Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Advanced Materials for Carbon Capture
To Be Selected from Submitted Abstracts
Discussion Leaders: Olivia Murphy (Cornell University, United States)
3:45 pm - 3:55 pm
Yuqing Fu (University of California, Riverside, United States)
"Malononitrile-Based Carbanions For Carbon Capture"
3:55 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 4:10 pm
Yuxiang Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Sub-Ambient Direct Air Capture of CO2 Using MIL-101(Cr) Monoliths"
4:10 pm - 4:15 pm
Discussion
4:15 pm - 4:25 pm
Gabriela del Valle-Pérez (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, United States)
"Silicoaluminophosphate/Carbon Porous Hierarchical Composites via Confined Space Synthesis for Superior Carbon Dioxide Removal in Close Volume Applications"
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Membranes and Electrochemical Separations
Discussion Leaders: Yagya Gupta (University of Delaware, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Pavithra Narayanan (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Self-Supported Branched Poly(ethyleneimine) Scaffolds for CO2 Capture from Flue Gas"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Ricccardo Candeago (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
"Rational Design of Redox-Active Interfaces Guided by Mechanistic Understanding of Selectivity through Operando Measurements"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Akshay Deshmukh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
"Membraneless Water Extraction from Hypersaline Brines Using Multicomponent Vapor Compression"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Neda Tehrani (UCMerced, United States)
"Advective Approaches to Enhancing Throughput in Electrochemical Separations"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Matthew Davenport (The University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"Hydrogen Sulfide and Acetylene Tolerance of Hydrogen-Stable Ag+ -Based Facilitated Transport Membranes"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Rui Chen (Vanderbilt University, United States)
"Accessing the Intrinsic Permeability and Selectivity of Polyamide-Based Membranes"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Isaiah Borne (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Polymeric Fiber Sorbents Embedded with Porous Organic Cages"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena in Chemical Separations
Discussion Leaders: Zhenzi Yu (Georgia Tech, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Ning Wang (University of Notre Dame, United States)
"Hamiltonian Replica Exchange Simulations of Hydrofluorocarbon Solubility in Ionic Liquids"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Raghuram Thyagarajan (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Molecular Simulation of Adsorption and Diffusion in Rigid Nanoporous Amorphous Materials"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
FABRICE GRITTI (Waters Corporation, United States)
"Retention and Performance of Liquid Chromatography Columns Explained from the Laws of Chemistry"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Kimberly Bourland (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"Measuring Henry’s Law Constants and Infinite Dilution Activity Coefficients in Silver-Ionic Liquid Mixtures Using Gas Chromatography for Olefin/Paraffin/Aromatic Separations"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Arvind Ganesan (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
"Integrated Separation Processes for Mechanochemical Plastic Recycling"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Dinis Abranches (University of Notre Dame, United States)
"Open-Source Sigma Profile Generation for Machine Learning Applications"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel: Your Options Beyond Graduate School
Discussion Leader: Burcu Gurkan (Case Western Reserve University, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Career Panel on Mentorship
Meghan McCormick (ATI Specialty Alloys and Components, United States)
Vassiliki-Alexandra Glezakou (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States)
Xiao Su (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Monica Ford (Ingevity, United States)
Jonathan Bachman (PARC Xerox, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes