{"id":732,"date":"2020-05-12T00:47:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T07:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/?post_type=research&#038;p=732"},"modified":"2021-06-29T12:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:28:31","slug":"nanotechnology-enabled-water-treatment","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/research\/nanotechnology-enabled-water-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of nanotechnology can provide new or improved functionalities in water treatment processes to improve their performance or efficiency. As part of the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), the Perreault lab is researching how to integrate nanomaterials in water treatment systems in a safe and sustainable way. Their work within NEWT covers the development of new nanoscale materials for contaminant removal, the fabrication of nano-enabled membranes for desalination applications, and new functional surfaces for fouling and scaling control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 320px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-780 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2020\/05\/3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>Visit <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtcenter.org\/\"><em>http:\/\/www.newtcenter.org\/<\/em><\/a><em> for more information on the NEWT Engineering Research Center<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h4><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Rice, D., Ghadimi, S.J., Barrios, A.C., Henry, S., Walker, W.S., Li, Q., Perreault, F. 2020. Scaling resistance in nanophotonic enhanced solar membrane distillation. <em>Environmental Science and Technology 54, 2548-2555.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inurria, A., Cay Durgun, P., Rice, D., Zhang, H., Seo, D.-K., Lind, M.L., Perreault, F. 2019. Polyamide thin-film nanocomposite membranes with graphene oxide nanosheets: balancing membrane performance and fouling propensity. <em>Desalination 451, 139-147.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mauter, M.S., Zucker, I., Perreault, F., Werber, J.R., Kim, J., Elimelech, M. 2018. The role of nanotechnology in tackling global water challenges. <em>Nature Sustainability 1, 166\u2013175.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perreault, F., Faria, A.F., Elimelech, M. 2015. Environmental applications of graphene-based nanomaterials. <em>Chemical Society Reviews 44, 5861-5896.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Funding source<\/h4>\n<p>National Science Foundation (EEC- 1449500)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-2\">The use of nanotechnology can provide new or improved functionalities in water treatment processes to improve their performance or efficiency. As part of the Nanosystems Engineering Research Center on Nanotechnology-Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT), the Perreault lab is researching how to integrate nanomaterials in water treatment systems in a safe and sustainable way. Their work within&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-732","research","type-research","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/perreault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}