Group News January 2021: New paper in ACS ES&TE, examining the role of feed temperature during organic fouling of RO membranes (implications to fouling mitigation, membrane cleaning, and antifouling coatings). December 2020: Sara defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations! August 2019: New paper in ES: Nano Do Graphene Oxide Nanostructured Coatings Mitigate Bacterial Adhesion? Read it here. Open Access. Summer 2019: Santiago delivered oral presentations at NAMS 2019 (Pittsburgh) and the ACS Colloid Symposium (hosted by GA Tech), and a poster presentation at AEESP (hosted by ASU). June 2019: Lab member Karl Wuolo-Journey defends his M. S. thesis. Congratulations, Karl! October 2018: The EPC Lab has moved to the University of Edinburgh in sunny Scotland, UK. We have PhD positions available! Contact Santiago (Santiago [at] ed.ac.uk) if you are interested in joining us. September 2018: Lab member Henry Croll defends his M. S. thesis. Congratulations, Henry! September 2018:
Santiago presented a talk during the 19th Biennial Seminar on Water Resources and Environmental Management, organized by the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. August 2018:
Henry and Adel's paper entitled "Graphene Oxide Surface Modification of Polyamide Reverse Osmosis Membranes for Improved N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) Removal" is accepted for publication in Separation and Purification Technology. Paper available here. May 2018:
Santiago presented an invited seminar entitled "Unraveling Bacterial Adhesion to Aqueous Interfaces" in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London. April 2018:
Santiago presented an invited seminar entitled "Computational and Experimental Studies of Aqueous Interfaces" in the Department of Physics at Hamline University. March 2018: Santiago presented a talk in the Biomaterials & Biointerfaces session at the ACS Spring National Meeting in New Orleans. His talk was entitled "Interaction of bacterial cells with model graphene oxide surfaces: insights from single-cell force spectroscopy". December 2017: Our paper entitled "Bacterial Adhesion to Graphene Oxide (GO)-Functionalized Interfaces is Determined by Hydrophobicity and GO Sheet Spatial Orientation", in collaboration with Ben Stottrup (Augsburg University), is accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology Letters. Paper available here. November 2017:
Sara's paper, elucidating the adhesion mechanism of bacteria on UF membrane surfaces, is accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
Congratulations, Sara! Paper available here. November 2017: Santiago presented an invited talk at the 1st Pan American Congress of Nanotechnology in Guarujá, Brazil. October 2017: Sara, Adel and Santiago contribute presentations to the 2017 AIChE National Meeting in Minneapolis. September 2017:
Mehdi's paper on surface-induced anisotropic dynamics is accepted for publication in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Paper available from the ACS website.
Congratulations, Mehdi! June 2017:
Jinkai presents a talk at the AEESP Research & Education Conference, hosted by the University of Michigan. May 2017: Sara receives a Certificate of Merit from the ACS division of Environmental Chemistry, for her talk at the ACS Spring Meeting. Congratulations! April 2017: Sara delivers a talk about microbial adhesion to membranes at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. January 2017: Congratulations to Jinkai on receiving a prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. November 2016: Jinkai Xue (Ph.D., Alberta) joins the lab as a postdoc. October 2016: Adel receives the AEESP Best MS Thesis Award for his work at Concordia with Saif Rahaman. Congrats! September 2016: Adel Soroush (B.S., Tehran Poly., M.S. Concordia) joins the lab as a graduate student. August 2016: Sara presents a poster on her bioadhesion research at the 2016 Gordon Conference on Membranes. March 2016: Santiago gives an invited seminar at 3M Co. January 2016: Anissa Hasane, visiting graduate student from NTNU, joins the lab. November 2015: Santiago presents a talk at Dow Energy and Water Solutions in Edina, MN. September 2015: Sara Binahmed (B.S., M.S., American University of Beirut) joins the group as a graduate student. August 2015: Santiago presents a talk at the ACS Fall Meeting in Boston. June 2015: Santiago is appointed to the graduate faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Summer 2015: Joe Wang and Aslan Mansurov join the group as undergraduate researchers. May 2015: Our ES&T Letters paper is selected as an Editors' Choice in Science. April 2015: Santiago delivers seminars at Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at UMN. March 2015: Our paper on the interactions between graphene oxide and bacterial cells appears in ES&T Letters. Paper available here. February 2015: Santiago receives a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. February 2015: The group receives USGS funding to develop low-fouling membranes. January 2015: Mehdi Karzar-Jeddi (Ph.D., UConn) joins the group as a postdoctoral associate. November 2014: Santiago is appointed to the graduate faculty in the Water Resources Science Program. |
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