Feng Gao | Argonne National Laboratory

Biography

Feng Gao is a postdoctoral researcher at the Advanced Materials for Energy-Water Systems (AMEWS) Energy Frontier Research Center at Argonne. His research focuses on understanding the interplay between membrane nanostructure, pore chemistry, and transport mechanisms to generate clean water using advanced membrane materials and engineering techniques. He is currently studying isoporous membranes that are modified by atomic layer deposition (ALD) and assessing their potential in advancing the “upper-bound” of the permeability-selectivity trade-off relationships encountered by many membranes.

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2020
B.S., University of Minnesota Duluth, 2014

Selected Publications

Wang, T.; Gao, F.; Li, S.; Phillip, W. A.; Guo, R. Water and salt transport properties of pentiptycene-containing sulfonated polysulfones for desalination membrane applications. Journal of Membrane Science (2021): 119806. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037673882100750X?cas…
Waldman, R. Z.*; Gao, F.* (*equally contributed); Phillip, W. A.; Darling, S. B. Maximizing selectivity: An analysis of isoporous membranes. Journal of Membrane Science 633 (2021): 119389. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376738821003379
Hoffman, J. R.; Mikes, A.; Gao, F.; Phillip, W. A. Controlled Post-Assembly Functionalization of Mesoporous Copolymer Membranes Informed by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2019, 1 (8), 2120–2130. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.9b00419.
Gao, F.; Hunter, A.; Qu, S.; Hoffman, J. R.; Gao, P.; Phillip, W. A. Interfacial Junctions Control Electrolyte Transport Through Charge-Patterned Membranes. ACS Nano 2019, 13 (7), 7655–7664. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.9b00780.
Zhang, Y.; Vallin, J. R.; Sahoo, J. K.; Gao, F.; Boudouris, B. W.; Webber, M. J.; Phillip, W. A. High-Affinity Detection and Capture of Heavy Metal Ions Using Block Polymer Composite Membranes. ACS Cent. Sci. 2018, 4 (12), 1697–1707. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.8b00690.
Bush, A. M.; Ford, H. O.; Gao, F.; Summe, M. J.; Rouvimov, S.; Schaefer, J. L.; Phillip, W. A.; Guo, R. Tunable Mesoporous Films from Copolymers with Degradable Side Chains as Membrane Precursors. J. Memb. Sci. 2018, 567, 104–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2018.08.069.
Benavides, S.; Qu, S.; Gao, F.; Phillip, W. A. Polymeric Ion Pumps: Using an Oscillating Stimulus to Drive Solute Transport in Reactive Membranes. Langmuir 2018, 34 (15), 4503–4514. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b00193.