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Symposium JJ: Materials Science of Water Purification

Symposium JJ: Materials Science of Water Purification Image

Chairs | Original Call for Papers

Tuesday Sessions | Wednesday Sessions


April 18 - 19, 2006
Chairs
Mark A. Shannon     University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Ginley     National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Alan M. Weiss     Global Water Group
 
Symposium Support
Center for Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (WaterCAMPWS)
University of Illinois-Urbana/National Science Foundation


* Invited paper

SESSION JJ1: Materials for Water Treatment
Chair: Mark Shannon
Tuesday Morning, April 18, 2006
Room 2022 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM *JJ1.1
The Mexican Cactus as a New Environmentally Benign Material for the Removal of Contaminants in Drinking Water. Kevin A. Young, Alessandro Anzalone and Norma Alcantar; Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

9:00 AM JJ1.2
Nanoporous Electrodialysis Membranes for Treatment of Brackish Water. William L Bourcier1, Kevin C. O'Brien3, Jeffrey J. Haslam3, Sonia E. Letant2, Kevin C. Langry2, Charlene M. Schaldach2, Thomas E. Felter2 and William D. Wilson2; 1Energy and Environment, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Livermore, California; 2Chemistry and Material Science, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Livermore, California; 3Engineering, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Livermore, California.

9:15 AM JJ1.3
Energetics and Structure of Organic- and Bio-Molecules at Solid Surfaces: an Experimental and Molecular Modeling Study of Carboxylic Species on Layered Double Hydroxides. R. James Kirkpatrick1,2, Padma Kumar P1, Andrey G. Kalinichev1,2, Marc X. Reinholdt1 and Qiang Li1; 1Department of Geology, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; 2WaterCAMPwS, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

9:30 AM JJ1.4
Membrane Fouling and Membrane Cleaning in Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors. Petia Tontcheva1, Amily Zhang1, Sudini Padmasiri1, Mark Fitch2, Birgir Norddahl3, Lutgarde Raskin4,1 and Eberhard Morgenroth1; 1Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri; 3TUFCO, Technical Development and Research Centre Odense, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 4Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

9:45 AM JJ1.5
The Influence of Shear on Floc Structure Development and Membrane Fouling Potential in Membrane Bioreactors Adrienne Menniti and Eberhard Morgenroth; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *JJ1.6
Clathrate Hydrates for Production of Potable Water. Robert W Bradshaw, Blake A Simmons, Eric H Majzoub, W Miles Clift and Daniel E Dedrick; Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California.

11:00 AM JJ1.7
High Flux Polyamide Composite Hollow Fiber Membranes for Reverse Osmosis Applications. Ian Norris, Malcolm Morrison and Benjamin Mattes; Santa Fe Science and Technology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

11:15 AM JJ1.8
Polyion-amphiphile Surfaces and Coagulants for Water Treatment. May Nyman, Jill M. Bieker, Joel Bixler and Michael Kent; Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

SESSION JJ2: Materials Synthesis for Water Treatment
Chair: Benito Marnias
Tuesday Afternoon, April 18, 2006
Room 2022 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *JJ2.1
High Flux, Anti-fouling Polymer Membranes from Self-assembling Graft Copolymers. Anne Mayes1, Ayse Asatekin2 and Long-Hua Lee2; 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:00 PM JJ2.2
New Materials for Water Purification. Calvin J. Curtis, Alex Miedaner, Tanya Kaydanova and David S. Ginley; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

2:15 PM JJ2.3
Novel Bionanomaterials as Sensors for Detection and Quantification of Trace Contaminants in Water Yi Lu, Juewen Liu, Geng Lu, Daryl P. Wernette, Hee-Kyung Kim and Debapriya Mazumdar; Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

2:30 PM JJ2.4
Wet Inversion Synthesis and Advanced Characterization of Nanofiltration Membranes Jermey Matthews1, Hisham Mohamed2, Zenobia K Lewis1, Donald H Swarowski2, Kimberly L Jones1, James N Turner2,3, Michael G Spencer4 and Michele Caggana2; 1Civil Engineering, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia; 2Wadsworth Center, Albany, New York; 3Department of Biomedical Sciences, The University at Albany, Albany, New York; 4Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

2:45 PM JJ2.5
Switchable Magnetism for Arsenic Removal and Biomagnetic Separation. Cafer T. Yavuz1, JT Mayo1, William W. Yu1, Joshua C. Falkner1, Sujin Yean2, Amy T. Kan2, Mason Tomson2 and Vicki L Colvin1; 1Chemistry Dept., Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:15 PM *JJ2.6
Bio-Inspired Self-Assembly of Synthetic Water Channels C. Jeffrey Brinker1,2, Seema Singh3, Susan L. Rempe4, Kevin Leung5, Zhu Chen2, Ying-Bing Jiang6 and George Xomeritakis2; 1Self-Assembled Materials Dept., Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 3Ceramic Processing and Inorganic Materials, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 4Computational Bioscience Dept, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 5Surface & Interface Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 6Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

