Molecules Webinar | Advances in Separation Processes Achieved by Ionic Liquids
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University of Aveiro, Portugal;
Mara G. Freire graduated in Chemistry in 2003 at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, receiving the “Best Chemistry Student Award” from Dow Portugal. By the end of 2007, she had completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering by University of Aveiro, with trainees at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Claude Bernard University, Lyon, France, followed by post-doctoral activities at ITQB2, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since February 2014, Freire has been a Coordinator Researcher at CICECO—Aveiro Institute of Materials, Chemistry Department, University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is a Coordinator of Group 5 of CICECO, Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials, Deputy Chair of the Scientific Council of University of Aveiro, and the co-founder of the spin-off RYAPUTECH. In addition to other projects and awards, Freire has been the recipient of two European Research Council (ERC) Grants. She has published more than 250 scientific manuscripts, having an h-factor of 66 and over 13,500 citations, and has supervised 15 PhD and 50 MSc students. Her main research interests comprise the development of sustainable separation platforms for added-value compounds with therapeutic applications, most of the time resorting to ionic liquids due to their designer solvents ability.
On Thursday 3 June 2021, MDPI and the Journal Molecules organized the 10th webinar entitled "Advances in Separation Processes Achieved by Ionic Liquids".
In the past decades relevant advances in separation processes have been achieved with ionic liquids, paving the way for their application at the large-scale. In this Webinar, 4 researchers working in the field presented relevant examples on what has been done with ionic liquids in the field of separations and on the efforts still needed to widen their industrial applications.
The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Prof. Dr. Mara G. Freire, from University of Aveiro, Portugal. She made an overview of the use and advantages of Ionic Liquids in Separation Processes, and was in charge of presenting the panel of speakers of the webinar.
After his presentation, Dr. Sónia P. M. Ventura, from the University of Aveiro, Portugal moved the discussion to the use of Ionic Liquids in biorefineries with her presentation "Overviewing the Downstream Processes Based in Ionic Liquids Applied to Marine Biorefinery".
The final presentation was given by Prof. Dr. Boelo Schuur University of Twente, the Netherlands. He explained how Ionic Liquids and DESs can be regenerated for Biorefinery Applications.
The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chair. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website. In order to stay updated on the next webinars on Molecules, be sure to sign up for our newsletter by clicking on “Subscribe” at the top of the page.
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