Research Interest:

Energy-efficient separation technologies for water, energy and environment related applications such as water reuse, desalination, brine disposal, trace pollutant removal, renewable energy harvesting, and resource recovery from waste.

Research Interest:

Water purification; nanomaterials; membrane technologies; membrane separation; desalination; ultrafiltration; reserve osmosis; interfacial science; nanofiltration; forward osmosis; biomimetic membrane.

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Research Interest:

Membrane and separation technologies; chemical engineering; water treatment processes; wastewater treatment processes.

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Membranes, polymerisation, nanotechnology, fuel cell, polymer electrolytes, membrane technologies.

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Photocatalytic reaction; graphene oxide; water and wastewater treatment; photocatalytic composite; antibacterial activity.

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Research Interest:

Fundamentals and applications of material design and engineering in complex membranes and nanomaterials. Develop innovative solutions to major separation and sustainability challenges in the water-energy nexus.

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Water/wastewater treatment/reuse--membrane, biological, enzymatic and adsorption technologies;  Remediation of emerging contaminants (micropollutant, microplastic, PFAS etc.) and microbial contamination (e.g., Legionella) from water; Groundwater management; Waste management, sludge management and energy recovery; Biofuel production.

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Research Interest:

Separation Technology (Membrane). He is the recipient of 2012 Young Tall Poppy Science Awards for Victoria for his work in Climate Change Mitigation.  Dr Scholes is developing efficient filtering membranes to separate carbon from industry gases such as coal-fired power stations.

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Research Interest:

Bioinspired ion channels;

Nanochannel/nanopore materials; Nanofluidic devices; Smart ionic transport; Metal organic framework membranes; Molecular separation; Ion sieving; Ion selectivity; Chiral separation.

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Research Interest:

Low cost solutions that could treat wastewater and generate useful by-products that could lead to positive impact in the industry; conserve freshwater by developing technologies that could aid treatment and recycling of domestic wastewater without producing any secondary wastes; integrate wastewater and food waste treatment to create a sustainable waste management system and look at possibilities of integrating wastewter treatment from various industries.

Research Interest:

Membrane applications on liquid/gas and liquid/liquid membrane contactors
; high concentration membrane distillation (MD) applications for zero discharge and solute recovery; 

organic and inorganic membrane applications for volatile compound removal and recovery; process simulations of pilot-scale membrane systems for energy and cost evaluation; membrane module design and CFD fluid dynamics modeling;
two-phase flow intensification and membrane scaling control associated with crystallization kinetics studies; 
membrane characterization and surface modification; non-invasive flow analysis using NMR.

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Fundamental research and industrializations of polymeric porous membranes for MF/UF/MD.

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Development of novel nano-materials for water desalination, industrial waste purification and gas separation; fabricate nano-porous metal membranes by de-alloying, metal nano-fibre spinning, nano-particle electrical sintering and metal functionalized block co-polymer self-assembly.

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Interface between biomolecules and nanomaterials towards the building of new functional products.

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Research Interest:

Solar energy conversion and utilization; Novel catalysis; 

Nanomaterials and 

nanotechnologies; Advanced oxidation processes; Fossil fuels upgrading.

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water quality issues such as heavy metals and PFAS contamination;

water/wastewater plant design for the Australian Antarctic Division.

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Research Interest:

Drinking water and wastewater treatment. Membrane technology. Water recycling. Waste minimisation/recovery in chemical processes.

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The fundamental processes involved in carbohydrate chemistry, smart polymers for drug delivery and protein purification, virus clearance, protein folding and misfolding using complementary experimental and theoretical and computational tools.  Ab initio and classical molecular dynamics simulation methods combined with static quantum mechanical calculations are used to elucidate the many underlying chemical and biochemical processes at the molecular level.

Research Interest:

The design and fabrication of low dimensional nanomaterials;  fundamental materials and structure-property relationships; chemical doping, work function engineering and defect states analysis in one dimensional and two dimensional nanomaterials for a variety of applications in high efficient optoelectronics devices, electrochemical energy storage and water purification to generate economic benefits for Singapore.

Research Interest:

Desalination, Solar Energy Utilization and Water Treatment; Multiphase Flow Modelling; Heat and Mass Transfer; Granular Dynamics.

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Research Interest:

Physicochemical treatment of water and wastewater and mathematical modeling of chemical and environmental processes. His current research activities are treatment of toxic metal ions by functionalized membranes and sorbents, ballast water management system, electrochemical technologies for organic and metal waste treatment, and instrumental and modeling analysis of environmental processes.

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Research Interest:

Development and optimisation of advanced processes and materials for seawater desalination and wastewater treatment; customised and holistic solutions for industrial wastewater treatment; Anti-fouling pre-treatment for NF/RO membrane processes; purification and re-mineralisation of drinkable water.

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Research Interest:

Water purification and resource recovery technology.

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Research Interest:

Membrane and membrane reactor technologies for clean energy and water applications.

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Paper surface modification and printing to fabricate micro-fluidic systems on paper, thread and polymer films; powder-liquid interfaces, constructing soft reactors using liquid drops and liquid marbles for stem cell; modify powdery materials for oil spill control; text-reporting paper sensors.

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Innovative technologies for water/wastewater treatment; Biological wastewater treatment; Energy and nutrient recovery from sewage sludge and waste; Anaerobic Digestion; 

Sludge dewaterability; Greenhouse gas emission; Microbiological endogenous process; Mathematical modelling of environmental process; Algae.

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Environmental catalysts for industrial emission control and wastewater treatment, membrane materials and process for desalination and industrial wastewater treatment.

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Research Interest:

The design and engineering of membrane processes for water treatment, gas separation and energy-related applications; surface and interfacial engineering technique for nanocomposite membranes such as metal organic framework, ionic liquid Janus membrane and biocatalytic membranes.

Research Interest:

Sustainable separations through the synergistic combination of materials science and chemical engineering. Sustainable production of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and clean water is largely impacted by the efficiency of separation processes in product supply chains. Investigates the potential of advanced membranes and imprinted materials for efficient purification and sustainable processing of fine chemicals and water.

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Research Interest:

Designing novel two- and three-dimensional and porous nanomaterials, especially boron nitride (BN) nanosheets and graphene; developing new nanomaterials for water cleaning, environment protection and green energy conversion and storage devices; plasma surface functionalization of material.

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Research Interest:

Integrated Computational Materials Engineering for alloy design (Alloy thermodynamics and structures);
Nano-Ionics (energy storage and clean environment) (Ion transport in nano-channels); Two-Dimensional active/actuation materials (energy conversion) (Phase transformation and deformation).

Research Interest:

Multiscale simulation; Process modelling; Process simulation; Process design & optimization; Molecular simulation

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Research Interest:

Development of porous solids and liquids for separations; porous liquids; membranes; adsorbents.

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