News from our department.
Our 3rd year Ph.D. candidate Josef Schneider won the Membrane Day 2026 Competition by CZEMP and was awarded with 1000 EUR.
This competition was created to honor the memory of prof. Enrico Driolo, one of the very first European pioneer in Membrane engineering, one the most extinguished recognised scientist in our field.
Huge congratulations to Pepa! Well done!
We are happy to share that our review paper on the advances of MOF materials just got published at the Q1 journal called Journal of Membrane Science Letters!
The title of the paper is ,, Metal-Organic Framework-Enabled Mixed Matrix Membranes: Recent Breakthroughs, Limitations, and Interfacial Engineering for Gas Separation ”.
Congratulations to the first author Dr. S. Ashtiani and also to the fellow co-authors.
You can find and read the article here.
We are happy to share that our former student M.Sc. Stanislav Kočí decided to pursue a Ph.D. within our group.
He will be focusing mostly on pertraction and pervaporation processes.
Welcome back on board!
The aim of their friendly visit was to discuss options for a possible future cooperation between our groups in membrane separation processes.
Thank you for your visit!
Today Dániel handed in his dissertation work with the title ,,New nanostructured carbon nanotubes-based composite membranes for selective gas separation”.
With this the final countdown begins for his defence, scheduled to take place at the end of April / May.
We think that it is mandatory to share knowledge to younger generations, as it is the key for keeping the pace with our modern world.
Therefore, we decided to participate in the national ,,Poznej vědu v akci” (Meet science in action) event that aims to motivate and also educate high school students to pursue an academic title in Science.
The topic we picked was called ,,Polymeric membranes, the future of separation processes” with which we spent 3 days demonstrating the significance of such research. Each day included a brief introduction of our faculty and 4 sections regarding the topic: polymeric membrane preparation via NIPS/TIPS methods, characterisation by contact angle and roughness measurements and in the end a brief overview over gas separation, pervaporation and MOFs as one of the most novel materials.
Thank you for choosing our group and we are looking forward to seeing you again next year!
We are happy to start the year with good news: our 2nd year Ph.D. Jordan just published his first article at the Journal of Applied Polymer Science (Wiley) with the title:
,,Membrane Polymers for the Pervaporative Separation of Polar Organics: Methanol and Acetonitrile”.
This study was focused primarily on exploring polymer membranes for the pervaporative separation of challenging methanol–acetonitrile mixtures. Also, it provided a detailed insight into membrane plasticization using broadband dielectric spectroscopy and liquid sorption measurements.
Congratulations!
(Partial) Group photo of our researcher group at this year’s Department Christmas party.
It’s always important to have a good time in this period of the year. 🙂
On the 9th of December, our group was visited by two professors: prof S. Khan and prof M. Karamad from the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (Canada).
The aim of their visit was to discuss options for a possible future cooperation in the fields of: Surface and Interfacial Engineering; Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and Material Science.
Thank you for your visit!
We are happy to share that our grant (GAČR proposal ,, Tailoring the interfacial properties of bio-inspired fluorine-free hydrophobic membranes for improved separation of gases and liquids ” got accepted for funding.
The main investigator of the project is prof. Karel Friess.
This project will run from 2026 until 2028.
As stated in the title, our goal is to develop a green material with super hydrophobic properties – all this by avoiding the use of polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
