BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Bioinspired Materials for Water Harvesting\, Purification and Oil- Water Separation DTSTART:20220628T140000 DTEND:20220628T150000 DTSTAMP:20260917T081806Z UID:eac3701616f82c99b8fbb94539e5076f5a60666d2ac3e2b3520a0ad9 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Prof. Bharat Bhushan\, Academy Professor\, The Ohio State Univ ersity\, Columbus\, OH (USA)\nBIOENGINEERING SEMINAR\n\n(Talk 3/3 in a mi ni-series: talk 1 taking place on June 23\, talk 2 on June 24\, 2022)\n\nA bstract:\nAccess to a safe supply of water is a human right. However\, wit h growing populations\, global warming\, and contamination due to human ac tivity\, it is one that is increasingly under threat. It is hoped that nat ure can inspire the creation of materials to aid in the supply and managem ent of water\, from water collection and purification to water source clea n up and rehabilitation from oil contamination.\nMany living species thriv e in even the driest places\, with some surviving on water harvested from fog1\,-3. By studying living species\, new materials have been developed t o provide a source of fresh water from fog and condensation\, to supplemen t safe water supply for communities across the globe as well as in emergen cy and defense applications2-5. The water towers have been designed which can be built economically and can be used for long periods with no net ene rgy consumption.\nThe vast majority of water on Earth is in the oceans. Ho wever\, current desalination processes are energy intensive. Systems in ou r own bodies have evolved to transport water efficiently while blocking ot her molecules and ions. Inspiration can be taken to improve the efficiency of desalination and help purify water containing other contaminants1\,2. Finally\, oil contamination of water from spills or the fracking technique can result in devastating environmental disasters1\,2. By studying how na tural surfaces interact with liquids\, new techniques can be developed to clean up oil-spills and further protect our most precious resource5\,6.\n\ n1Brown\, P. S. and Bhushan\, B.\, “Bioinspired Materials for Water Supp ly and Management: Water Collection\,\n Water Purification\, and Separati on of Water from Oil\,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 374\, 20160135 (2016).\n2 Bhushan\, B.\, Biomimetics: Bioinspired Hierarchical-Structured Surfaces f or Green Science and Technology\, third ed.\, Springer (2018).\n3Bhushan\, B.\, “Bioinspired Water Collection Methods to Supplement Water Supply\, ” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 377\, 20190119 (2019).\n4Bhushan\, B.\, “Desi gn of Water Harvesting Towers and Projections for Water Collection from Fo g and Condensation\,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 378 20190440 (2020).\n5Bhus han\, B.\, Bioinspired Water Harvesting\, Purification\, and Oil-Water Sep aration\, Springer International\, Cham\, Switzerland (2020).\n6Bhushan\, B.\, “Bioinspired Oil-water Separation Approaches for Oil Spill Cleanup and Water Purification\,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 377\, 20190120 (2019).\ n\n\nBio:\nDr. Bharat Bhushan received an M.S. in mechanical engineering f rom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971\, an M.S. in mechani cs and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado a t Boulder in 1973 and 1976\, respectively\, an MBA from Rensselaer Polytec hnic Institute at Troy\, NY in 1980\, Doctor Technicae from the University of Trondheim at Trondheim\, Norway in 1990\, a Doctor of Technical Scienc es from the Warsaw University of Technology at Warsaw\, Poland in 1996\, H onorary Doctor of Science from the National Academy of Sciences at Gomel\, Belarus in 2000\, University of Kragujevac\, Serbia in 2011\, and Honorar y Doctorate from University of Tyumen\, Russia. He is a registered profess ional engineer. He is presently an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering\, Director of the Nanopr obe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2)\, and affi liated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State U niversity\, Columbus\, Ohio. In 2013-14\, he served as ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow\, House Committee on Science\, Space & Technolog y\, United States Congress\, Washington\, DC. He has served as Expert Inve stigator on IP related issues in the U.S. and International Courts. His re search interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning prob e techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology\, bio/nan omechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/ nanotechnology\, and biomimetics. He is an internationally recognized expe rt of bio/nanotribology and bio/nanomechanics using scanning probe microsc opy\, and biomimetics. He is considered by some one of the pioneers of the tribology and mechanics of magnetic storage devices\, nanotribology\, and biomimetics. He is one of the most prolific authors. He has authored 10 s cientific books\, 100+ handbook chapters\, 900+ scientific papers (One of Google Scholar’s 1494 Highly Cited Researchers in All Fields (h>100)\, h -index - 130+ with 80k+ citations\, i10-index - 780+\; Fourth Highly Cited Researcher in Mechanical Eng.\; Web of Science h-index - 98+\; Scopus h-i ndex - 105+\; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry\, 2013\; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Jour nals in Chemistry\, 2011\; Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-field Category\, 2018)\, and 60+ technical reports. His research was listed as the Top Ten Science Stories of 2015. He has also edited 50+ boo ks and holds more than 25 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Spr inger NanoScience and Technology Series and co-editor of Microsystem Techn ologies. He has given more than 400 invited presentations on six continent s and more than 400 keynote/plenary addresses at major international confe rences. He delivered a TEDx 2019 lecture on Lessons from Nature.\n.\n\nZoo m link for attending remotely: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64085517231\n  LOCATION:BM 5202 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%205202 https://epfl.zoom.u s/j/64085517231 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR