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Featured Content: Book Release

The Szekely Group

Edited by Andrew Livingston and Gyorgy Szekely, the book titled Sustainable Nanoscale Engineering: From Materials Design to Chemical Processing has recently been published. The book presents the latest on the design of nanoscale materials and their applications in sustainable chemical production processes. The newest achievements of materials science, in particular nanomaterials, opened new opportunities for chemical engineers to design more efficient, safe, compact and environmentally benign processes.

 

Featured Content: Follow us at PERMEA2019

The Szekely Group

Join us at the PERMEA 2019 – Membrane Conference of Visegrad Countries, which will be held from August 26-29, 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. The keynote lecture on ‘Toward Sustainable Organic Solvent Nanofiltration Membranes & Processes’ will cover our research at UoM and KAUST on the potential of biophenols, bamboo fibers, interpenetrating polymer networks and ion-stabilization for achieving high-performance nanofiltration membranes. You can read more about some of these published works in ACS Applied Polymer Materials, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and ACS Nano.

Featured Content: Follow as at iSAMN2019

The Szekely Group

Join us at the 3rd International Symposium On Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (iSAMN2019), which will be held from August 19-20, 2019 in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The keynote lecture on ‘Nanoengineered Membranes for Advanced Separations in Organic Media’ will cover our research at UoM and KAUST on the potential of biophenols, bamboo fibers, interpenetrating polymer networks and ion-stabilization for achieving high-performance nanofiltration membranes. You can read more about some of these published works in ACS Applied Polymer Materials, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and ACS Nano.

Featured Content: Follow us at EMS Summer School 2019 in Edinburgh

The Szekely Group
Join us at the European Membrane Society’s 36th Summer School, 23-28 June 2019, hosted by The University of Edinburgh. This year’s theme is Membranes for a Sustainable Future. The invited lecture’s title is ‘Nanofiltration-Enabled Green Process Engineering’. Our latest research on nanofiltration-enhanced homogeneous and heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis will be covered. You can read more about some of these published works in the ACS Catalysis, ChemSusChem and Journal of Catalysis journals.

Featured Content: Front cover for ACS-SCE

The Szekely Group

Check out our new article on process intensification via continuous and simultaneous isolation of antioxidants as an upcycling approach for olive leaf waste featured on the front cover of the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering journal by ACS. The work was done in collaboration with Prof Drioli from ITM-CNR, and Dr Fonte from Manchester.

 

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

For the illustration the credit goes to Xavier Pita scientific illustrator at KAUST.

Featured Content: Congratulations to Levente & Hai Anh for their recent Awards!

The Szekely Group

Congratulations to Hai Anh Le Phuong and Levente Cseri for their European Membrane Society Travel Awards! The European Membrane Society provided three awards for PhD students to support their travel to the PERMEA 2019 conference. Out of the three, two were awarded to members of the Szekely Group as a result of successful applications by Hai Anh and Levente. Hai Anh is set to give an oral presentation entitled “Nature-inspired membrane supports for organic solvent nanofiltration” (read more here) while also presenting a poster on “Bio-inspired membranes for improved performance and solvent resistance”. Levente will give a talk titled “Boosting the permselectivity: GO nanocomposite anion exchange membranes for electrodialysis” (read more here) and present a poster on “Organic solvent nanofiltration for sustainable organocatalysis”.