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Faculty

Research Interests

Professor Peinemann’s research focuses on the development of multicomponent polymer-based membranes for the separation of liquid and gaseous mixtures. Main interests are nanocomposite materials and membranes for gas separation (e.g. carbon capture, olefin/paraffin separation, natural gas purification), solvent-stable membranes for nanofiltration/reverse osmosis and nano-structured self assembled membranes.

Selected Publications

• S. P. Nunes, M. Karunakaran, N. Pradeep, A. R. Behzad, B. Hooghan, R. Sougrat, H. He, K.-V. Peinemann, From Micelle Supramolecular Assemblies in Selective Solvents to Isoporous Membranes, Langmuir 27 (2011) 10184-10190
• S. P. Nunes, A. R. Behzad, B. Hooghan, R. Sougrat, M. Karunakaran, N. Pradeep, U.Vainio, and K.-V. Peinemann, Switchable pH-Responsive Polymeric Membranes Prepared via Block Copolymer Micelle Assembly, ACS Nano 5 (2011) 3516-
• Suzana P. Nunes, Rachid Sougrat, Bobby Hooghan, Dalaver H. Anjum, Ali Reza Behzad, Lan Zhao, Neekalanda Pradeep, Ingo Pinnau, Ulla Vainio, and Klaus-Viktor Peinemann, Ultraporous Films with Uniform Nanochannels by Block Copolymer Micelles Assembly, Macromolecules 43 (2010) 8079–8085
• W. Yave, A. Car, J. Wind, K.-V. Peinemann, Nanometric Thin Film Membranes Manufactured on Square Meter Scale: Ultrathin Films for CO2 Capture, Nanotechnology 21 (2010), 395301
• K.-V. Peinemann, V. Abetz, P. Simon, Asymmetric superstructure formed in a block copolymer via phase separation, Nature Materials 6 (2007) 992-996