive exchange of ideas and a stimulating environment for all participants. Moreover, participants will be instructed to identify the key materials issues in membranes. The schedule will be arranged to maximize the mingling of ideas between the chemical, materials and biological science disciplines. We believe this blending of people interested in the mechanisms underlying transport in advanced membranes, will provide for an enlightening and vibrant multi-day conference (1.75 days).
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Sep 04, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1910458
Entities
People
- Karen I Winey
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of Pennsylvania