{"382001":{"#nid":"382001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Team wins award for best faculty paper","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChris Jones and Sankar Nair, faculty members in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, have been named the Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award winners for 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe annual Georgia Tech award recognizes a paper titled \u201cInterfacial Microfluidic Processing of Metal-Organic Framework Hollow Fiber Membranes,\u201d published July 4 by the journal \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/345\/6192\/72.full?sid=a21e7736-1d77-46bc-8795-798c920083e0\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe group developed a \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/node\/7556\u0022\u003Emicrofluidic technique for fabricating a new class of metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes inside hollow polymer fibers\u003C\/a\u003E that are just a few hundred microns in diameter. The process is believed to be the first to grow MOF membranes inside hollow fibers and potentially could reduce the amount of energy needed for large-scale chemical separations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFaculty members throughout Georgia Tech produced hundreds of high-quality, high-impact papers in 2014, so I am especially proud that Chris\u2019 and Sankar\u2019s work was named the Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper,\u201d said David Sholl, chair of the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJones and Nair will be honored at Sigma Xi awards dinner on April 15.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chris Jones and Sankar Nair, faculty members in the School of Chemical \u0026 Biomolecular Engineering, have been named the Sigma Xi Best Faculty Paper Award winners for 2014."}],"uid":"28045","created_gmt":"2015-02-24 15:51:08","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:38","author":"Amy Schneider","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-02-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"382011":{"id":"382011","type":"image","title":"Chris Jones and Sankar Nair (with grad student Andrew Brown)","body":null,"created":"1449246231","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:23:51","changed":"1475894385","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:45","alt":"Chris Jones and Sankar Nair (with grad student Andrew Brown)","file":{"fid":"75296","name":"hollow-fiber6_for_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hollow-fiber6_for_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hollow-fiber6_for_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":180566,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hollow-fiber6_for_web.jpg?itok=bF5lESm-"}}},"media_ids":["382011"],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmy Schneider\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 385-2299\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:news@chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enews@chbe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}