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Check out our publication in @J_Membrane_Sci in collaboration with @YanXiaLab: “Ultra-selective CANAL polymers for hydrogen-based membrane separations after long-term aging” sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Check out our recent publication in Advanced Energy Materials, a study led by Prof. Tackett and Hwiyoon Noh at Purdue University: “Structural tuning of self-conductive polymer as gas diffusion layer for electrocatalytic reactions at high current”. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…

Structural Tuning of Self‐Conductive Polymer as Gas Diffusion Layer for Electrocatalytic Reactions...

A self-conductive, all-polymer, hydrophobic gas diffusion layer is prepared by electropolymerizing a porous poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) layer onto a porous polytetrafluorethylene...

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Check out our recent publication in Advanced Materials: “Solution‐processable, ladder‐branched polyimides of intrinsic microporosity by [4 4] cycloaddition for membrane gas separation” advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…

Solution‐Processable, Ladder‐Branched Polyimides of Intrinsic Microporosity by [4 4] Cycloaddition...

An effective post-synthetic modification strategy utilizing [4 4] cycloaddition is demonstrated to fabricate ladder-branched polyimides of intrinsic microporosity (PIM-PIs) with significantly...

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Congratulations to graduate students Tom Goodwin and Yein Yoon for being awarded poster prizes at the Imagine Membranes conference in Portugal last week!
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Congratulations to Dr. Ben Pedretti for being named a PMSE Future Faculty Scholar! Ben’s work will be featured at the PMSE Future Faculty Symposium at the ACS Fall meeting this week. pmsedivision.org/pmse-future…
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Meet the future of #polymer #science! 🔬 Future Faculty Symposium [Hall D] Mon 8/18 | 8-11:20 AM & 2-5:20 PM | Room 4 Tue 8/19 | 8-11:00 AM | Room 5 🤩 Early Investigator Symposium [Hall D] Tue 8/19 | 2-5:40 PM | Room 5 Wed 8/20 | 8-11:40 AM & 2-5:40 PM | Room 3 #Awards #PMSE
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Congratulations to Smith Lab graduate student Brandon Tapia on being selected for a MathWorks Fellowship! Brandon is leading various computational efforts for the group, and we are proud of this recognition of his work.
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Check out our new publication in @J_Membrane_Sci: “Investigating the effect of water vapor on CO2/CH4 separations in primary- and hindered-amine-functional microporous polymers” sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Special thanks to Kris Gleason, who helped build the humidified mixed-gas permeation system for this study!
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Congratulations to our first-year graduate student, Brandon Tapia, for passing his qualifying exam for the Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)!
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Perspective in @ScienceMagazine on thin-film composite membranes for organic solvent reverse osmosis doi.org/10.1126/science.ady1…
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MIT researchers have developed a new way to separate crude oil components using much less energy than traditional methods. This could revolutionize how fuels and chemicals are made. news.mit.edu/2025/new-approa…

A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy

MIT engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.

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We are excited to share our most recent publication in @ScienceMagazine in collaboration with the Pinnau group at KAUST: “Microporous polyimine membranes for efficient separation of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures” science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Microporous polyimine membranes for efficient separation of liquid hydrocarbon mixtures

Interfacial polymerization has been an industrial standard for preparing desalination membranes. Extending the same concept to molecular separation of organic solvents would be a key enabler for the...

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This work was highlighted by @BuddProf in @ScienceMagazine here: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

A refinery in a thin film

A thin polymer membrane can separate industrial organic solvent mixtures through reverse osmosis

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This work was also highlighted by MIT News! You can read more about it here: news.mit.edu/2025/new-approa…

A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energy

MIT engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil fractionation.

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Check out our most recent publication in @J_Membrane_Sci in collaboration with the Vasenkov Group at Univ. of Florida: “Macroscopic and Microscopic Gas Diffusivity Measurements for PIM-COOH/UiO-66-NH2 Composite Membranes" sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Check out our most recent publication in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research @ACSPublications: “MOF Instability and Polymer Infiltration in Amine-Functionalized UiO MOFs/PIM-COOH-Based MMMs for Solvent-Based Separations” pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

MOF Instability and Polymer Infiltration in Amine-Functionalized UiO MOFs/PIM-COOH-Based MMMs for...

Organic solvent-based separations with membranes hold promise for reducing the energy demands of traditional thermally driven processes. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by the limited...

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Congratulations to Dr. Jing Ying Yeo, who successfully defended her thesis “Understanding the Role of Free Volume in Microporous Polymers for Membrane-based Gas Separations” earlier this month! Jing Ying will begin work as a Senior Research Specialist at Dow later this year.
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Congratulations to Dr. Pablo Dean, who successfully defended his thesis “Leveraging Competitive Sorption in Microporous Polymer Membranes to Enhance Gas Separation Performance” at the end of April. We cannot wait to see what he accomplishes next!
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Check out our most recent publication in @J_Membrane_Sci in collaboration with @YanXiaLab: “Investigation of competitive sorption and plasticization of hyperaged CANAL ladder polymers for acid gas purification" sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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We are happy to share a short-term free access link to the above article: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ksNT…
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