PhD Candidate
University of Buffalo
Junyi Liu received his master degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Buffalo in 2016, and his PhD in 2019. His thesis focused on the solubility of selective membranes for carbon capture. His work on “Highly Polar but Amorphous Polymers with Robust Membrane CO2/N2 Separation Performance” was published in Joule. He also received the 2019 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award which recognizes outstanding graduate students in the areas of distillation and adsorption; crystallization and evaporation; extraction; membrane-based separations; adsorption and ion exchange; fluid-particle separations; and bioseparations.