Amaury Ochoa defends his Master’s degree final project at the University of Valencia: Progress on PVDF-based electrospun membranes with green solvents.
The MATS Research Group has announced that Amaury Ochoa successfully defended his Master’s degree final project as part of the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering of the University of Valencia on September 2025.
The project, titled “Development of PVDF-based electrospun membranes and their consolidation by hot-pressing method”, focused on the development and the subsequent treatment of PVDF-based electrospun nanofiber membranes utilising green solvent systems. With this project, Ochoa has contributed with rekevant results to the field of sustainable membrane fabrication.
The research analysed the influence of the solvent’s composition, the concentration of polymers and the electrospinning parameters on the membranes’ morphology and properties. Additionally, a consolidation treatment by hot-pressing method was applied, which allowed for the improvement of the compaction and mechanical stability of the membranes, all while conserving adequate properties for their integration gas-liquid separators.
The Master’s degree final project was directed by Marta Izquierdo Sanchis and Óscar Gil Castell, and Félix E. Montero Rocca participated as an external supervisor. This project is framed within the lines of research of the MATS Research Group, oriented to developing more sustainable membrane technologies: CarbonBrane (PID2021-1224950A-I00).
Here at the MATS Research Group we want to congratulate Amaury Ochoa for this achievement and we wish him lots of success in his academic and professional future.
