Separation processes critically determine the efficiencies in chemical, energy and environmental processes, such as gas separation for large-scale energy and oil & gas industry (natural gas purification, CO₂ separation, air separation, hydrocarbons separations in petrochemical industry, etc), chemical separations, and water desalination and purification. We fabricate novel microporous materials into sorbents and membranes for applications in adsorption and separations.

Part of the project involves collaboration with the group of Professor Andrew Livingston FREng and research groups in several UK universities (EPSRC programme grant project: From membrane material synthesis to fabrication and function).