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    Michele Galizia received a grant from the US Department of Energy to create improved polymer membranes for molecular separation using less energy intensive methods. Her team will develop membranes using simulations and theories from chemistry and physics to fabricate polymers for separation processes like carbon dioxide removal from natural gas. The new membranes aim to reduce energy usage for separation by 1,000 times compared to traditional distillation methods. The research also seeks to train future materials scientists.

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    Michele Galizia received a grant from the US Department of Energy to create improved polymer membranes for molecular separation using less energy intensive methods. Her team will develop membranes using simulations and theories from chemistry and physics to fabricate polymers for separation processes like carbon dioxide removal from natural gas. The new membranes aim to reduce energy usage for separation by 1,000 times compared to traditional distillation methods. The research also seeks to train future materials scientists.

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    Michele Galizia received a grant from the US Department of Energy to create improved polymer membranes for molecular separation using less energy intensive methods. Her team will develop membranes using simulations and theories from chemistry and physics to fabricate polymers for separation processes like carbon dioxide removal from natural gas. The new membranes aim to reduce energy usage for separation by 1,000 times compared to traditional distillation methods. The research also seeks to train future materials scientists.

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    Improved Polymer Membranes For Sustainable Materials Science

    Improved Polymer Membranes For


    Sustainable Materials Science
    Reviewed by Megan Craig, M.Sc. Nov 29 2023

    Leading a research team that recently received a grant from the US Department of
    Energy, Michele Galizia, a President’s Associates Presidential Professor in the
    School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering at the
    University of Oklahoma, will create better polymer membranes to help with molecular
    separation and related materials science.

    Researchers fabricate polymers for use in this project. Image Credit: The University of
    Oklahoma

    “ We currently separate chemicals, gases, and liquids using a thermal-based


    distillation technology that is very expensive to operate and consumes the
    equivalent of eight GJ of electricity per person on the planet per year. So,
    our goal is to develop next-generation devices for large-scale gas
    separation using polymer membranes instead of distillation. These
    membranes must exhibit adequate long-term stability of at least three years
    if we want to make these processes feasible and profitable.

    Michele Galizia, President’s Associates Presidential Professor, School of


    Sustainable Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of
    Oklahoma

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    Galizia collaborates with Marco Buongiorno Nardelli at the University of North Texas and
    Alberto Striolo at the School of Sustainable Chemical, Biological, and Materials
    Engineering. Together, they concentrate on fundamental research, drawing inspiration from
    different domains and using chemistry and physics theories to create superior materials.

    Galizia added, “Our team is leveraging molecular simulations to select the monomers
    needed to make new polymer membranes. These new membranes would use 1,000 times
    less energy to separate mixtures than it would take to distill it.”

    This membrane technology could find applications in a variety of industries, including


    healthcare, aviation, fossil fuels, and more if the researchers are successful.

    “There really is a variety of separations that we could run. These include carbon dioxide
    separation from natural gas, olefine-paraffin separations, hydrogen separation and
    recovery, solvent separation and many others. We just need more selective and durable
    membranes, which is exactly what we want to do in this project,” Galizia stated.

    This interdisciplinary initiative offers a chance to train future materials scientists in addition
    to being in line with the University of Oklahoma’s strategic plan.

    Galizia concluded, “Our job is to educate the next generation workforce and the leaders of
    the future. That is why we are doing this.”

    Source: https://www.ou.edu/web.html

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