New Membranes and Advanced Materials for Wastewater Treatment

This volume presents examples of the potential of materials science applications for water reclamation. The solutions to common water remediation problems described in this book include resins with higher capacity and specificity, thermally-responsive resins, and even generating a commercially viable product out of the final flocculant, thus reshaping the water treatment industry into a product recovery business. Additionally, this book describes material and material-engineering solutions to common problems encountered with water remediation by membranes, such as nano-structured and smart membranes, and membranes that resist fouling. A high-throughput method for improved membrane materials is included as well. With this perspective, this volume demonstrates that recent innovations in material sciences provide tremendous potential to develop a novel generation of water treatment technologies. With further development, these innovations will lead the path to the future of the Water Industry and more globally, the Clean Technologies Sector.

Anja Mueller obtained her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in polymer organic chemistry. In 1998, Mueller joined Professor David F. O'Brien's group to pursue postdoctoral research on the controlled drug release from liposomes by light-induced polymerization. She is currently employed as an associate professor at Central Michigan University. Her research interests are enzymatic synthesis, biomaterials, wastewater treatment, and fuel cell membranes.

Preface
Glenn Lipscomb
1. Introduction: Recent Progresses in Materials Science for Water Reclamation
Anja Mueller, Benoit Guieysse, and Abhijit Sarkar

Part I: Advanced Materials
2. Removal of Endocrine Disrupting Compounds Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymers: A Review
Benoit Guieysse, Mathieu Le Noir, and Bo Mattiasson
3. Removal of Endocrine Disrupting Contaminants from Water Using Macroporous Molecularly Imprinted Selective Media
Mathieu Le Noir, Fatima Plieva, and Bo Mattiasson
4. Imprinted Polymers for the Removal of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Metal Complexes
Syed Ali Ashraf, Ckarlos Mercado, and Anja Mueller
5. Gamma Radiation-Polymerized Metal Methacrylates for Adsorption of Metal Ions from Wastewater
Bryan Bilyeu, Carlos Barrera-Díaz, and Fernando Ureña-Nuñez
6. Copper Ion Exchange Studies of Local Zeolitic Tuffs
Özge Can, Devrim Balköse, and Semra Ülkü
7. Molecular Design of Thermally Responsive Metal Affinity Hydrogels for Contaminant Detection and Removal from Wastewater
Arunan Nadarajah and Ganesh Iyer
8. Impact of Calcium on Struvite Precipitation from Anaerobically Digested Dairy Wastewater
Tianxi Zhang, Keith E. Bowers, Joseph H. Harrison, and Shulin Chen

Part II: Advanced Membranes
9. Design of Microsieves and Microsieve Processes for Suspension Fractionation
A.M.C. van Dinther, C.G.P.H. Schroën, and R.M. Boom
10. Biorepellent Organic Coatings for Improved Microsieve Filtration
Michel Rosso, Karin Schroën, and Han Zuilhof
11. Dendritic Polymer Networks: A New Class of Nano-Domained Environmentally Benign Antifouling Coatings
Abhijit Sarkar, Joseph Rousseau, Claire Hartmann-Thompson, Chris Maples, Joe Parker, Paul Joyce, John I. Scheide, and Petar R. Dvornic
12. Surface Modification of Polyamide Reverse Osmosis Membranes with Hydrophilic Dendritic Polymers
Abhijit Sarkar, Peter I. Carver, Tracy Zhang, Adrian Merrington, Keneth J. Bruza, Joseph L. Rousseau, Steven E. Keinath, and Petar R. Dvornic
13. High Throughput Screening to Modify Surface Properties and Obtain High Performance Membranes
Mingyan Zhou, James E. Kilduff, and Georges Belfort
14. TiO2 Nanowire Free-Standing Membrane for Concurrent Filtration and Photocatalytic Oxidation Water Treatment
Xiwang Zhang, Alan Jianhong Du, Jiahong Pan, Yinjie Wang, and Darren Delai Sun

Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index