Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Moon Research Lab
Led by Joshua Moon · Chemical Engineering
What we study
The Moon Research Lab designs advanced polymer materials for clean water, energy, and environmental sustainability. They use modular polymer synthesis and experimental tools to study transport properties at molecular and macroscopic scales.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
PFAS separations
Designs polymer adsorbents that capture PFAS, the persistent chemicals sometimes called forever chemicals, from water, using modular polymer synthesis and experiments that measure how molecules move through the material.
Dynamic PIM membranes
Mitigating aging in PIM gas separation membranes by incorporating reversible crosslinks.
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Polymer ionic liquid membranes
Designing membranes to uncover fundamental gas transport mechanisms.
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Recent papers, explained
- Chemically Modular, Nonfluorinated Polymer Adsorbents for Capturing Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances ( PFAS )
2026 · Energy & environment materials
Designs nonfluorinated polymers to capture PFAS in water.
- Mechanisms of CO2 facilitated transport using membranes: A review
2026 · Polymer
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- CO2-selective transport in PEGDA facilitated transport membranes post-functionalized using click chemistry
2025 · Journal of Membrane Science
- Solution‐Like Water Transport Across Molecular to Macroscopic Length Scales in Crosslinked Poly(Ethylene Glycol Diacrylate) Networks With Tailored Sidechains
2025 · Journal of Polymer Science
Measures water movement in PEG-based materials using spin labels.
- 3D Printing of Functional Hydrogel Devices for Screenings of Membrane Permeability and Selectivity
2024 · ACS Applied Polymer Materials
Uses 3D printing to make hydrogel devices for testing membrane permeability.
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