THE SCALE UP LAB
Ongoing projects
LUCENT
Materials that unlock light-controlled separations for sustainable desalination
Funded by the EPSRC, this Fellowship aims to transform desalination, an energy- and waste-intensive process, into a sustainable chemical separation process for recovering metal pollutants from municipal wastewater as resources for a sustainable circular economy. The novelty of our approach lies in enabling the separation of metal ions from each other, in-situ separation from water. This Fellowship involves Scottish Water, University of Texas, Austin and The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia.
EMC2
Materials that unlock light-controlled separations for sustainable desalination
This project is funded by the Royal Society and facilitates knowledge transfer between the Scale Up Lab and The Institute of Membrane Technology (ITM), Italy. In this project, we will evaulate how polymer membranes fabricated by sustainable additive manufacturing perform in conditions associated with gas treatment and post-combustion carbon capture.
PhD projects related to sustainable chemical separations
Roll-to-roll polymer membrane printing
This project focuses on imbuing sustainability into polymer membrane fabrication by integrating green chemistry principles with roll-to-roll processes, including spray-coating, materials extrusion, and inkjet printing.
Photo-modulated solvent recovery
This involves the design and development of light-responsive microporous polymers and using these materials to recover organic solvents from wastewater for subsequent reuse in a zero-carbon, zero-waste manner.
