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SUMMARY:Membrane Technologies Toward Resolving the Energy-Water Nexus - Pr
 ofessor Easan Sivaniah\, Kyoto University
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CONTACT:Stuart Higgins
DESCRIPTION:Energy and water are key geopolitical issues.  Separately the 
 issues are well known\; The search for new sources of energy\, that have l
 ess impact on environmental climate change\; Equally\, identifying ways to
  mitigate the effects of rapid consumption and pollution of a diminishing 
 resource\, potable fresh water.  Less well known is the connectivity of th
 ese two issues\, which is simply related to the fact that it requires ener
 gy to generate clean water\, and a significant amount of fresh water is re
 quired for non-drinking purposes.\n\nI will be discussing the possibilitie
 s\, and practicalities of future membrane technologies to address both the
  issue of water and energy-related emissions\, giving a broad overview of 
 the basics of the field of membrane technology whilst highlighting recent 
 work in our own group\, in the development of high performance polymeric  
 and nanocomposite membranes. \n\nBrief Resume.\n\nUntil 2013\, Dr. Sivania
 h (MEng\, Imperial College\, PhD Cambridge University) led a research grou
 p at the Cavendish Laboratory\, Cambridge University.  Currently he is ass
 ociate Professor at iCeMS (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences
  (iCeMS)\, Kyoto University.  His research group presently focuses on deve
 lopment of membrane technologies using fundamental physical principles and
  novel materials chemistry.  Dr. Sivaniah also participates in translation
 \, by establishing a fluid interface to scale-up and commercial enterprise
 .\n\nRelevant publications.\n\nSong et al. Controlled thermal oxidative cr
 osslinking of polymers of intrinsic microporsity for tunable molecular sie
 ve membranes\, Nature Communications. 5\, Article number: 4813 (2014)\n\nS
 ong et al.  Photo-oxidative enhancement of polymeric molecular sieve membr
 anes. Nature Communications. 4\, Article number: 1918 (2013).\n\nZavala-Ri
 vera et al. ‘Collective osmotic shock in ordered materials’ Nature Mat
 erials 11\, p.53 (2012)\n
LOCATION:Kapitza Building Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department
  of Physics
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