Phase II U. of Colorado Boulder Site: Center for Membrane Science, Engineering and Technology (MAST)

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校二期基地：膜科学、工程和技术中心 (MAST)

• 批准号: 1624602
• 负责人: Yifu Ding
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1624602&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Phase; II; U.; Colorado; Boulder

A membrane is a selective barrier that enables some small particles, molecules or ions to pass through but rejects others. Membrane-based separations offer a number of advantages over conventional processes used in chemical separations. They are often more energy efficient, more environmentally friendly, easier to scale-up for manufacturing, and more compatible with process streams, and thus provide lower-cost separation in a wide range of critical applications including sea water desalination, food and beverage production, pharmaceutical processing and blood dialysis. The University of Colorado Boulder site of the MAST Center is focused on providing more advanced membranes for future separations needs as well as leading the development of new separations processes. This work addresses critical national economic competitiveness, defense and health needs.The MAST Center is a multi-campus industry-university collaborative research Center with the University of Colorado Boulder (UCB) as one of the three sites that (1) conduct fundamental and applied research in the field of membranes via innovative materials and processes to facilitate the use of membrane technology for current and emerging industrial applications; (2) sustain U.S. technological leadership in membrane materials and membrane-based separation processes and accelerate commercialization by Center industrial sponsors of novel, sustainable and innovative technologies; and (3) provide undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral researchers with a superior educational and research experience that will enable them to become productive and effective professionals. Research at the UCB site is focused on the development of novel membrane materials and structures, innovative membrane characterization techniques and the generation of fundamental and applied knowledge regarding selective molecular transport mechanisms and membrane fouling. The technical expertise represented by participating UCB faculty from five academic departments is focused on important membrane applications in water, energy, and barrier materials.

膜是一种选择性障碍，使一些小颗粒，分子或离子可以通过但拒绝其他屏障。 基于膜的分离提供了与化学分离中使用的常规过程相比的许多优势。 它们通常更节能，更环保，更易于扩大制造，并且与过程流更加兼容，因此在广泛的关键应用中提供了较低的成本分离，包括海水脱盐，食品和饮料生产，药物加工和血液透析。 桅杆中心的科罗拉多大学博尔德分校致力于为未来的分离需求提供更先进的膜，并领导新的分离过程的发展。 这项工作解决了关键的国家经济竞争力，国防和健康需求。桅杆中心是与科罗拉多大学博尔德大学（UCB）的多校园行业 - 大学合作研究中心，是（1）通过创新材料和工艺实施膜技术的三个基础和应用研究的基础和应用研究的站点之一。 （2）维持美国技术领导力在膜材料和基于膜的分离过程中，并通过新颖，可持续和创新技术的中心工业赞助商加速商业化； （3）为本科，研究生和博士后研究人员提供了卓越的教育和研究经验，这将使他们能够成为有效和有效的专业人员。 UCB站点的研究重点是开发新型的膜材料和结构，创新的膜表征技术以及有关选择性分子传输机制和膜结垢的基本知识和应用知识的产生。 来自五个学术部门的UCB教职员工所代表的技术专业知识集中在水，能源和屏障材料中的重要膜应用上。