Benny D. Freeman

Benny D. Freeman (born 29 April 1961 in Hendersonville, North Carolina) is a chemical engineering professor at The University of Texas at Austin.[1] He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from NC State University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. Afterwards, during 1988–89, he served as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris in the Laboratoire Physico-Chimie Structurale et Macromoléculaire, Paris, France. He then returned to his undergraduate Alma Mater, NC State, where he served on the chemical engineering faculty from 1989–2001. In 2001, he moved to The University of Texas at Austin where, today, he serves as the William J. (Bill) Murray Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering in the chemical engineering department.[1]

Benny D. Freeman
Born29 April 1961
Hendersonville, NC
NationalityUnited States
EducationChemical Engineering
Alma materUC, Berkeley (Ph.D), NC State (B.S.)
Known forgas, vapor, and liquid solubility, diffusion and permeability in polymers and polymer based materials, membranes, water purification membranes, gas separation membranes, upper bound theory, ion sorption, diffusion, permeation and conduction in water-swollen polymers

Awards

Selected Publications (from >450)

Greenlee, L.F., B.D. Freeman and D.F. Lawler, “Ozonation of Phosphonate Antiscalants Used for Reverse Osmosis Desalination: Parameter Effects on the Extent of Oxidation,” Chemical Engineering Journal, 244, 505-513 (2014).

Freeman, B.D., “Basis of Permeability/Selectivity Tradeoff Relations in Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes,” Macromolecules, 32, 375-380 (1999).

Merkel, T.C., B.D. Freeman, R.J. Spontak, Z. He, I. Pinnau, P. Meakin and A.J. Hill, “Ultrapermeable, Reverse-Selective Nanocomposite Membranes”, Science, 296, 519-522 (2002).

Merkel, T.C., V.I. Bondar, K. Nagai, B.D. Freeman, and I. Pinnau, “Gas Sorption, Diffusion, and Permeation in Poly(dimethylsiloxane),” Journal of Polymer Science: Part B, Polymer Physics, 38, 415-434 (2000).

Park, H.B., C.H. Jung, Y.M. Lee, A.J. Hill, S.J. Pas, S.T. Mudie, E. van Wagner, B.D. Freeman, and D.J. Cookson, “Polymers with Cavities Tuned for Fast, Selective Transport of Small Molecules and Ions,” Science, 318, 254-258 (2007).

Geise, G.M., H.-S. Lee, D.J. Miller, B.D. Freeman, J.E. McGrath, and D.R. Paul, “Water Purification by Membranes:  The Role of Polymer Science,” Journal of Polymer Science: Part B.  Polymer Physics, 48, 1685-1718 (2010).

Park, H.B., J. Kamcev, L.M. Robeson, M. Elimelech, and B.D. Freeman, “Maximizing the Right Stuff: The Tradeoff Between Membrane Permeability and Selectivity,” Science, 356(6343), eaab0530 (2017).

Sanders, D.F., Z.P. Smith, R. Guo, L.M. Robeson, J.E. McGrath, D.R. Paul, and B.D. Freeman, “Energy-Efficient Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes for a Sustainable Future:  A Review,” Polymer, 54, 4729-4761 (2013).

Lin, H., E. van Wagner, B.D. Freeman, L.G. Toy, and R.P. Gupta, “Plasticization-Enhanced H2 Purification Using Polymeric Membranes,” Science, 311(5761), 639-642 (2006).

Geise, G.M., H.B. Park, A.C. Sagle, B.D. Freeman, and J.E. McGrath, “Water Permeability and Water/Salt Selectivity Tradeoff in Polymers for Desalination,” Journal of Membrane Science, 369(1-2), 130-138 (2011).

References
  1. "Faculty Profile: Freeman, Benny D. Ph.D." McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering. 15 February 2020.
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