3:45 PM JJ2.7
Characterization of Synthetic Zeolites Optimized for Heavy Metal Removal Gautam Chandrakanth Kini1, Reda Mohamedy Mohamed2, Adel Ali Ismail2, Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim2 and Ben Koopman1; 1Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611, Florida; 2Nanostructure Materials Laboratory, Advanced Materials Department, Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute, Cairo - Helwan 11421, Egypt.

4:00 PM JJ2.8
2D Cationic Inorganic Materials: Anion-Exchangers For Water Purification. Scott Oliver, Daniel Brennan, David Rogow and Claudia Swanson; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.

4:15 PM JJ2.9
Adsorption of Heavy Metals and Organic Contaminants on Functionalized Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicates Conrad Ingram, Calrk Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia; WATER CAMPWS, Atlanta, Georgia.

4:30 PM JJ2.10
Antimicrobial Materials for Water Disinfection Based on Visible-light Active Photocatalysts. Ping-gui Wu1, Rongcai Xie1, Zhongren Yue1, James Imlay2, James Economy1 and Jian-Ku Shang1; 1Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

4:45 PM JJ2.11
Reverse Osmosis/Nanofiltration (RO/NF) Membrane Systems with Enhanced Water Permeability and Contaminant Rejection Capability. Tasuma Suzuki1, Benito J Marinas1, Yunyi Lu2 and Jeffrey S. Moore2; 1Environmental engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2chemistry, materials science & engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

SESSION JJ3: Poster Session: Materials for Water Treatment
Chairs: David Ginley and Mark Shannon
Tuesday Evening, April 18, 2006
8:00 PM
Salons 8-15 (Marriott)

JJ3.1
A novel method for producing a porous anodized TiO2 membrane for water desalination and purification applications Ryan Scott McGrath and M Misra; Material Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada.

JJ3.2
Characterizations of low-cost porous anodic alumina for drinking water treatment Daniel Lo1, R Arief Budiman1, Millie Adam2 and Tommy K K Ngai2; 1Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; 2Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

JJ3.3
Adsorption Kinetics of Defluoridation by Modified Ion Exchange Resin Balakrushna Padhi, Arun Kumar Sharma and Sanjaya Kumar Pattanaik; R&D, National Aluminium Company Limited, Damanjodi, Orissa, India.

JJ3.4
Removal of Metals from Water with Boehmite-Based Filters. Calvin J. Curtis, Alex Miedaner, Samuel A. Wilson and David S. Ginley; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

JJ3.5
A New Strategy for Water Purification: Cationic Inorganic Materials. David Rogow, Claudia H Swanson and Scott R. J. Oliver; chemistry, UCSC, Santa Cruz, California.

JJ3.6
Synthesis and Characterization of Anion Sorbents for Water Purification. Claudia Heide Swanson, David L. Rogow and Scott R. J. Oliver; Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.

JJ3.7
Protein Crystals Used for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Waste Water. Achala Talati1, Joshua C Falkner1, Sujin Yean2, Junyan Zhang1, Heather Shipley2, Amy Kan2, Mason Tomson2 and Vicki L Colvin1; 1Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, Texas; 2Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

SESSION JJ4: Interaction Characterization Methods
Chair: John Georgiadis
Wednesday Morning, April 19, 2006
Room 2022 (Moscone West)

8:30 AM *JJ4.1
Thermodiffusion of Nanoparticles in Water. David Cahill and Shawn A. Putnam; Materials Science and Engineering, CAMPWS, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

9:00 AM JJ4.2
Measurement of Interfacial Water Properties within Nanometers of Polymer Surfaces Using the Interfacial Force Microscope. Dale Huber2, J.E. Houston1, Ben Frankamp2 and Bruce Bunker1; 1Molecular Materials and Interfaces, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Nanostructure and Semiconductor Physics Department, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:15 AM JJ4.3
The Nature of Water and Transport in Functionalized Poly(phenylene)s. Michael A Hickner1, Christopher J Cornelius1, Michael R Hibbs1, Cy H Fujimoto1 and Todd M Alam2; 1Chemical & Biological Systems, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Electronic Materials and Nanostructured Materials, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

9:30 AM JJ4.4
High-Temperature Hydroxylation of Alumina Crystalline Surfaces: An FTIR-ATR and SFG Spectroscopic Study Ramesh Chandrasekharan2, Victor Ostroverkhov1, Shaurya Prakash2, Luning Zhang1, Glenn A. Waychunas3, Yuen-Ron Shen1 and Mark A. Shannon2; 1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California; 2Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 3Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.

