講者：Prof. Manish Kumar
演講題目：Biomimetic and Bioinspired Membranes for Separations
演講時間：2/24（五）15:30~17:20
演講地點：博雅館 201
主持人：李篤中教授
Bio:
Manish Kumar is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering (by courtesy) at Penn State. He received his bachelors from the National Institute of Technology in Trichy, India in Chemical Engineering. He completed a masters in environmental engineering at the University of Illinois and then worked for approximately seven years in the consulting industry on applied research projects primarily centered around membranes for water treatment. He returned to Illinois to complete a PhD in the area of biomimetic membranes and then conducted postdoctoral research at the Harvard Medical School on the structure of water channel proteins, aquaporins. He works in the area of membrane protein biophysics, membrane protein enhanced synthetic membranes and on developing artificial membrane proteins and biocompatible electrical interfaces. His group also works on developing unique strategies to combat fouling of commercial water treatment membranes. He recently received the NSF CAREER award.
Biomimetic and Bioinspired Membranes for Separations
Manish Kumar
Department of Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Email: manish.kumar@psu.edu
Web: www.kumarresearchgroup.com
Biomimetic and bioinspired membranes incorporate elements or paradigms that are inspired by biological membranes or incorporate biological elements themselves. Interest in these membranes in the membrane community has grown rapidly in recent years, from being a science-based enquiry to larger commercialization efforts. This talk with present an overview of biomimetic and bionspired approaches to development of membranes for separations. It will focus on a few examples from more well-known classes of biomimetic and bioinspired membranes: bioinspired antifouling membrane materials, bioinspired antifouling strategies, membrane protein enhanced membranes, synthetic membrane protein channel based membranes, and selective transport membranes. This talk will also present a summary of the fundamental research needs for biomimetic and bioinspired membranes and the benefits that may accrue from such investigations. It will provide a contrasting discussion on the challenges to scale-up and use of biomimetic and bioinspired membranes in more industrial contexts