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- This year marks the 25th anniversary of the revamped and retooled Chemical Engineering Design Project course 鈥 a class (re)designed to provide seniors with practical problem-solving experience and foster stronger ties to industry.
- Postdocs and graduate students combined art, movement, dance and science for students from the Boulder Valley School District.
- A Road Toward Sustainability 鈥 from Materials to Processes Speaker: Juan Manuel Restrepo-Fl贸rez, Postdoctoral Associate University of Wisconsin-Madison Host: Will Medlin Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - 2:45 p.m.,
- Computational Engineering of Materials at the Nanoscale鈥攚here 鈥淐lassical鈥 meets 鈥淨uantum鈥 Speaker: Elizabeth Lee, Postdoctoral Researcher University of Chicago Host: Kayla Sprenger Thursday, March 3, 2022
- Improved understanding of transport in concentrated electrolyte solutions has important implications for energy storage, water purification, biological applications, and more. This understanding should ideally persist across length scales: we desire both continuum-level insight into macroscopic concentration and electric potential profiles as well as a molecular-level understanding of the mechanisms governing ion motion. However, the most ubiquitous theory to describe continuum-level electrolyte transport, the Stefan-Maxwell equations, yields transport coefficients which lack clear molecular-level interpretation and cannot be easily computed from molecular simulations.
- Hydrogen has long been seen as a possible renewable fuel source, held out of reach for full-scale adoption by production costs and inefficiencies. Researchers in the Weimer Group are working to address this by using solar thermal processing to drive high-temperature chemical reactions that produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which can be used to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels.
- Eight cross-disciplinary teams working to advance fundamental science in the removal of greenhouse gases from Earth鈥檚 atmosphere and oceans will receive awards totaling $1,210,000 in the second year of the Scialog: Negative Emissions Science initiative, sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with additional support from the Climate Pathfinders Foundation. The 22 individual awards of $55,000 will go to 20 researchers from a variety of institutions in the United States and Canada. Among the awardees is Adam Holewinski, Chemical & Biological Engineering, 精品SM在线影片.
- Climate change demands a paradigm change in the chemical industry and waste stream valorization.
- Reverse osmosis modules comprised of composite polymer membranes represent a leading technology in desalination and purification of brackish water.
- The covalent attachment of polymers has emerged as a powerful strategy for the preparation of multi-functional surfaces.