U.S.-Netherlands Center to Center Cooperative Research in Membrane Science and Technology

该奖项支持在美国和荷兰的两个膜技术卓越中心之间建立强大的研究联系。这是位于博尔德的科罗拉多大学利用薄膜分离的大学-工业合作研究中心，由William B教授指导。Krantz和荷兰特文特大学膜科学与技术中心，由Heiner Strathmann教授指导。 该荷兰组织拥有70名研究人员，是世界上最大和最强大的膜研究中心。 它在膜的基础科学和应用技术方面都具有跨学科优势。 美国中心是一个相对较新的中心，在膜研究的工程方面更强大。 它希望从荷兰在膜化学和热力学方面的专业知识以及向工业合作伙伴转让技术的经验中受益。 这两个中心的工作人员和学生将在几个研究领域进行合作，但通常这些领域是用于环境应用的新型膜的形成过程和模型。 具体的研究课题将包括热致相分离过程，方法，以尽量减少大孔缺陷的相转化膜，混合膜，沸石膜，聚合物膜和金属膜。 最后，将进行的联合研究应有助于了解膜作用的分离过程，以及如何改进这些过程和开发新的膜材料，以便在更恶劣的环境中使用 在为期三年的时间里，该奖项将支持美国中心的三名高级工作人员和六名研究生进行为期三周到三个月的九次研究访问。 该奖项的资金由国际方案司的西欧方案和化学和热系统司的分离和纯化工艺方案提供。

This award supports the establishment of a strong research-based linkage between two centers of excellence in membrane technology in the U.S. and The Netherlands. These are the University-Industry Cooperative Research Center in Separations Using Thin Films of the University of Colorado, Boulder, directed by Professor William B. Krantz, and the Center for Membrane Science and Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, directed by Professor Heiner Strathmann. With seventy research staff, this Dutch organization is the largest and strongest membrane research center in the world. It has interdisciplinary strengths in both the fundamental science and applied technology aspects of membranes. The U.S. center is a relatively new one, and is stronger in the engineering side of membrane research. It hopes to benefit from the Dutch expertise in membrane chemistry and thermodynamics as well as its experience in technology transfer to its industrial partners. Staff and students of the two centers will collaborate in several areas of research, but generally these lie in the area of processes and models for the formation of new types of membranes for use in environmental applications. Specific research topics will include a thermally induced phase-separation process, methods to minimize macrovoid defects in phase-inversion membranes, hybrid membranes, zeolite membranes, polymeric membranes and metallic membranes. Ultimately the joint research to be performed should contribute new knowledge about the separation processes effected by membranes, and how to enhance the processes and develop new membrane materials for use in more hostile environments Over its three year duration, this award will support nine research visits lasting from three weeks to three months to be made by three senior staff and six graduate students of the U.S. center. Funds for the award are provided by the Western Europe Program of the Division of International Programs, and the Separation and Purification Processes Program of the Division of Chemical and Thermal Systems.