Gordon Research Conference on Chemical Separations: Separations Breakthroughs for Commodity and Specialty Chemicals, Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry

该NSF奖将支持演讲者和与会者前往2020年1月26日至31日在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿举行的戈登化学分离研究会议（GRC）。化学分离是备受尊敬的GRC会议组织的一个新主题。几乎每一种化学产品的生产都涉及到分离步骤。因此，化学分离的新思想和改进对各种工业部门都具有至关重要的意义。迫切需要新的非热技术来减少对能源密集型蒸馏的依赖。这个过程通常需要很高的温度，因为蒸馏是根据液体沸点的不同来分离液体的。有针对性的化学分离对放射性废物的管理至关重要。同样，可以应用于复杂混合物的分析分离对于简化新药开发和检测环境污染物至关重要。从NSF申请的资金将用于支持演讲者的旅行，特别是杰出的女性受邀演讲者，以及研究生，博士后和早期职业专业与会者的旅行。化学分离GRC旨在连接化学家，材料科学家和化学工程师，以讨论以下主题：将分离科学转化为应用，商品规模的化学分离，生物分离，膜分离，吸附驱动分离，强化分离过程，离子的选择性捕获，设计吸附剂和溶剂，以及复杂环境中的分离。与会者有机会听取不同应用领域专家的意见，这对经验丰富的研究人员和早期职业人士都具有吸引力。NSF提供的资金将用于支持演讲者的旅行，特别是杰出的女性受邀演讲者，研究生，博士后和早期职业专业人士展示海报。在GRCs，这些海报会议是会议计划的核心部分，参加人数很多。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This NSF award will support speaker and attendee travel to the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Chemical Separations, held in Galveston, TX on January 26-31, 2020. Chemical Separations is a new topic for the well-respected GRC conference organization. Separation steps are involved in producing nearly every chemical product. Therefore, new ideas and improvements in chemical separations are of vital interest to a variety of industrial sectors. New, non-thermal technologies are desperately needed to decrease reliance on energy-intensive distillation. This process often requires high temperatures, as distillation separates liquids based on difference in their boiling points. Targeted chemical separations are critical to management of radioactive waste. Similarly, analytical separations that can be applied to complex mixtures are vital in streamlining development of new drugs and detecting environmental contaminants. The funds requested from NSF will be used to support travel for speakers, especially distinguished female invited speakers, and travel for graduate student, postdoctoral and early career professional attendees. The Chemical Separations GRC aims to connect chemists, materials scientists and chemical engineers in order to discuss topics such as: translating separations science to applications, commodity scale chemical separations, bioseparations, membrane separations, adsorption-driven separations, intensified separation processes, selective capture of ions, designer sorbents and solvents, and separations in complex environments. The opportunity for attendees to hear from experts in a diverse range of application domains will be attractive to both seasoned researchers and early career professionals. The funds provided by NSF will be used to support travel for speakers, especially distinguished female invited speakers, graduate students, postdocs and early career professionals presenting a poster. At GRCs, these poster sessions are a core part of the conference program and are well attended.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.