- NAMS 2024 Poster Awards
- Matthew Davenport: 1st Place in the Materials category, “Hydrogen acetylene-stable silver ion facilitated transport membranes: the effect of salt concentration on fractional free volume and gas permeability”
- Kevin Reimund: 1st Place in the Modeling category, “Evidence for solution-diffusion in pressure-induced transport of solvent through dense polymer membranes”
- Noah Wamble: 2nd Place in the Modeling category, “Understanding the mechanism of additive-assisted isoporous membrane formation through X-ray scattering”
- Nico Marioni: 3rd Place in the Modeling category, “Ion and water dynamics in the transition from dry to wet conditions in salt-doped PEG”
- Justin Rosenthal: 3rd Place in the Materials category, “Random Poly(1,3-dioxolane)-based Terpolymers for CO2 Separations”
- Suzana Ivandic: Ties for 3rd Place in the Modeling category, “Insights into methods of determining selectivity of porous ultrafiltration membranes”
- Young Membrane Scientist
- Joshua D. Moon, former Freeman group member, received the NAMS 2024 Young Membrane Scientist Award.
Noah Wamble is selected to receive the U.S. DOE SCGSR Award
Noah Phillips Wamble “has been selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award in response to the SCGSR 2023 Solicitation 2.
“The award is for the proposed SCGSR research project, ‘Operando and in situ synchrotron x-ray scattering and spectroscopy to fundamentally understand the formation mechanism of tetrablock isoporous membranes’, to be conducted at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).”
“The selection of Noah Phillips Wamble for the SCGSR award is in recognition of outstanding academic accomplishments and the merit of the SCGSR research proposal, and reflects Noah Phillips Wamble’s potential to advance the Ph.D. studies and make important contributions to the mission of the DOE Office of Science.”
Hee Jeung Oh has been Elected to the NAMS Board of Directors
Alumnus Hee Jeung Oh has been elected to The North American Membrane Society Board of Directors.
The NAMS “mission is to serve the synthetic membrane community by fostering the development and dissemination of knowledge in membrane science and technology, and by promoting the collaborative efforts of researchers, technologists and end-users.”
Antoine Chamoun-Farah Wins First Place in the UT Energy Week 2024 Poster Session
Antoine Chamoun-Farah Wins First Place in the UT Energy Week Poster Session with his poster entitled, “Amine Functionalized Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes (SILMs) for CO2/N2 Separation”.
“UT Energy Week connects students, researchers, faculty, energy professionals, and industry leaders across disciplines and sectors to build community, support energy literacy and education, facilitate strategic partnerships, and advance research.”
Antoine Chamoun-Farah wins Second Place
Antoine Chamoun-Farah wins second place in the Graduate Oral Competition at this year’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) National Convention.
Benny D. Freeman – AIChE Braskem Award for Excellence in Materials Engineering and Science
Benny D. Freeman will be presented with the AIChE Division Award for Excellence in Materials Engineering and Science at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting in November.
This award is Administered by the Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD).
