Research

Research in our group addresses challenges at the interface between water, energy and materials.  Specifically, our research is currently oriented along three main axes:

  • Environmental Nanotechnology: fabrication, transport and fate in the environment, risk assessment, photocatalytic properties, toxicity, new environmental technologies.

  • Membrane Science: membrane fabrication, systems development, optimization, cost modeling, applications (membrane distillation, water treatment, desalination, water reuse, fuel cell development).

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Centers Established:

Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
Headquartered at Duke, CEINT is a Collaboration with Carnegie Mellon, Howard University, Virginia Tech, Stanford, and the University of Kentucky.

Partnership for Education and Research in Membrane Nanotechnologies (PERMEANT)
Co-Founder of Collaboration with Michigan State University, institutions in France and the Ukraine, funded through NSF's Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE) program

Nanotechnology and Society Project
Participant in NSF-funded collaboration with Harvard, UCLA, Duke, Lehigh, GaTech, and Stanford

Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN)
Co-founder of NSF center based at Rice University