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| Project Title | Modeling the Molecular Properties of Polymer Membranes for Water Purification |
| Summary | Existing theories do not provide fundamental understanding of water and salt transport through polymer membranes for water purification. This work will examine how water and salt transport through polysulfone-based membranes is affected by functional groups in the polymer network and variations in salt concentration at the molecular level using molecular simulation. |
| Job Description | The intern will run and analyze molecular simulations of polysulfone and other polymer systems to calculate the diffusion and chemical potential of both water and ions. The intern will work closely with experimental groups at U.Va. to suggest rationales behind experimental trends based on the molecular simulation results. |
| Conditions/Qualifications | Applicants must be undergraduates at the University of Virginia |
| Start Date | 05/20/2015 |
| End Date | 05/20/2016 |
| Location | Shirts Research Group, Department of Chemical Engineering, Charlottesville, VA |
| Interns | Andrew Biedermann
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