2023-Japan-Grossman

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  Our planet’s health needs an acceleration in the pace of progress towards clean and sustainable technologies that are critically dependent on materials innovation. Materials science and engineering provides the ability to understand and control matter at the atomic scale to realize optimized performance across an exhaustive set of metrics. Since many key mechanisms are dominated by the intrinsic properties of the active materials involved, our imperative is to predict, identify, and manufacture new materials as comprehensively and rapidly as possible to enable game-changing forward leaps rather than incremental advances. This lecture will discuss the impact of materials design in different applications, with a focus on our recent work on resilient nanofiltration membranes for more efficient industrial separations, which are responsible for 15% of global CO2 emissions. Two commercial spinouts from this research will also be highlighted, one in the pulp and paper industry and one in battery recycling and mining.

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