Separator firm Microporous announced the appointment of Sunho Choi as product development manager on September 15, to work at the company’s Piney Flats facility in Tennessee.

Sunho has researched and worked in membranes and absorbents development for 17 years, specifically in polymer/inorganic/mixed matrix membrane thin films and hollow fibres, micro/nano-porous inorganic-organic hybrids, and metal organic frameworks.

He joins the company after nine years at Northeastern University in Boston, where he administered nanomaterial R&D processes supervising a team of more than 60 scientists and engineers, among other things.

He has won three US/world patents and been featured in more than 25 journal publications with more than 4,000 citations.

“Sunho’s main mission and deliverables in his new role at Microporous will be imparting fundamental materials engineering and membrane film process expertise to stage gate product and process development project teams during the design and implementation phases of the programs,” said Microporous.

“His fundamental understanding of membrane technology will be brought to bear in enhancing and developing further the cutting-edge Microporous portfolio of technical separator products.”

In June, Microporous said a new PE separator line was fully functional at the Tennessee site, and would double capacity for the US market.