Nidal Abu-Zahra
Professor and Department Chair, Materials Science & Engineering
Research Interests:
- Water filtration (heavy metal removal)
- Biofouling in water filtration systems
- Lithium extraction from seawater and desalination brines
- Polymer functionalization and performance characterization
- MD (Molecular Dynamics) and DFT (Density Functional Theory) applications
Jin Li
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
- Fate and Transport of Colloids in Porous Media
- Biofilm Formation and Bacterial Adhesion
- Membrane Filtration for Water and Wastewater Treatment
Qian Liao
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
- Environmental fluid mechanics
- Hydraulics and hydrology
- Mixing and turbulence in aquatic systems
- Imaging-based flow analysis
Xiaoli Ma
Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Research interests:
- Removal of emerging pollutants
- Porous materials for water purification
- Membranes for water treatment and desalination
- Novel membrane formation methods
Krishna Pillai
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
- Modeling filtration of contaminants from water in porous beds and filter-cartridges
- Modeling of filtration of contaminants from water in porous membranes
- Modeling of contaminant transport in groundwater flow
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Deyang Qu
Johnson Controls Endowed Professor in Energy Storage Research, Professor and Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering, UWM Distinguished Professor
Research interests:
- Determination of pore and pore distribution in a porous material.
- Determination of ion diffusion and migration rate in the pore of different sizes.
- Carbon surface functionalities.
Yin Wang
Lawrence E. Sivak ’71 Professorship, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests:
- Environmental applications of advanced materials
- Occurrence, fate and treatment of emerging and recalcitrant pollutants
- Advanced technologies for water treatment and groundwater remediation
- Environmental chemistry
Junjie Niu
Professor, Materials science and Engineering
Research interests:
- Anti-bacterial and anti-biofilm coatings
- Hydrophobic and hydrophilic self-clean coatings
- Physical adsorption and degradation of PFAS pollutants: Super-high-capacity adsorbents and scalable degradation process via photocatalytic reaction and biological degradation
- Portable biosensor and electrochemical sensor to rapidly detect bacteria and PFAS in Water
- Other contaminations filtration in various water treatments