MSE Special Seminar: Mainak Majumder
Title: Selectivity via transport energy barriers in Practical Graphene Oxide membranes. Abstract: Membrane-based separation technologies have many advantages over traditional separation methods such as adsorption, and distillation in terms of energy- and cost-efficiency and modular deployment of technology. In practice, these advantages can be meaningfully harnessed only if advanced membranes with properties such as high permeance, tailorable selectivity [1-2], chlorine, pH and solvent resistance [3-4], low-fouling characteristics [1], long-term stability under operational conditions [5,6] alongside green and sustainable manufacturability [6] are demonstrated. In the last 8-10 years, our research group has taken rapid strides to realize these properties in membranes made from graphene-oxide, including scaled-up manufacturing in roll-to-roll approaches.
Recently, our efforts have been focused on tailoring the interpore energy barriers in the graphene oxide nanochannels to impart selectivity which are…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: 075. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Aaron Sharpe
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: 154. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, February 23, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Xiaoxi Wang
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: 154. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, March 2, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Shuolong Yang
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Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: 154. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, March 9, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Yun Hang Hu
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, March 30, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Fang Liu
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 6, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Jun Xiao
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 13, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Timothy Hebrink
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, April 20, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.
MSE Seminar: Chenhao Jin
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Matthew Yankowitz, myank@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, May 4, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM.