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Award Abstract #0120978
Center for Advanced Materials for Water Purification
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CBET
Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
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| Initial Amendment Date: |
September 13, 2002 |
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| Latest Amendment Date: |
September 3, 2009 |
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| Award Number: |
0120978 |
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| Award Instrument: |
Cooperative Agreement |
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| Program Manager: |
Rosemarie D. Wesson
CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
ENG Directorate for Engineering
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| Start Date: |
August 1, 2002 |
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| Expires: |
July 31, 2012 (Estimated) |
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| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$32147133 |
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| Investigator(s): |
Mark Shannon mshannon@illinois.edu (Principal Investigator)
Vernon Snoeyink (Former Principal Investigator)
Paul Bohn (Co-Principal Investigator)
John Georgiadis (Co-Principal Investigator)
David Cahill (Co-Principal Investigator)
James Economy (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
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| Sponsor: |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SUITE A
CHAMPAIGN, IL 61820 217/333-2187
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| NSF Program(s): |
INTERNATIONAL PLAN & WORKSHOPS,
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH,
STC CLASS OF 2002,
CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL SEPAR
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| Field Application(s): |
0000099 Other Applications NEC,
0308000 Industrial Technology
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| Program Reference Code(s): |
SMET, OTHR, 9179, 7541, 7338, 5991, 5979, 5976, 5950, 053e, 053E, 052E, 007e, 007E, 0000
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| Program Element Code(s): |
7299, 7298, 7213, 1417
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ABSTRACT
Center for Advanced Materials for Water Purification,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(OIA-0120978)
ABSTRACT
The U.S. and the world are facing the very real dangers of depleted aquifers, inadequate surface water supplies, and contamination from a variety of sources including agricultural runoff, industrial discharges, acid rain, and ground-water pollutants. Waterborne pathogens are also a growing threat for water supplies. These dangers are expected to increase as populations continue to grow. Numerous technologies are being implemented to purify water, but current membrane and adsorbent materials used in water purification are not sufficient to solve all contamination problems and meet increasingly stringent new standards being proposed to protect health.
The best state-of-the-art materials have well-known shortcomings that are due to shortfalls in the current understanding of the underlying science. Indeed, to develop the revolutionary new materials and systems for safe and economical water-purification technology needed to counter the impending water crisis requires a coordinated, intensive, multi-year effort of scientists and engineers. The vision of this Center is to forge multi-disciplinary groups of researchers, educators, and practitioners into a cohesive team with the overarching goal of developing new functional materials and systems to purify water for the peoples of the United States and the world.
This Science and Technology Center (STC) has several distinguishing features. First and foremost, it provides coordinated participation of researchers in the following areas: water quality at Stanford and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), material science at UIUC, basic physical science (chemistry and physics) at the University of California at Berkeley, Clark Atlanta University, Stanford, and UIUC, and system-level experts at Stanford and UIUC. Furthermore, the Center facilitates the technology transfer and feedback from practitioners in water treatment through linkages with the UIUC Waste Management Research Center, and the Orange County (CA)Water District, as well as other water-quality organizations.
Another distinguishing feature of the STC is its establishment of a collaborative laboratory (collaboratory) for its education, research, and outreach functions, to ensure the integration of the activities. In this multi-disciplinary collaboratory, chemists, material scientists, physicists, biologists, and engineers will work together with library and information-science experts in the Center to disseminate information and research results showing how to synthesize, characterize, and understand new material systems designed to separate compounds from water and/or transform them.
The premise of this STC is that advanced, selective and efficient water-treatment technologies will be based on membrane filters, adsorbents, and catalytic surfaces. Rational development of the required materials requires a firm grasp of the basic science of the aqueous interface. The key issue is to observe and to manipulate on the Angstrom to nanometer scale interactions between the aqueous solution and the solid substrate. The goals of the STC are: (i) to advance the basic understanding of these interactions; (ii) to use the results to radically improve membranes, filters, adsorbents, and ion-exchange materials through the synthesis of new materials that are able to separate selectively and/or transform compounds in water; (iii) to integrate these new materials into viable water purification systems; and (iv) to integrate the human and knowledge infrastructure with the research mission to implement effectively the science and technology.
To accomplish these goals, the STC is organized in four core teams: (i) Interfacial Processes and Molecular Characterization, (ii) Materials Synthesis and Development, (iii) System Analysis and Integration, and (iv) Collaboratory Education and Outreach.
The Center supports education and outreach activities for: (i) K-12 teachers and students to learn why clean water is important and how fundamental research and sound engineering can help make water cleaner; (ii) underrepresented groups in science and engineering, encouraging members of such groups to pursue careers related to water purification, material science, and engineering; (iii) citizen groups, water industry professionals, and local governments to help formulate, debate, and implement policies related to water quality control; and (iv) the general public to understand the need for basic research on water purification. All constituent groups are supported by a web-based collaborative laboratory to support knowledge dissemination, mentoring, learning, public debate, and discussion. The main tool used for the collaboratory is the INQUIRY-based learning and research environment developed in the UIUC School of Library and Information Science, which allows two-way research and education to be conducted between the partners and all the participants and constituent groups of the Center.
The STC seeks aggressively to increase diversity in education, research, and outreach.
Diversity is essential for increasing the numbers of under-represented groups in science and technology. The STC can make the greatest impact if the knowledge and technologies developed are implemented throughout the U.S. and the world by diverse educators and researchers. To achieve this impact, the proposed STC has
partnered with the Environmental Technology Consortium (ETC) of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority institutions (MIs) to increase minority participation. In addition, CAU is an active water-treatment research partner, which supports the training of a diverse group of students in water purification research.
Due to the critical need for improved materials and processes for water purification, this
STC has an immediate opportunity to transfer the knowledge gained from basic science and engineering research to the practitioners in the field. In addition to the usual modes of dissemination in conferences, proceedings, journal articles, and courses, the collaboratory two-way learning and research tools developed through the STC quickly transmit knowledge between the academic partners and the partner organizations.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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"Asatekin, A. and A. M. Mayes"; . "Oil Industry Wastewater Treatment with Fouling Resistant Membranes Containing Amphiphilic Comb Copolymers," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2009.
"Asatekin, A., Olivetti, E.A., and A. M. Mayes"; . ""Fouling Resistant, High Flux Nanofiltration Membranes from Polyacrylonitrile-Graft-Poly(ethylene oxide)"," Journal of Membrane Science, 2009.
"Ba, C., Langer, J., and J. Economy, "; . "Chemical Modification of P84 Copolyimide Membranes by Polyethylenimine for Nanofiltration," Journal of Membrane Science, 2009.
"Bohn, P.W. "; . "Nanoscale Control and Manipulation of Molecular Transport in Chemical Analysis," Annual Review Analytical Chemistry, 2009.
"Chaplin, B. P., J. R. Shapley, and C. J. Werth"; . "The Selectivity and Sustainability of a Pd-In/g-Al2O3 Catalyst in a Packed-Bed Reactor: The Effect of Solution Composition," Catalysis Letters, 2009.
"Coronell, O., Mariñas, B. J., Zhang, X., and D. G. Cahill"; . "Accessibility and Ion Exchange Stoichiometry of Ionized Carboxylic Groups in the Active Layer of FT30 Reverse Osmosis Membrane," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2009.
"Gatimu, E. N., Jin, X., Aluru, N. R., and P.W. Bohn"; . "Perturbation of Microfluidic Transport Following Electrokinetic Injection Through a Nanocapillary Array Membrane: Injection and Biphasic Recovery," Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2008.
"Gong, M., Flachsbart, B. R., Shannon, M. A., Bohn, P. W., and J. V. Sweedler"; . "Fluidic Communication Between Multiple Vertically Segregated Microfluidic Channels Connected by Nanocapillary Array Membranes," Electrophoresis, 2008.
"Guy, K. A., Xu, H., Yang, J. C., Werth, C. J., and J. R. Shapley"; . ""Catalytic Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction with Pd-Cu/PVP Nanoparticles: Composition, Structure, and Reactivity Correlations"," Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2009.
"Herzberg, M., Kang, S.T., and Elimelech, M."; . "Role of Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) in Biofouling of Reverse Osmosis Membranes," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2009.
"Hu, L., Martin, H., Sugihara, M., Arce-Bulted, O., Keating, K., and T. J. Strathmann"; . "Oxidation of Carbamazepine by Mn(VII) and Fe(VI): Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"Jin, X. and N. R. Aluru"; . "The Effect of Ion Depletion-Accumulation in Micro-Nanofluidic Interconnect Devices," Proceedings of the 8th International Electrokinetic Conference (ELKIN), 2008.
"Jinks, R., Mehrabi, S., Barrett, C., Thomas, C., and E. Mintz"; . "Development of an Effective Photocatalysts (Cu Impregnated TiON/Al2O3) for the Disinfection of Water," "Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation Conference, Disinfection", 2009.
"Joseph, S. and N. R. Aluru"; . "Why Are Carbon Nanotubes Fast Transporters of Water?," Nano Letters, 2008.
"Joseph, S. and N. R. Aluru"; . "Pumping of Confined Water in Carbon Nanotubes by Rotation-Translation Coupling," Physical Review Letters, 2008.
"Kim, H-K., Li, J., Nagraj, N., and Y. Lu"; . "Probing Metal Binding in the 8-17 DNAzyme via Tb(III) Luminescence Spectroscopy," Chemistry - A European Journal, 2008.
"Lee, J. H., Wang, Z., Liu, J,, and Y. Lu"; . "Highly Sensitive and Selective Colorimetric Sensors for Uranyl (UO22): Development and Comparison of Labeled and Label-Free DNAzyme-Gold Nanoparticle Systems," Journal of American Chemical Society, 2008.
"Li, Q., Page, M. A., Marinas, B. J., and K. S. Jian"; . "d Ttitanium Oxide Photocatalyst Illuminated by Visible Light," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"Liu, Y., Janjaroen D., Kuhlenschmidt, M.S., Kuhlenschmidt, T.B., and T.H. Nguyen"; . "Deposition of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts on Natural Organic Matter Surfaces: Microscopic Evidence for Secondary Minimum Deposition in a Radial Stagnation Point Flow Cell," Langmuir, 2009.
"Lu, Y. and J. Liu"; . "Catalyst-functionalized Nanomaterials," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Nanomedicine, 2008.
"Luh, J., Tong, N., Raskin, L., and B. J. Mariñas"; . "Inactivation of Mycobacterium Avium with Monochloramine," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"McGinnis, R.L. and M. Elimelech"; . "Global Challenges in Energy and Water Supply: The Promise of Engineered Osmosis," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"Mendola, M. E., Paul, T., Strathmann, T.J., and R.F. Carbonaro"; . "Investigation of the Kinetics of Aquation of the 1:2 Complex Between Cr(III) and Nitrilotriacetic Acid," Polyhedron, 2008.
"Menniti, A. L. and E. Morgenroth"; . "The Influence of Shear on Microbial EPS Production and Fouling in Membrane Bioreactors," Water Research, 2009.
"Milferstedt, K., Pons, M. N., and E. Morgenroth"; . "Analyzing Characteristic Length Scales in Biofilm Structures," Bioengineering, 2009.
"Mishra, A., Gordon, V., Yang, L., Coridan, R., and G. C. L. Wong"; . "HIV TAT Perforates Membranes by Inducing Saddle-Splay Curvature: The Potential Role of Bidentate Hydrogen Bonding," Angewandte Chemic Intternational Edition, 2008.
"Nangmenyi, G., Xao, W., Mehrabi, S., Mintz, E., and J. Economy"; . "Bactericidal Activity of Ag Nanoparticle Impregnated Fiberglass for Water Disinfection," Journal of Water and Health, 2009.
"Ndiege, N., Subramanian, V., Shannon, M. A., and R. I. Masel"; . "Rapid Synthesis of Tantalum Oxide Dielectric Films by Microwave Assisted Atmospheric Chemical Vapor Deposition," Thin Solid Films, 2008.
"Page ,M. A., Shisler, J. L., and B.J. Mariñas"; . "Kinetics of Adenovirus Type 2 Inactivation with Free Chlorine," Water Research, 2009.
"Page, M. A., Poole, A. L., Finnegan, B. J., Minier-Matar, J., Kimura, S., Vonder Haar, T., Shisler, J. L. and B. J. Mariñas"; . "Improving the Control of Viral Pathogens by Point-of-Use Technologies Used in Developing Regions," "Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation Conference, Disinfection", 2009.
"Park, J. H. and N. R. Aluru"; . "Diffusion of Water Submonolayers on Hydrophilic Surfaces," Applied Physics Letters, 2008.
"Prakash, S., Piruska, A., Gatimu, E. N., Bohn, P. W., Sweedler, J. V., and M. A. Shannon"; . "Nanofluidics: Systems and Applications," IEEE Sensors Journal, 2008.
"Richardson, S. D., Fasano, F., Ellington, J. J., Crumley, F. G., Buettner, K. M., Evans, J. J., Blount, B. C., Silva, L. K., Waite, T. J., Luther, G. W., McKague, A. B., Miltner, R. J., Wagner, E. D., and M. J. Plewa"; . "Occurrence and Mammalian Cell Toxicity of Iodinated Disinfection By-Products in Drinking Water," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"Rodrigues, D.F. and M. Elimelech"; . "Role of Type 1 Fimbriae and Mannose in the Development of E. coli K12 Biofilm: From Initial Cell Adhesion to Biofilm Formation," Biofouling, 2009.
"Shannon, M. A. and R. Semiat"; . "Advancing Materials and Technologies for Water Purification," MRS Bulletin, 2008.
"Sirikanchana, K., Shisler, J. L., and B. J. Mariñas"; . "Effect of UV-C and Monochloramine on Early Protein Expression and DNA Replication of Adenovirus Serotype 2," Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2008.
"Sirikanchana, K., Shisler, J. L., and B. J. Mariñas"; . "Inactivation Kinetics of Adenovirus Serotype 2 with Monochloramine," Water Research, 2009.
"Subramanian, V., Ndiege, N., Seebauer, E. G., Shannon, M. A., and R. I. Masel"; . "Synthesis and Characterization of Polyvinylpyrrolidine Assisted Tantalum Pentoxide Films," Thin Solid Films, 2008.
"Suk, M. E., Raghunathan, A. V., and N. R. Aluru"; . "Fast Reverse Osmosis Using Boron Nitride and Carbon Nanotubes," Applied Physics Letters, 2008.
"Tian, C. S. and Y. R. Shen"; . "Comment on Vibrational Response of Hydrogen-Bonded Interfacial Water is Dominated by Intramolecular Coupling," " Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 139401, 2008. ", 2008.
"Tian, C. S., Ji, N., Waychunas, G., and Y. R. Shen"; . "Interfacial Structures of Acidic and Basic Aqueous Solutions," Journal of American Chemical Society, 2008.
"To, P.C., Mariñas, B. J., Snoeyink, V. L., and W. J. Ng"; . "Effect of Pore-Blocking Background Compounds on the Kinetics of Trace Organic Contaminant Desorption from Activated Carbon," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"To, P.C., Mariñas, B. J., Snoeyink, V. L., and W. J. Ng"; . "Effect of Strongly Competing Background Compounds on the Kinetics of Trace Organic Contaminant Desorption from Activated Carbon," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"Wang, J., Yao, Y., Yue, Z., and J. Economy"; . "Preparation of Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Films Consisting of Sulfonated Poly (Ether Ether Ketone) Alternating with Selected Anionic Layers," Journal of Membrane Science, 2009.
"Wang, J., Yue, Z., and J. Economy"; . "Solvent Resistant Hydrolyzed Polyacrylonitrile Membranes," Journal of Separation Science and Technology, 2009.
"Wang, Z., Lee, J. H., and Y. Lu"; . "Label-Free Colorimetric Detection of Lead Ions with a Nanomolar Detection Limit and Tunable Dynamic Range by Using Gold Nanoparticles and DNAzyme," Advanced Materials, 2008.
"Wang, Z., Lee, J. H., and Y. Lu"; . "Highly Sensitive," Chemical Communications, 2008.
"Won, C. Y. and N. R. Aluru"; . "Structure and Dynamics of Water Confined in a Boron Nitride Nanotube," Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2008.
"Won, C. Y. and N. R. Aluru"; . "Water Phase Transition Induced by a Stone-Wales Defect in a Boron Nitride Nanotube," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008.
"Wu, Y., Gupta, C., and M. A. Shannon"; . "Effect of Solution Concentration, Surface Bias and Protonation on the Dynamic Response of Amplitude-Modulated Atomic Force Microscopy in Water," Langmuir, 2008.
"Xu, Y. and N. R. Aluru"; . "Carbon Nanotube Screening Effects on the Water-Ion Channels," Applied Physics Letters, 2008.
"Yang, L., Gordon, V. D., Trinkle, D. R., Schmidt, N. W., Davis, M. A., DeVries, C., Som, A., Cronan, J. E., Tew, G. N., and G.C.L. Wong"; . "Mechanism of a Prototypical Synthetic Membrane-Active Antimicrobial: Efficient Hole-Punching via Interaction with Negative Intrinsic Curvature Lipids," Proceedings from the National Acadamy of Science USA, 2008.
"Yuan, B.L., M. Pham, and T. H. Nguyen"; . "Deposition Kinetics of Bacteriophage MS2 on a Silica Surface Coated with Natural Organic Matter in a Radial Stagnation Point Flow Cell," Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2008.
"Zhang, L., Singh, S., Tian, C., Shen, Y. Ron, Wu, Y., Shannon, M. A., and Brinker, C. J. "; . "Nanoporous Silica-Water Interfaces Studied by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy," Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009.
"Zhang, L., Tian, C. S., Waychunas, G. A., and Y. R. Shen"; . "Structures and Charging of ?-Alumina (0001)/Water Interfaces Studied by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy," Journal of American Chemical Society, 2008.
"Zhang, X., Cahill, D. G., Coronell, O., and B. J. Mariñas"; . "the Active Layer of Reverse Osmosis Membranes," Journal of Membrane Science, 2009.
, J., and B.J. Marinas; . "Inactivation of Mycobacterium avium with Chlorine Dioxide," Water Research, 2008.
Ding, L., Snoeyink, V.L., Marinas, B.J., Yue, Z., and J. Economy; . "Effects of Powdered Activated Carbon Pore Size Distribution on the Competitive Adsorption of Aqueous Atrazine and Natural Organic Matter.," Environ. Sci. Technol.,, 2008.
eedler, J. V., Lu, Y., Flachsbart, B. R., Shannon, M. A., Bohn, P. W., and D. M Cropek"; . "Immobilization of DNAzyme Catalytic Beacons on PMMA for Pb2 Detection," Lab on a Chip, 2008.
Li, Q., and J.K. Shang; . "Heavily Nitrogen-Doped Dual-Phase titanium Oxide Thin Films by Reactive Sputtering and Rapid Thermal Annealing," J. Am. Ceram. Soc, 2008.
Li, Q., Easter, N.J., and J.K. Shang; . "As (III) Removal by Palladium-Modified Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxide Nanoparticle Photocatalyst.," Environ. Sci. Technol.,, 2009.
Li, Q., Li, Y.W., Wu, P. Xie, R., and J.K. Shang; . "Palladium Oxide Nanoparticles on Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxide: Accelerated Photocatalytic Disinfection and Post-Illumination Catalytic â??Memory.," Adv. Mat., 2008.
Li, Q., Liang, W., and J.K. Shang; . "Enhanced Visible Light Absorption in a Photocatalytic Thin Film from a Decoupled Photonic Crystal," J. Am. Ceram. Soc, 2008.
Park, J.H., and N.R. Aluru; . "Temperature-Dependent Wettability on a Titanium Dioxide Surface.," Molecular Simulation, 2009.
Wang, Z., and Y. Lu; . "Functional DNA Directed Assembly of Nanomaterials for Biosensing," J. Mat. Chem, 2009.
Wu. P., Xie, R., and J.K. Shang; . "Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Disinfection of Bacterial Spores by Palladium-Modified Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxide," J. Am. Ceram. Soc, 2008.
Wu. P., Xie, R., Imlay, J.A., and J.K. Shang; . "Visible-Light-Induced Photocatalytic Inactivation of Bacteria by Composite Photocatalysts of Palladium Oxide and Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Oxide," Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2009.
Wu. P., Xie, R., Imlay, K., and J.K. Shang; . "Monolithic Ceramic Foams for Ultrafast Photocatalytic Inactivation of Bacteria.," J. Am. Ceram. Soc, 2009.
Wu. Y., Joseph, S., and N.R. Aluru; . "Effect of Cross-Linking on the Diffusion of Water, Ions, and Small Molecules in Hydrogels," J. Phys. Chem. B, 2009.
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