Varun Vakharia Wins the Third Place Poster Award

Varun Vakharia, a Ph.D. student in Winston Ho’s group, won the Third Place Poster Award in the Membrane Processes category in the Poster Paper Competition at the Annual Meeting of the North American Membrane Society (NAMS) in Boston, MA on May 30 – June 3, 2015.  Varun’s poster was entitled “Water Vapor and CO₂ Permeation through Amine-Containing Facilitated Transport Membranes and Their Modeling for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture”, which was co-authored by Zi Tong and Winston Ho.  The Third Place Poster Award consisted of a cash prize of $200 and a plaque.  In addition to this poster presentation in the Poster Paper Competition, Varun also presented this paper at an oral session on Gas Separation III: Membranes for CO₂ Capture.