Overseas visitors (May 2015 - September 2016)

Since Taka relocated from Australia to Japan in May 2016, many colleagues and professors have visited in Nagasaki to catch up with me. I wanted to thank them on the first anniversary of my relocation, but there's been quite a bit of delays. See below the list and their photos.

8th - 9th September 2016     Prof. Da-Ming Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

26th April 2016     Prof. Takeshi Matsuura (Ottawa University, Canada)

 

16th - 18th November 2015 

Prof. Mikel Duke & Prof. Stephen Gray (Victoria University, Australia)
Research collaboration meeting.

 

13th - 15th November 2015

Hokyong Shon (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
2nd NU membrane workshop

 

22th - 26th July 2015

Long Nghiem (University of Wollongong, Australia)
1st NU Membrane workshop.

A seminar from National Taiwan University

On 9th Sep, we had a guest from National Taiwan University - Prof. Da-Ming Wang. He is a professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He is also a member of the R&D Center for Membrane Technology in Chung Yuan University, Taiwan and currently a visiting professor of the Center for Membrane and Film Technology in Kobe University, Japan. His main research interests include fabrication of polymeric membranes, membrane separation techniques, and biomaterials. He also serves as one of the editors of the Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan and an editorial board member of the Journal of Taiwanese Institute of Chemical Engineers.

He presented an interesting topic about the mass transport during membrane formation. His research group has developed a method by using the FTIR microscopy to investigate the change in concentrations of polymer, solvent, and nonsolvent in the casting solution during membrane formation. Then, the composition path on the ternary phase diagram of polymer, solvent, and nonsolvent can be constructed. With the technique, they were able to obtain information such as the time that the solution composition in a position of the cast film needed to reach the phase separation region, what the solution composition was as phase separation occurred, and the time the solution stayed in the metastable region (in between binodal and spinodal).