Researcher Info
Thomas Schäfer
POLYMAT UPV/EHU
WG 2: Chemical & Physical Properties;WG 3: Application of ILs;WG 4: Long-term Prospects & Scale-up Challenges
www.mixedmatrixmembranes.eu, www.polymat.eu
Research Expertise
- Membrane separations
- Polymer/ionic liquid nanocomposites
- Stimuli-responsive materials
- Biomolecules, particularly DNA, in ionic liquids
Equipment you can share
- Quartz-crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring
- Surface Plasmon resonance
- Dual polarization interferometry
- Cahn-type Sorption microbalances
- Permeability apparatus
- FTIR-ATR
- Single-photon counting spectrofluorimeter
- No charge if used in the context of a collaboration.
Placements Offered
- Sorption of gases/vapours in ionic liquids
- Characterization of polymer/ionic liquid composites
- Biomolecules (particularly DNA) in ionic liquids
