2021

National Recognition

Assistant Professor Devin Shaffer in the UH Cullen College of Engineering received a five-year, $538,686 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Shaffer’s research is focused on membrane separations for liquids, which could lead to better filtration methods using new porous materials. The impact of the research is far reaching and could improve drinking water purification, allow for the recycling of waste water from oil and gas production and even filter impurities from organic liquids.

“This CAREER project will engineer membranes from covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are polymers with ordered porous structures. We will fabricate ultrathin COF membranes with tunable pore properties and apply these membranes to different liquid separation challenges in the energy, environmental and health fields,” Shaffer said.

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