On the 8th of June 2026, our master students Martin and Tomáš successfully passed their state exams and defended their theses, obtaining their Master of Science title (Ing.).
Congratulations to both of you!
Well done lads!
Laboratory of Membrane Separation Processes
Laboratory of Membrane Separation Processes
Take a sneak peak into Jana’s Erasmus+ internship at the group of prof. J. Crespo at Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Portugal.
Her 3-month long stay is focused on developing new materials by using a device employing controlled magnetic fields for a fine deposition of nanoparticles.
Yet, when abroad, it is also important to visit wonderful places and explore the local culture.
Except for the nice places, we are extremely proud to add that our Jana also just completed a half marathon run – achieving very good results in her category.
Congratulations and see you soon!
On the 22nd of May 2026, Dániel successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis called “New nanostructured carbon nanotubes-based composite membranes for selective gas separation”. His work was supervised by prof. K. Friess.
Congratulations to Dániel for reaching such a milestone in his researcher career!
On May 18-20, a meeting of the LuxHyVal consortium members took place in Bordeaux, which Karel attended.
In addition to visiting the institution involved in the project (University of Bordeaux), the HDF Energy manufacturing site in Blanquefort and the CNRS research institute “Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux” were also visited.
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!
On the 20th of February 2026, our group was visited by two estabilished membrane experts: prof. B. Van der Bruggen from KU Leuven and prof. P. Luis from UC Louvain.
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!
