- December 2024: that's a wrap!
as the year comes to an end, we would like to reflect on some important achievements of 2024
- 1 PhD awarded (Kseniya Papchenko, January)
- 2 new members of the Group: Maryam (Postdoc, Redial Grant) and Xiao XIang (PhD student, working on novel biopolymers)
- 1 successful conference with more than 200 delegates organised by our Group (ESAT 2024) with a FPE special issue associated
- 3 large research proposal submitted
- 1 Research Project awarded (DPI CHARMPOL)
- 1 PhD Scolarship awarded in the AI4BIOI CDT
- 3 poster awards
- 7 peer-reviewed papers published
- 1 Summer Research Intern (Ievgen Nykytiuk)
- 2 Visiting Research students from Europe (Lorenzo Merlonghi and Camille Pelgrin)
- 1 Visiting Professor from Australia (Sandra Kentish, University of Melbourne)
- 3 seminars given at IMP, Edinburgh, Exxon Mobil, USA and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Several Conferences attended (Chemeng UK, Material Research Exchange, London, ESAT, Edinburgh, Euromembrane, Prague, High Polymers, Pott Shrigley, Thermodynamics, Delft, Driving Discoveries, Nottingham, DPI annual meeting, Eindhoven)
Congratulations to everyone!
- October 2024: two new Open Access papers published in the Journal of Hydrogen Energy and Polymers Journal, respectively. Check them out:
1) An experimental study of hydrogen sorption and permeation in high-performance polyamides, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2024, 88, pp. 1463–1473, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.09.053
2) Modelling Across Multiple Scales to Design Biopolymer Membranes for Sustainable Gas Separations: 2-Multiscale Approach ; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16192776
Xiao Xiang joins the SusProM group as PhD student to develop a project around "Development of biodegradable materials for packaging and membrane separations"
Prof. De Angelis enters the Steering Group of the newly formed Henry Royce's Institute Modelling and Simulation Research Area https://www.royce.ac.uk/research-areas/modelling-and-simulation/
A new fully funded PhD scholarship is available entitled "Addressing patient mortality in hemodialysis via AI applied to metabolomics and material science" within UKRI Artificial Intelligence Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Innovation
The CDT programme is a PhD with integrated study: alongside their PhD research, students are expected to complete 180 taught credits and engage with training and development opportunities provided by the CDT.
- September 2024: the REDIAL project wins the Best Poster Award at the Driving Discoveries event organised by Kidney Reserach UK in Nottingham, 4-5 September 2024. Congratulations !
- June 2024: Hasan Ismaeel wins the Helmut Knapp Best Poster Award for the paper entitled "Modelling Gas and Vapor Sorption in Copolymer Membranes: A Predictive Approach Using PC-SAFT & the Dry Glass Reference Perturbation Theory". Congratulations Hasan!
- June 2024: ESAT 2024 conference hosted by our group is now over, it was a big success with delegates from the 5 continents.
- May 2024: Grazia De Angelis gives a webinar entitled "Fundamentals of fluid sorption and transport in solid materials with application to gas separation, hydrogen handling, packaging and water purification" to the researchers of ExxonMobil, USA.
-April 2024: Kseniya Papchenko wins the Best Poster Award at the Materials Research Exchange in London
-April 2024: Our review paper "Exploring the membrane-based separation of CO2/CO mixtures for CO2 capture and utilisation processes: Challenges and opportunities" has been published Open Access on Separation and Purification Technology. Enjoy it!
-March 2024: Our new paper "Molecular Simulations of Hydrogen Sorption in Semicrystalline High-Density Polyethylene: The Impact of the Surface Fraction of Tie-Chains" has been published Open Access on Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Enjoy it!
-February 2024: Kseniya Papchenko succesfully completed her PhD on "Development and Modelling of Sustainable Polymer-based Membranes for Gas Separation and Packaging" Congratulations Kseniya!
-January 2024: our newPostdoc Maryam Zarghami joined the group to work on the Redial project!
-November 2023: our new paper "Estimating Gas Sorption in Polymeric Membranes from the Molecular Structure: A Machine Learning Based Group Contribution Method For The Non- Equilibrium Lattice Fluid Model (ML-GC-NELF)" is published on Journal of Membrane Science open access. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.122220
-October 2023: REDIAL project was on the news!
BBC Scotland; The Herald; Renal Interventions; Kidney Research UK
-September 2023: our new paper "In silico screening of nanoporous materials for urea removal in hemodialysis applications" is published on PCCP open access. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37655458/
-June 2023: PhD Student Thomas Fabiani wins third prize as the best Presentation at the Fluid Separation IChemE event in Lancaster, with a work entitled "In Silico Approach for Screening of Nanoporous Materials for Urea Adsorption in Hemodialysis Application". Congratulation Thomas!
-Apr 2023: the project entitled "Redefining hemodialysis with data-driven materials innovation: towards miniaturization and the wearable artificial kidney ", ref: KS_RP_012_20221129 has been approved for funding by Kideny Research UK (£ 180,644.56). The PI is prof. Grazia De Angelis and the co-Is are dr. Simone Dimartino from the Institute of Bioengineering and prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris from the Institute of Digital Communications. The program will last 2 years and will study, using AI and molecular simulation techniques, optimal materials for the removal of uremic toxins from dialysate streams with the aim of developing wearable dialysis.
-April 2023: a new Open Access paper published on Polymers ! "Modelling across Multiple Scales to Design Biopolymer Membranes for Sustainable Gas Separations: 1—Atomistic Approach" Polymers 2023, Volume 15, Issue 7, 1805, by K. Papchenko, E.Ricci, M.G. De Angelis, a fresh insight based on Molecular Simulation of the gas separation properties of biopolymers (polyhydroxyalkanoates). Download it for free at 10.3390/polym15071805
-March 2023: PhD student Kseniya Papchenko wins the best Flash Poster Presentation award at ChemEngDayUK 2023 hosted by Queens's University Belfast. Kseniya works on new biodegradable materials for packaging and membrane separations, an important research for shaping a sustainable future. Linkedin post
-March 2023: New OPEN ACCESS publication "Multi-scale modeling of gas solubility in semi-crystalline polymers: bridging Molecular Dynamics with Lattice Fluid Theory" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fluid.2023.113798 ! Another step towards the understanding of gas sorption in semicrystalline material, so relevant for hydrogen handling and confinement https://lnkd.in/eqhYHNb4
