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…
Congratulations to graduate students Tom Goodwin and Yein Yoon for being awarded poster prizes at the Imagine Membranes conference in Portugal last week!
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.
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…
Congratulations to our first-year graduate student, Brandon Tapia, for passing his qualifying exam for the Program in Polymers and Soft Matter (PPSM)!
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…
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…
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…
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.
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!
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…
Check out our recent publication in collaboration with @SwagerGroup in Journal of Materials Chemistry A: “Enhancing acid-gas separations using free volume manipulation for microporous poly(arylene ether)s” doi.org/10.1039/D4TA07738E
Congratulations to Dr. Taehoon Lee on being named a 2025 NAMS Young Membrane Scientist recipient! As a postdoc, Taehoon has made significant contributions to the Smith Lab. He will soon start his faculty career at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Korea.
Check out our most recent publication in @MacroJrnls_ACS #Macromolecules with Prof. Park’s group at Hanyang University: “Anomalous Structural Changes and Gas Transport Properties in Ultrathin Films of Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity” pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
Check out our most recent publication in @ACS_AMI in collaboration with @KulikGroup: “Data-driven Screening and Discovery of Metal-organic Frameworks as C2 Adsorbents from Over 900 Experimental Isotherms” pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Check out our most recent publication in @MacroJrnls_ACS #Macromolecules: High-Selectivity CO2 Mixture Separations by a Guanylated Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIM-G) Membrane pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021…
Check out our most recent publication in collaboration with @SwagerGroup in @JACS_Au: "Tertiary-Amine-Functional Poly(arylene ether)s for Acid-Gas Separations" pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Congratulations to Dr. Wan-Ni Wu on a successful thesis defense: “Microporous Polymer-Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Hybrid Materials for Separations”. Wan-Ni has made significant contributions since joining the group in 2019. We wish her the best in her next chapter at Entegris!
Check out our latest publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A: “Fine-tuning ultramicroporosity in PIM-1 membranes by aldehyde functionalization for efficient hydrogen separation” pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
Check out our latest publication in @ScienceAdvances: “Dual-phase microporous polymer nanofilms by interfacial polymerization for ultrafast molecular separation” science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
