Recycling

Biography

Thomas Zemb has obtained his master in nuclear engineering at ETH-Zurich, his thesis in biophysics at Institut Curie in 1978 and his habilitation in 1985 in solid state physics at the age of 32 years. He is Founding Director of the Institute for Separation Chemistry (ICSM), a joint venture between University of Montpellier, Atomic energy and alternative energy commission,  CNRS and ENSCM. Full professor in colloids at  INSTN since 1992. He designed and built several small angle scattering cameras specially designed to measure the weak scattering produced by aggregated extractant molecules. .  He designed, built and used several original small angle scattering cameras specially designed to measure the weak scattering produced by aggregated extractant molecules.

-Humboldt-Gay Lussac price 2008 working at Max Planck in Potsdam and at University of Regensburg.  -European Colloid Solvay Price for the understanding and usage of catanionic solids in 2003

-Thomas Graham medal in 2013 for the starting of ienaics approach of separation and recycling. 

-Overbeek Gold medal for colloids and interfaces received in 2017 linked to the 300+ publications in international journals that appeared since the first one devoted in 1972 to zeolithes as possible storage  material for paramagnetic wastes

Abstract

Abstract : Towards greener liquid-liquid extraction using hydrotopes and synergism between amphiphiles