Saturday, March 16
1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 17
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Course Facilitators
A. Evren Ozcam
Nitash P. Balsara
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of California at Berkeley

Who Should Attend?
There is considerable worldwide interest water purification and clean energy applications. The reason to organize a single course on these diverse topics is due to the inter-related nature of the subjects.  

For example, the European Union is moving to include water in its sustainability metrics for renewable energy. Our objective is to educate students, post-docs, and other members of the scientific community (industrial scientists, investigators at national laboratories, and faculty) on the roles that polymers could play in this emerging landscape.

Fees include both days.
$150 APS Members
$100 Students/Post Docs
$250 Non-Member

DPOLY Short Courses are offered as an educational service to division members and to the technical community to introduce important topics in polymer physics to a broader audience.

Workshop Program

Course Description
The understanding of the underlying physics of the transport through polymeric membranes will enable improved performance of membranes for clean energy and water purification applications. The objective of this short course is to provide background and cover recent developments for the synthesis, fabrication, modification and characterization of the polymeric membranes for these applications.

We will cover both theoretical and experimental aspects of selective transport through polymers. The permeants of interest include lithium ions, protons, ethanol, butanol, carbon dioxide, water, hydrogen, etc. A common framework for describing the transport of these diverse species will be developed and the instructors will provide facts on various aspects of membranes technology.

Course Lecturers 
We have invited experts in the field to cover the applications of polymeric membranes in gas separations, reverse osmosis, ultrafiltration, microfiltration, pervaporation, ion exchange, battery separators and electrolytes. We will prepare the booklet of speaker presentation notes and distribute it before the short course starts.