New Grant from TUBITAK

Our project titled “Development of Polymer-Based Hollow Fiber Membranes with High-Performance Selective Layers Enabled by MXene Nanoplatelets for Producing Clean Hydrogen and Methane from ... Read More

Ph.D. Thesis defense, 18th Jan. 2023

Congratulations to Betül Bulut for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis titled “Development of Zeolite-Based Adsorbents for Deep Desulfurization of Liquefied Petroleum Gas” completed under the supervision of Prof. Ş. Birgü... Read More

Ph.D. Thesis defense, 12th Jan. 2023

Our group member Süer Kürklü-Kocaoğlu successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled “Novel Thin Film Nanocomposite Desalination Membranes with Enhanced Boron Removal Capacity" completed under the supervision of Prof. Ş. B... Read More

Prof. Ş. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz visited KAUST

Prof. Ş. Birgül Tantekin-Ersolmaz has been invited to visit King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) by Prof. Ingo Pinnau and has given a seminar titled “Boron-Removal-Coupled Desalination by Advanced Membranes and Mem... Read More

Seminar of Dr. Hüseyin Enis Karahan

Our visiting researcher Dr. Hüseyin Enis Karahan gave a seminar titled "Antimicrobial Nanocarbon Materials for Biomedical and Environmental Applications". We thank him for his lov... Read More

Our visiting researcher: Dr. Hüseyin Enis Karahan

MEMASEP visiting researcher Dr. Hüseyin Enis Karahan, has started to work on his project titled “Conversion of Microalgal Biomass to Carbon Dots by Environmentally Friendly Methods an... Read More

71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Participation

Our group member Aysa Güvensoy Morkoyun is selected to participate 71st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting gathering Nobel Laureates and qualified young scientists for scientific exhange between nations, cultures and dis... Read More

Our young TÜBİTAK STAR researchers

Congratulations to Dilara Barışık and Melike Nur Karakuş for receiving STAR Research Internship Grant given by TÜBİTAK to undergraduate students. We welcome them in our group and wish them an exciting experience!

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NAMS, 28th Aug - 2nd Sep 2021, Colorado

Our group member Süer Kürklü Kocaoğlu participated NAMS 2021 with a poster presentation.

S. Kurklu-Kocaoglu, A. Güvensoy-Morkoyun, C. Yıldırım, S. Velioglu, M. G. Ahunbay, and S. B. Tantekin‑Ersolmaz ... Read More

M. Sc. Thesis defense, 15th June 2021

Our group member Gülen Büyükolca presented her M.Sc. thesis completed under the supervision of Prof. Birgül Tantekin Ersolmaz and titled "Preparation of thin film composite/nanocomposite membranes for carbon dioxide separa... Read More

Open MSc and PhD positions!

MeMaSep research group is looking for highly motivated full-time MSC and PhD students to work in a TÜBİTAK funded project titled "Nanocomposite membranes of novel high-free volume polymers for separation of hel... Read More

Our New TÜBİTAK - RFBR Joint Project

Our project titled "Nanocomposite membranes of novel high-free volume polymers for separation of helium, nitrogen, CO2, and C2-C4 hydrocarbons from natural gas/... Read More

M. Sc. Thesis defense, 24th Feb. 2021

Our group member Melis Tok Şimşek presented her M.Sc. thesis completed under the supervision of Prof. Birgül Tantekin Ersolmaz and titled “Polyimides/ZIF-8 ... Read More

Ph.D. Thesis defense, 1st Feb. 2021

Our group member Marcel Balçık presented his Ph.D. thesis completed under the supervision of Prof. M. Göktuğ Ahunbay and titled “Investigation of Pla... Read More

Fulbright Scholar

Our group member Süer Kürklü-Kocaoğlu is awarded with Fulbright Ph.D. Dissertation Research Grant. She has been accepted to spend one year as a visiting student in Prof. Benny Fre... Read More

Visit of Prof. Mohamed Eddaoudi, 5th Feb. 2020

Prof. Mohamed Eddaoudi from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) visited our department and gave seminar titled "Reticular Chemistry in Ac... Read More

Visit of Prof. Rong Wang, 21st Nov. 2019

Prof. Rong Wang from Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore visited our research group. Prof Wang also made a presentation to introduce her department a... Read More

AIChE, 10th – 15th Nov. 2019, Orlando

Our research group participated AIChE 2019 with two oral presentations!

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Visit of Prof. Jia Wei Chew, 3th – 8th March 2019

Prof. Jia Wei Chew from the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore visited our research group. Prof. Chew also gave a talk titled &ldquo... Read More

M. Sc. Thesis defense, 17th Dec. 2018

Our group member Aysa Güvensoy presented her M.Sc. thesis completed under the supervision of Prof. Birgül Tantekin Ersolmaz and titled “Fabrication of Amino Acid Functionalized C... Read More

AIChE, 28th Oct. – 2nd Nov. 2018, Pittsburgh

Our group atte... Read More

Euromembrane, 9th - 13th July 2018, Valencia

Our research group MeMaSep participated Euromembrane 2018 held in Valencia, Spain with three poster presentations and an oral presentation.

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AIChE, 29th Oct. – 3rd Nov. 2017, Minneapolis

Our research group attended AIChE 2017 held in Minneapolis, USA with an oral presentation.

Süer Kürklü, Sadiy... Read More

EWM, 26th – 28h April 2017, Singapore

Our research group attended Engineering With Membranes (EWM2017) held in Singapore with two oral presentations.

Mahdi Ahmadi... Read More

New Patent Application

Patent application has been filed for a concurrent desalination and boro... Read More

New TUBITAK Grant!

New grant from TUBITAK has been received: Molecular Engineering of Green Plasticizers.

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Best PhD Thesis!

Sadiye Velioglu has received the “Best PhD Thesis” award of the Istanbul Technical University. ... Read More