{"670587":{"#nid":"670587","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"New Polymer Membranes Could Reduce Energy, Water Use in Oil Refining","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-023-01682-2\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EA new kind of polymer membrane\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;created by researchers at Georgia Tech could reshape how refineries process crude oil, dramatically reducing the energy and water required while extracting even more useful materials.\u0026nbsp;The so-called DUCKY polymers\u0026nbsp;are reported in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Materials\u003C\/em\u003E. And they\u2019re just the beginning for the team of Georgia Tech chemists, chemical engineers, and materials scientists. They also have created artificial intelligence tools to predict the performance of these kinds of polymer membranes, which could accelerate development of new ones.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe\u0027re establishing concepts here that we can then use with different molecules or polymers, but we apply them to crude oil because that\u0027s the most challenging target right now,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and James A. Carlos Family Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. (This research was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/10\/231016163115.htm\u0022\u003EScienceDaily\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41563-023-01682-2\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EA new kind of polymer membrane\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;created by researchers at Georgia Tech could reshape how refineries process crude oil, dramatically reducing the energy and water required while extracting even more useful materials.\u0026nbsp;The so-called DUCKY polymers\u0026nbsp;are reported in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENature Materials\u003C\/em\u003E. And they\u2019re just the beginning for the team of Georgia Tech chemists, chemical engineers, and materials scientists. They also have created artificial intelligence tools to predict the performance of these kinds of polymer membranes, which could accelerate development of new ones.\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe\u0027re establishing concepts here that we can then use with different molecules or polymers, but we apply them to crude oil because that\u0027s the most challenging target right now,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\/people\/mg-finn\u0022\u003EM.G. Finn\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and James A. Carlos Family Chair in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry\u003C\/a\u003E. (This research was also covered at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/10\/231016163115.htm\u0022\u003EScienceDaily\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-10-23 14:52:23","changed_gmt":"2023-10-23 16:04:52","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Lab Manager","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.labmanager.com\/new-polymer-membranes-could-reduce-energy-water-use-in-oil-refining-31130","dateline":{"date":"2023-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-10-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"96831","name":"M.G. Finn"},{"id":"4216","name":"polymers"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}