1. LFR MEIPA 1 L ABORATOIRE F RANCO -R USSE « MEMBRANES ECHANGEUSES D IONS ET PROCÉDÉS ASSOCIES » French-Russian Laboratory Ion-exchange Membranes and Related Processes Responsables: Prof Gérald POURCELLY, Institut Européen des Membranes, Montpellier, France Prof. Victor NIKONENKO, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia Type of Collaboration: LIA

2. 2 Partners institutions and teams France Institut Européen des Membranes, IEMM, UMR 5635 CNRS / UM2; Montpellier Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux de Paris Est, ICMPE UMR 7182 CNRS / Paris 12; Paris Russia Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, KubSU, Krasnodar Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, IGIC, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow LFR MEIPA

3. Paris, 29-30 September 20103 Scientific Objectives and Tasks Main Subjects & Objectives: Ion-exchange membranes (IEM) are widely used in water and industrial effluents treatment, in agro-alimentary industry (juice and wine conditioning, milk and dairy products treatment), in the health and energy domains, and in the green chemistry. The activity of the LFR MEIPA is aimed at the generation of new knowledge pertinent for elaboration of novel membranes with optimized properties (via varying structure, chemical nature, surface asymmetry and topography) associated with optimized physico-chemical conditions of operation (electric and hydrodynamic) Distribution of tasks between French and Russian teams: IEMM: surface modification by plasma, deposition of functionalized structures on the surface, optimization of electric and hydrodynamic conditions; ICMPE: development of functional (meso)porous crosslinked polymers; structure- properties relation and impact on global membrane behavior; KubSU : design of membranes with controlled rate of water splitting; IEMs with profiled surface; mathematical modeling of transport in membrane system;. IGIC: chemical treatment and introduction of nano- and micro-particles onto the surface and bulk of IEMs to obtain organiс-inorganiс composite membranes with enhanced transport rate. LFR MEIPA

4. OSEO – FASIE cooperation Creation of bipolar membranes with nano- and microsized particles of catalyst of water dissociation reaction and electromembrane processes for food organic acids as precursors to biodegradable polymers production and for pH correction of solutions in food, chemical industry and heat-power engineering Partners: –Eurodia Industrie S.A., France –Membrane Technology Innovation Enterprise, Krasnodar, Russia State: no clear decision on the side of OSEO FASIE: Russian State Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises 4

5. CoTraPhen FP7 (MARIE CURIE ACTIONS) project International Research Staff Exchange Scheme Coupled Ion- and Volume-Transfer Phenomena in Heterogeneous Systems: Modelling, Experiment and Applications in Clean Energy, Micro-Analysis and Water Treatment Coordinator: Prof. A. Yaroshchuk, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain State: supported, start Jule 1, 2011 Type & Short title of the project5

6. FP7- MARIE CURIE ACTIONS 6

7. Objective: to facilitate the knowledge transfer among partners to make possible the integration of different elements into a self consistent and comprehensive model of coupled ion and volume transfer phenomena in heterogeneous systems. 7