Title Participants "Effects of the invasive fish Poecilia reticulata on the behavioral response of Daphnia pulex to the exotic submerged macrophyte Egeria densa" "Ellen Decaestecker, Koenraad Muylaert" "Appraising separation performance of MOF-808-based adsorbents for light olefins and paraffins" "Harun Kulak, Ivo Vankelecom" "Constructing ultra-permeable pillar[5]arene-based membrane with intramolecular water channels and precise molecular fractionation" "Sem Bleus, Samuel Eyley, Wim Thielemans, Ivo Vankelecom, Wim Dehaen, Xing Yang" "Development of tuneable polyamine top layer for nanofiltration with high stability in bleach and at extreme pHs" "Marie Lenaerts, Ivo Vankelecom, Guy Koeckelberghs" "State-of-the-art membranes for nanofiltration are thin film composite membranes, comprising of a thin top layer on top of a porous support. Many separation processes in organic chemistry involve extreme conditions, e.g. aggressive solvents, solvent-water mixtures or extreme pH, e.g. in acid mine drainage or in Cleaningin-Place cycles. However, the most commonly used thin film composite membranes are polyamides, typically prepared by reaction of a tri(acyl chloride) and a diamine, often trimesoyl chloride and m-phenylenediamine, respectively, which cannot withstand these extreme conditions. This study aims at preparing chemically much more robust membrane based on polyamine. As diamine, 1,2-Diaminocyclohexane is used, due to its high reactivity and in order to mimic PIMs, following its rigidity and twisted structure. Analogous to trimesoyl chloride, 1,3,5-tri(bromomethyl)benzene was used. Unfortunately, no reproducible membranes could be achieved. This was solved by increasing the number of functional groups of the bromomethyl benzene from three to four, resulting in a membrane with both very good separation performance (e.g. 99.6 % Rose Bengal rejection at a permeance of 1.03 L m− 2 h− 1 .bar− 1 ) and excellent stability in extreme conditions (i.e. bleach and pH 13). Additionally, the formed polyamine membrane is pH-responsive and can be adjusted to the application by post-treatment, i.e. further crosslinking or quaternization." "Stereochemistry as a Parameter to Tune the Molecular Weight Cutoff in Solvent-Resistant Nanofiltration Membranes" "Ivo Vankelecom, Guy Koeckelberghs" "Real-time monitoring of interfacial polymerization using fluorescent dyes" "Rhea Verbeke, Scout Caspers, Wim Dehaen, Ivo Vankelecom" "Expanding the toolbox for microfluidic-based in situ membrane characterization via microscopy" "Scout Caspers, Rhea Verbeke, Ivo Vankelecom" "Spray coating as a novel, versatile tool to prepare membranes via IP" "Ivo Vankelecom" "Polyethyleneimine-cured epoxy-based solvent tolerant nanofiltration membranes" "Rhea Verbeke, Samuel Eyley, Wim Thielemans, Ivo Vankelecom" "Epoxide-based TFC membranes with tunable performance in the tight nanofiltration range" "Rhea Verbeke, Samuel Eyley, Wim Thielemans, Ivo Vankelecom"