Location
Cherry Auditorium, Kirk Hall
Start Date
9-23-2021 12:45 PM
Description
This talk is unashamedly industrially focused. I aim to describe how the principles learned in undergraduate materials science are core to product development across a broad range of industries, from cosmetics to inkjet to pharmaceuticals. I will especially use polymeric filters as an example, porous polymer membranes used to remove challenging impurities in life science and industrial applications. I will describe some of our pressing materials challenges, how we seek new technologies to solve these and what challenges we face to bring them to commercial application. Finally, I will digress to what many of us in materials science have been doing in the last year, responding to the urgency of the pandemic, bringing our membranes fast to critical applications in vaccine manufacture, ventilator filters and diagnostics. Through these examples I aim to show the challenges and rewards of materials science applied to product development.
Speaker Bio
Eilidh Bedford is the Chief Technology Officer at Pall Life Sciences, a Materials Science company focused on solving tough customer challenges in filtration, separations and purification. Eilidh obtained her PhD in Materials Science at Cambridge within the Polymer Group, a team which still maintains close ties and ideas sharing. She is fascinated by the application of materials science to industrial problems and has led product development teams in Consumer Products, Pharmaceuticals and Materials Science Companies – ranging from multinationals to start ups. She lives near Boston and especially enjoys materials science as applied to new bicycles, in order to make training for the annual “Pan Mass Challenge '' a little easier.
Materials Challenges in Membrane-Hidden Heroes of Pandemic
Cherry Auditorium, Kirk Hall
This talk is unashamedly industrially focused. I aim to describe how the principles learned in undergraduate materials science are core to product development across a broad range of industries, from cosmetics to inkjet to pharmaceuticals. I will especially use polymeric filters as an example, porous polymer membranes used to remove challenging impurities in life science and industrial applications. I will describe some of our pressing materials challenges, how we seek new technologies to solve these and what challenges we face to bring them to commercial application. Finally, I will digress to what many of us in materials science have been doing in the last year, responding to the urgency of the pandemic, bringing our membranes fast to critical applications in vaccine manufacture, ventilator filters and diagnostics. Through these examples I aim to show the challenges and rewards of materials science applied to product development.
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