Professor Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman of the Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has received the 2026 Science & Technology Award from the Malaysia Toray Science Foundation for his contributions to separation engineering and functional materials science.
His laboratory designs and optimises ceramic, polymeric and hollow-fibre membranes, very fine filters able to separate substances at microscopic level.
The membranes are aimed at purifying industrial effluent, desalinating seawater, reclaiming clean water and separating gases selectively, using less energy than conventional industrial processes and supporting circular-economy and zero-liquid-discharge practices.
