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Graduate research assistant Sean Bannon has published Application of the Born Model to Describe Salt Partitioning in Hydrated Polymers in ACS Macro Letters. This paper reports an application of the Born model where polymer structural factors resolve discrepancies between calculated and measured salt sorption properties.

Congratulations to Bea Tremblay, Geise Research Group undergraduate researcher, on winning a NSF GRFP award! Bea will take her NSF fellowship to UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2024 to continue her studies as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Graduate student Charlie Leroux won a VSGC Graduate Research Fellowship to conduct research on Polymer Separators for High Temperature Lithium Sulfur Batteries.

Graduate research assistant Charlie Leroux (co-advised by Prof. Gary Koenig) has published Transport properties of ethylene glycol functionalized membranes exposed to nonaqueous electrolytes in Polymer along with Geise Research Group co-authors Dr. Patrick McCormack and Shruti Elango.

Congratulations to undergraduate Amelia Preble who was selected to receive a UVA Engineering Dean's Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship to continue her research on Evaluating mixed electrolyte performance of ion exchange membranes for lithium recovery!

Geise Research Group students organized and presented at the
2024 UVA Chemical Engineering Research Symposium (CHEERS).

Congratulations to Geise Research Group graduate students Sean Bannon (left) for his first prize poster award and honorable mention oral presentation and Caroline Morin for organizing an excellent and successful event!

Prof. Geise has been appointed as an editor of the Journal of Membrane Science Letters!

Congratulations to undergraduate Natasha D'Cunha who was selected to receive a UVA Harrison Award to continue her research on Describing thermodynamic interactions between salt and water in hydrated polymers to guide engineering strategies for desalination membranes!

Undergraduate researcher Anna Harris and graduate research assistant Sean Bannon, shown here, joined other UVA Chemical Engineering students in an outreach event with students from a local Charlottesville school.

Prof. Geise presented the group's research during a University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering seminar titled Engineering ion transport in polymer membranes for water purification and energy applications. Thank you to Prof. Janani Sampath for the invitation!

Graduate research assistant Sean Bannon's paper Influence of Donnan and dielectric exclusion on ion sorption in sulfonated polysulfones was selected as a JMS Editors' Choice article!