9:45 AM JJ4.5
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Water Diffusion in 2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate (HEMA) Gels Shaurya Prakash2, Guy Raguin2, Cibele V. Falkenberg2, Glennys A. Mensing2, John G. Gerogiadis2 and Mark A. Shannon2; 1Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois; 2Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.

10:00 AM BREAK

10:30 AM *JJ4.6
Drag on a scanning probe near a hydrophilic surface Peter J. Feibelman, Surface and Interface Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, New Mexico.

11:00 AM JJ4.7
A Method to Measure surface stress on Solid-Liquid Interfaces Xijing Zhang and David G. Cahill; Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

11:15 AM JJ4.8
Characterization of Arsenic (III) Partitioning at the NF/RO Membrane Active Layer-Aqueous Interface by Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry. Baoxia Mi1, Benito J. Marinas1, Fumiya Watanabe2 and David G. Cahill2; 1Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

11:30 AM JJ4.9
Biocolloidal Cryptosporidium Parvum Oocysts and Giardia Lamblia Cysts: Exploration of Nano-Scale Surface Interactions Relevant to Drinking Water Treatment. Robert F. Considine1, Anne-Mari J. Ruohola1, David R. Dixon2 and Calum John Drummond1; 1Molecular and Health Technologies, CSIRO, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; 2ARC Particulate Fluids Processing Centre, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.

SESSION JJ5: Constituent Interactions with Materials
Chair: David Ginley
Wednesday Afternoon, April 19, 2006
Room 2022 (Moscone West)

1:30 PM *JJ5.1
Structure and Growth of Water Films and Interfaces. M. Salmeron, Materials Sciences Division, Mail Stop 66-208, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California.

2:00 PM JJ5.2
Competitive molecular adsorption at liquid/solid interfaces probed by Sum Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy Luning Zhang, Weitao Liu and Y. Ron Shen; Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

2:15 PM JJ5.3
Molecular ordering, structure, and dynamics of water at mineral surfaces: MD computer simulation Andrey G Kalinichev1,2, Jianwei Wang3 and R James Kirkpatrick1,2; 1Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2NSF Water CAMPWS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 3Department of Geology, University of California at Davis, Davis, California.

2:30 PM JJ5.4
Computational Investigation Into the Adsorption of Pollutants onto Mineral Surfaces: Arsenate and Dolomite Kat Fleur Austen1,2, Ben Slater1,2, Kate Wright3 and Julian D Gale3; 1The Royal Insitution of Great Britain, Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, London, London, United Kingdom; 2Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, United Kingdom; 3Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

2:45 PM JJ5.5
Removal of Heavy Metals from Drinking Water by Adsorption on Nanostructured Iron Oxide Membranes. Maria Fidalgo de Cortalezzi, Laura Calvo, Nicolas Gonzalez Eiras, Pablo Segura, Sergio Bocchi, Emiliano Casagrande, Lucia Olmedo and Natalia Chalup; Department of Chemical Engineering, Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

3:00 PM BREAK

3:30 PM *JJ5.6
Interactions Between Water and Model Membrane Surfaces. Bruce Bunker1, Dale L. Huber1, Erik Watkins2, Ben Frankamp1, Greg Holland1, Todd Alam1, Gayle Thayer1 and Darcy Farrow1; 1Biomolecular Materials and Systems, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 2Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

4:00 PM JJ5.7
Interfaces of methanol:water Mixtures with an OTS-coated Substrate Probed by Sum-frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy. Weitao Liu, Luning Zhang and Y. R. Shen; Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

4:15 PM JJ5.8
The Correlation of Structure with Activity of Bimetallic PdxCu1-x Nanocatalysts Developed for Nitrate Reduction of Drinking Water. Huiping Xu1,2, Kathryn Guy3,4, Zhenyu Liu1, Brian Chaplin5,4, Richard J. Lee2, Charles J. Werth5,4, John Shapely3,4 and Judith C. Yang1; 1Materials Science & Engineering, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; 2, R. J. Lee Group, Inc, Monroeville, Pennsylvania; 3Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 4NSF-sponsored Center Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems (Water CAMPWS), Urbana, Illinois; 5Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

4:30 PM JJ5.9
Role of Activated Carbon Pore Size Distribution in the Competitive Adsorption between Trace Contaminant and Natural Organic Matter Li Ding1, Vernon L. Snoeyink1, Benito J. Marinas1, Zhongren Yue2 and James Economy2; 1Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois; 2Material Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.



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