Shaffer Lab

Congratulations to PhD candidate Marcela Strane on the successful defense of her dissertation proposal! 👩‍🔬👏Marcela's research is focused on microplastic pollution from land-applied biosolids. Thank you to an excellent and engaged committee! @UHEngineering

Congrats @ManiGhammy and @KarimLabs on this exciting work showing exceptional dielectric performance of 2D COF materials! ⚡️⚡️Thanks @ErinSPicton for your contributions synthesizing COF films with funding from @NSF. @UHEngineering

Congratulations @Rutesh_L_G on your third prize student poster award at the @txdesal conference! 💧💧Rutesh presented our lab's work on contorted polyamide desalination membranes. Many thanks to @txdesal for hosting a great event!

Great presentation by @Rutesh_L_G at the 2025 Texas Soft Matter Conference held @RiceUniversity! 👏👏Rutesh presented his work with @RahulShevate1 at NCL-Pune on roll-to-roll fabrication of proton exchange membranes (PEMs) for fuel cell technology. Excellent work! @UHEngineering

Congratulations to PhD candidate Erin Schroeder @ErinSPicton on successfully defending her dissertation proposal! 🎉🥳Erin is engineering supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) for direct lithium extraction. Thank you committee and collaborators @UHEngineering @insadelyon

Welcome Rutesh Gaikwad @Rutesh_L_G to @UHEngineering! Rutesh is a PhD student with @RahulShevate1 at NCL-Pune. We look forward to working with him to advance contorted polyamide desalination membrane technology. Welcome to Houston! 🤠

Great work by @SayaliShaligra1, @RahulShevate1, and @Siddhartha_0505 with funding from @usbr! @UHEngineering

Incorporating contorted monomers in polyamide membranes increases free volume and improves their permselectivity. 💧🌊 Check out our @usbr-funded work by @SayaliShaligra1, @RahulShevate1, and @Siddhartha_0505 published in @ACS_AMI. @UHEngineering pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations Marcela Strane on your Best Graduate Poster award at the Society of Wetland Scientists @SWS_org Student Section Virtual International Conference!! 🏆 Marcela presented her research characterizing microplastics at the land-water interface. 👩‍🔬 @UHEngineering

Congrats Dana R. Flores on your @J_Membrane_Sci publication! 👏Dana quantifies the contributions of different solute rejection mechanisms in nanofiltration using covalent organic frameworks (COFs) as model materials. 👩‍🔬Thank you sponsors @NSF and @AMTAorg. doi.org/10.1016/j.mems…

Introducing Dr. Dana R. Flores! 👏👏Congratulations Dana on the successful defense of your Ph.D. dissertation "Modeling Nanofiltration Separation Mechanisms in Covalent Organic Framework Membranes." 🍾🥳 We are so proud of your accomplishments! Congrats! @UHEngineering #PhDone

Congratulations Dr. Parisa Taheri on earning your Ph.D.! 🎓@Pari3a_Taheri successfully defended her dissertation "Scalable Synthesis and Separation Performance of Covalent Organic Framework and Contorted Polyamide Membranes." Great work from a great researcher! 👏@UHEngineering

@RiceCEVE Congratulations Meny @TheElimelechLab and @RiceCEVE! Welcome to Houston!

We are thrilled to announce that Menachem Elimelech, one of the world’s leading researchers in energy-efficient desalination and wastewater reuse, will join Rice University's civil and environmental engineering faculty, effective Jan. 1. engineering.rice.edu/news/menachem-…

Incroyable! @ErinSPicton has been named a @ChateaubriandUS Fellow! She will spend the fall researching supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) for lithium extraction with @jannick_duchet at @insadelyon. Congrats Erin! Thank you @FranceintheUS for your sponsorship. 🇫🇷🇺🇸

Congratulations Tristan on your selection as a @UHouston Energy Scholar! 🎉Tristan will research membranes for direct lithium extraction, a continuation of their work as a @UHteachHOUSTON researcher. Great job Tristan! 👏@uhoustonenergy #UHEngineering uh.edu/honors/undergr…

LiQuidium wins the @NOVGlobal Energy Technology Innovation Prize @RBPC!! 🏆Congrats to the team @ErinSPicton @Pari3a_Taheri @PranjalSheth2 for your excellent plan and pitch 👏👏 Many thanks to @ricealliance for hosting a great competition! @UHEngineering @uhoustonenergy #GoCoogs

Congratulations LiQuidium for advancing to the semifinal round of the @RBPC ! Co-founders @ErinSPicton and @Pari3a_Taheri wowed the judges with their business pitch for membrane-based direct lithium extraction. 🤩 Best of luck to all of the teams! @UHEngineering @uhoustonenergy

Excellent pitch today from LiQuidium co-founders @ErinSPicton and @Pari3a_Taheri at the Rice Business Plan Competition @RBPC! 👏👏 Thank you to our neighbors @RiceUniversity for hosting a world-class competition! 🦉🤝🐈 @UHEngineering #GoCoogs

We are excited to partner with Dr. Dimitrios Kalliontzis at #UHEngineering to develop a wave-powered desalination system for coastal communities 🌊🌊💧 with funding from @eeregov Water Power Technologies Office and @MSRDConsortium! #GoCoogs energy.gov/eere/water/art…

Congratulations Pablo Bribiesca @pablo2br on your ACS Energy & Fuels paper! 👨‍🔬Pablo shows that tuning waterflood chemistry enhances oil recovery during waterflooding in a radial Hele-Shaw cell. 💧Thanks @acsprf for funding Pablo's research! @UHEngineering doi.org/10.1021/acs.en…