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Shaffer Lab

​The Shaffer Lab at the University of Houston studies membrane materials and processes for water purification and resource production. Our goal is to promote resilient communities and ecosystems through membrane separations.

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Congratulations @Rutesh_L_G on your third prize student poster award at the @txdesal conference! 💧💧Rutesh presented our lab's work on contorted polyamide desalination membranes. Many thanks to @txdesal for hosting a great event!

Great presentation by @Rutesh_L_G at the 2025 Texas Soft Matter Conference held @RiceUniversity! 👏👏Rutesh presented his work with @RahulShevate1 at NCL-Pune on roll-to-roll fabrication of proton exchange membranes (PEMs) for fuel cell technology. Excellent work! @UHEngineering

Congratulations to PhD candidate Erin Schroeder @ErinSPicton on successfully defending her dissertation proposal! 🎉🥳Erin is engineering supported ionic liquid membranes (SILMs) for direct lithium extraction. Thank you committee and collaborators @UHEngineering @insadelyon

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​UH Civil and Environmental Engineering 
4226 Martin Luther King Blvd N107
Houston, TX, 77204

dshaffer@uh.edu
713-743-7612