Assistant Professor @AuburnU @AuburnEngineers in ChemE; PhD in Chemical and Environmental Engineering; art, music, & nature enthusiast; she/her
Joined June 2019
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I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining @AuburnU @AuburnEngineers in Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2022! War Eagle! My lab will develop & apply novel materials/polymers for membranes & other processes in water treatment & resource recovery.
Excited to announce our newly released research article, “Tethered Electrolyte Active-Layer Membranes,” @J_Membrane_Sci, with big thanks to
@TheElimelechLab, @MingjiangZhong, @rduchanois, @Erika_MacD1 , and Scarlet-Marie Kilpatrick. Access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1d%7E…
Bottom-up synthesis of TEAMs affords a high degree of control and tailor ability that are instrumental in fundamentally understanding membrane transport and in enhancing selectivity. TEAMs reside at the precipice of applications like resource recovery and water softening.
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We also thank key funding sources for this work, including @NSF for the NSF-GRFP of C. Porter and R. DuChanois and for @NEWTCenter, and the 2018–2020 @NWRIwater - @AMTAorg Fellowship for Membrane Technology awarded to C. Porter.
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Excited to announce the release of our paper @J_Membrane_Sci detailing the Open Membrane Database (OMD) 👉 bit.ly/3oBQciF
Supported by the groups of Vankelecom (@KU_Leuven), Ramon (@TechnionLive), @ChuyangT (@HKUniversity), and @TheElimelechLab (@YaleEngEng). (1/7)
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Excited to see our lab’s research featured in the video of the @Yale campaign ‘For Humanity’
@YaleEnvEng @YaleSEAS
forhumanity.yale.edu/about-c…
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Strategies that the United States pursues under the infrastructure act will determine service quality, equity, resiliency, cybersecurity, climate preparedness, and costs for generations. Build back wiser: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Check out our recently published critical review in Advanced Materials, a @NEWTcenter collaboration with @TheElimelechLab (@YaleEnvEng) and @verduzcolab (@RiceCHBE): Membrane Materials for Selective Ion Separations at the Water-Energy Nexus. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Separating species of like-charge and similar size is a challenge only nature has mastered to date through integral proteins in cell membranes. However, these separation mechanisms are important for resource recovery, electrodialysis, flow batteries, and electrolyzers.
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We present strategies and challenges toward accomplishing such tricky ion separations.
It was a pleasure to be part of this team: @rduchanois @CamilleViolet1 @RafRice @TheElimelechLab
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Another summer fun activity of our group before the beginning of the fall semester. This time at the beautiful Lighthouse Point Park in the @cityofnewhaven
@YaleEnvEng – at New Haven, CT
I am excited to pursue a position that combines two of my passions, teaching and research. It is an honor to help future researchers develop and grow and to represent women in STEM.
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I am immensely grateful to my allies and mentors along the way, including my graduate school advisors Meny @TheElimelechLab and @MingjiangZhong within @YaleEnvEng / @YaleSEAS as well as my undergraduate mentors @KandersonKim and Dr. DB within @ukyengineering.
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First Pfizer jab in the bag...eh-hmm, arm. Woohoo! Let’s do this thing! #becauseimhappy #becausescience
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Humbled to be named Sterling Professor, the highest academic rank at @Yale, and the first Yale engineering faculty to receive this professorship since its establishment in 1920.
Credits go to my students/postdocs, colleagues, collaborators, & family.
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Our monthly feature In Nano highlights some of the great research pieces from ACS Nano: bit.ly/3lOtHn6
One featured involves the infeasibility of nanopore-based power generation by salinity mixes. bit.ly/3vS2rsy (Open Access) by @TheElimelechLab at Yale /CJD
ALT To slow climate change accelerated by worldwide demand for fossil fuels, researchers have investigated a variety of alternative energy sources. One of these is “blue” energy, generated by mixing waters with differing salinities. When these solutions of varying chemical potential are mixed, such as river water and seawater, the Gibbs free energy of mixing is released, which can be harvested to perform useful work. Several technologies have been developed to harvest blue energy, such as using nanochannels, generating the new field of nanopore-based power generation (NPG). However, although single nanopore studies have shown enormous promise, assessing net energy efficiency and inherent limitations at full process scale and realistic operating conditions is essential toward determining NPG’s practical significance. Unfortunately, modeling by Wang et al. (DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08628) suggests that this approach will not be viable.
Correlation does not imply causation. First rule of stats. Until an equal proportion of women faculty at especially the senior level exists, the suggested conclusions in this article are highly suspect. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Until an equal proportion of female peer reviewers and collaborators exist and the unconscious biases that have been held for many generations are completely dissolved, a statistical analysis that ignores less quantitative factors cannot aim to derive meaningful conclusions.
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Furthermore, incorrect methods: 1) “mentors” = “co-authors” 2) gender can be identified by names 3) success = citation count 4) mentors at the same level not demonstrated 5) data from late 1800s reflects today @NatureComms
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