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Overview

Neil B. McKeown is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on membrane technologies, materials science, and engineering applications related to ion transport and energy conversion.

The scientist's main fields of study include engineering and materials science. Within these, the prominent subfields of study are electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Key research topics associated with Neil B. McKeown's work are:

  • Membrane Separation and Gas Transport
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques

Frequently published venues for McKeown's research include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • ChemElectroChem

Frequent coauthors in their research include Mariolino Carta, Frank Marken, Richard Malpass-Evans, Chunchun Ye, and Johannes C. Jansen.

Recent research papers by Neil B. McKeown and collaborators include:

  • Selective ion transport through hydrated micropores in polymer membranes, 2024, Nature
  • Near-frictionless ion transport within triazine framework membranes, 2023, Nature
  • Development of efficient aqueous organic redox flow batteries using ion-sieving sulfonated polymer membranes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Sulfonated Microporous Polymer Membranes with Fast and Selective Ion Transport for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs), 2020, Polymer

In 2017, Neil B. McKeown was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Best Publications

  • Phthalocyanine Materials: Synthesis, Structure and Function

    Neil B. McKeown

  • Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs): organic materials for membrane separations, heterogeneous catalysis and hydrogen storage

    Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd

  • Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs): robust, solution-processable, organic nanoporous materials.

    Peter M. Budd;Bader S. Ghanem;Saad Makhseed;Neil B. McKeown

  • An efficient polymer molecular sieve for membrane gas separations.

    Mariolino Carta;Richard Malpass-Evans;Matthew Croad;Yulia Rogan

  • Solution-Processed, Organophilic Membrane Derived from a Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity

    Peter M. Budd;Elssalhen S. Elabas;Bader S. Ghanem;Saad Makhseed

  • Gas separation membranes from polymers of intrinsic microporosity

    Peter M. Budd;Kadhum J. Msayib;Carin E. Tattershall;Bader S. Ghanem

  • The influence of surface modification on the cytotoxicity of PAMAM dendrimers.

    R Jevprasesphant;J Penny;R Jalal;D Attwood

  • Exploitation of Intrinsic Microporosity in Polymer-Based Materials

    Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd

  • Redefining the Robeson upper bounds for CO2/CH4 and CO2/N2 separations using a series of ultrapermeable benzotriptycene-based polymers of intrinsic microporosity

    Bibiana Comesaña-Gándara;Jie Chen;C. Grazia Bezzu;Mariolino Carta

  • Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs): bridging the void between microporous and polymeric materials.

    Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd;Kadhum J. Msayib;Bader S. Ghanem

  • Gas permeation parameters and other physicochemical properties of a polymer of intrinsic microporosity: Polybenzodioxane PIM-1

    Peter M. Budd;Neil B. McKeown;Bader S. Ghanem;Kadhum J. Msayib

  • Gas Permeation Properties, Physical Aging, and Its Mitigation in High Free Volume Glassy Polymers

    Ze Xian Low;Peter M. Budd;Neil B. McKeown;Darrell A. Patterson

  • Towards Polymer-Based Hydrogen Storage Materials: Engineering Ultramicroporous Cavities within Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity

    Neil B. McKeown;Bader Gahnem;Kadhum J. Msayib;Peter M. Budd

  • Free volume and intrinsic microporosity in polymers

    Peter M. Budd;Neil B. McKeown;Detlev Fritsch

  • Hydrophilic microporous membranes for selective ion separation and flow-battery energy storage

    Rui Tan;Anqi Wang;Richard Malpass-Evans;Rhodri Williams

  • Triptycene Induced Enhancement of Membrane Gas Selectivity for Microporous Tröger's Base Polymers

    Mariolino Carta;Matthew Croad;Richard Malpass-Evans;Johannes C. Jansen

  • Highly permeable polymers for gas separation membranes

    Peter M. Budd;Neil B. McKeown

  • A Spirobifluorene-Based Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity with Improved Performance for Gas Separation

    C. Grazia Bezzu;Mariolino Carta;Alexander Tonkins;Johannes C. Jansen

  • High-Performance Membranes from Polyimides with Intrinsic Microporosity

    Bader S. Ghanem;Neil B. McKeown;Peter M. Budd;James D. Selbie

  • Near-frictionless ion transport within triazine framework membranes

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  • Triptycene-based polymers of intrinsic microporosity: organic materials that can be tailored for gas adsorption

    Bader Ghanem;Bader Ghanem;Mohammed Hashem;Kenneth David Maclean Harris;Kadhum Msayib

  • Engineering of dendrimer surfaces to enhance transepithelial transport and reduce cytotoxicity.

    Rachaneekorn Jevprasesphant;Jeffrey Penny;David Attwood;Neil B. McKeown

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Budd
Peter M. Budd University of Manchester
Frank Marken
Frank Marken University of Bath
Johannes C. Jansen
Johannes C. Jansen National Research Council (CNR)
Bader Ghanem
Bader Ghanem King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
David Attwood
David Attwood University of Manchester
Daping He
Daping He Wuhan University of Technology
Benson M. Kariuki
Benson M. Kariuki Cardiff University
John E. Warren
John E. Warren University of Manchester
Guy J. Clarkson
Guy J. Clarkson University of Warwick
James Runt
James Runt Pennsylvania State University

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