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News and Events
- June-July 2007:
- Bruening and Tarabara visit CNRS Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse et l'Environnement de Lyon , meet with Dr. Sylvain Miachon and his group and discuss collaboration on the development of membrane reactors for catalytic membrane processes for water treatment
- Tarabara and Voice visit Kyiv-Mohyla Academy,
Ministry for Environmental Protection of Ukraine,and Institute of Physical Chemistry (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) to plan future visits and submission of joint research proposals
- Hendren, Hotze, Wiesner, Dr. Benjamin Espinasse (Duke), and Dr. Lena Brunet (Duke) visit CEREGE and Toulouse for research meetings with co-advisors (Bottero, Rose, Aimar, Merieles, Cabassud) and planning for the Fall 2007 PERMANT meeting
- May 2007: Merlin Bruening (MSU co-PI) and MSU PERMEANT students David Dotzauer and Lu Ouyang attend the annual meeting of the North American Membrane Society. Dotzauer received a student travel award and Ouyang won a student poster award
- March 2007:
- New project website is developed
- Helen Hsu-Kim (Duke) visits CEREGE to initiate new research and teaching collaboration in the field of spectroscopy and measurement.
- Julian Taurozzi (MSU PERMEANT graduate student) is awarded Nordberg Fellowship by the CEE department in recognition of his research contributions toward his PhD dissertation.
- February 2007: Our recent ES&T paper on nC60 toxicity is #9 on the list of most accessed papers in Oct-Dec 2006
- January 2007: Adam Rogensues (MSU PERMEANT undergraduate reserch associate) is awarded 2007 Michigan Section AWWA Fellowship for Water Quality and Treatment Study. Congratulations to Adam!
- January 2007:
Graduate student David Dotzauer joins the Bruening group at MSU and the PERMEANT team
- November 2006:
Volodymyr Bosak (Kyiv-Mohyla Academy PhD student) visits Tarabara's research group at MSU to participate in research on the development of nanocomposite membranes with biocidal properties
- June - July 2006
- July 2006: Zachary Hendren and Christine Robichaud visited LGC in Toulouse to visit with Beatrice Biscans regarding TiO2 fabrication practices with respect to safety
- July 2006: Visit to UKMA
- Anatoly Burban's group in Kyiv is providing opportunities for filtration of pollutants that are of concern in this country. The expertise of the Ukrainian group in membrane surface modification is leveraged for the development of low fouling membranes.
- June 2006: Visit to Aix-en-Provence
- June 2006: Visit to Toulouse
- The role of international collaboration in the project focuses on several areas including modification of hollow fiber membranes with multilayer polyelectrolyte films, reduction of colloidal fouling using polyelectrolyte-modified membranes, and removal of pollutants from water with novel membranes. The
Interface & Particle Interaction Engineering group of Pierre Aimar at Université Paul Sabatier is providing unique hollow fiber membranes with interior and exterior skin layers that have molecular weight cutoffs suitable for deposition of polyelectrolyte films. Expertise in Aimar's laboratories is also important for modeling of colloidal fouling of modified membranes.
- April 2006: Visit to Toulouse
- Christine Robichaud and Matt Hotze (Duke PERMEANT students) worked at CEREGE for three days, having meetings regarding nanoparticle characterization and risk assessment
- Mark Wiesner (Duke Co-PI) and Jon Brant (Duke) collaborated with Jean-Yves Bottero (CEREGE) and Jerome Rose (CEREGE) on a book writing project with PERMEANT participation and support: Environmental Nanotechnologies (Published May 2007, McGraw Hill)
- January 2006: Tarabara group and Bruening group have received NAMS student internship award for the project “International research internships: Membrane separations for water quality control"
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