March, 2024 - Dr. Tina Nenoff was elected to the National Academy of Engineers. Details can be found here. Congratulations!
February, 2024 - Dr. David Sholl was elected to the National Academy of Engineers. Details can be found here. Congratulations!
November, 2023 - Dr. Sean Wood has joined UNCAGE-ME as the new Managing Director. Welcome aboard!
October, 2023 - Prof. Ryan Lively gave departmental seminars at the University of Kentucky and the University of Arkansas. The title of the talk was “Membrane technologies are key enablers of the energy transition”.
October, 2023 - Prof. Chris Jones delivered several departmental seminars at the University of Oklahoma and Michigan State University. He also delivered the ICI Lectures in the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta. His presentations focused on direct air capture of CO2.
September, 2023 - Prof. Chris Jones and his research group were awarded the 2023 AIChE Institute Award in Industrial Gases, in recognition of their work on direct air capture of CO2.
September, 2023 - Prof. David Sholl has been appointed to lead an Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, focused on developing sustainable industrial chemical processes with reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Check out details here. Congratulations!
September, 2023 - Prof. Krista Walton has been named associate vice president for Research Operations and Infrastructure for Georgia Tech. In her new position, Prof. Walton will ensure effective and strategic support for research faculty and staff related to operations, infrastructure, and administration. Read full story here.
September, 2023 - Prof. Ryan Lively gave a seminar at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The title of the talk was "Direct air capture: A challenge of unprecedented scale."
August, 2023 - Prof. Christopher Joneswas selected as the recipient of the 2023 Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Check out details here.
August, 2023 - Porous liquids, an emerging liquid-phase material for carbon capture, were featured for the first time in a stand-alone international symposium at the ACS Fall Meeting held in San Francisco, CA. Organized by Jessica M. Rimsza and Tina M. Nenoff, both from Sandia National Laboratories, the symposium titled “The Structure, Properties, and Applications of Porous Liquids” featured 10+ talks over two days on the fundamental properties and recent applications of these intriguing systems.
August, 2023 - Prof. Gilliard-AbdulAziz from the University of California Riverside received the DOE Early Career Award. Check out the research abstract here. Congratulations!
July,2023 - Prof. Ryan Lively gave a series of lectures in Taiwan and Japan recently, including a seminar at the National Taiwan University, a plenary at the annual meeting of the Taiwanese Filtration and Separation Society, and a keynote at the 2023 International Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes in Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan.
July, 2023 - The Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) has released its first Multi-Year Program Plan. Prof. David Sholl was the lead author for this document, which defines OCED's strategy for its existing portfolio of more than $25 billion in clean energy demonstration projects and for developing future additions to this portfolio.
July, 2023 - Prof. Chris Joneswas selected as the recipient of the 2023 Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology from AIChE. He will receive the award at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Congratulations!
July, 2023 - Emmanuel Aransiola, graduate student from the Baltrusaitis Group at Lehigh University received a travel award from the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy. Congratulations Emmanuel!
July, 2023 - Prof. David Flaherty and his research group have moved from UIUC to Georgia Tech. Welcome to Atlanta!
June, 2023 - Prof. David Sholl has been appointed as Interim Director of UT-ORII, a joint ORNL/UT organization that was set up with funding from the DOE and the state of Tennessee. More details can be found here. Congratulations!
May, 2023 - Prof. Ryan Lively gave the departmental seminar at EPFL (Sion, Switzerland). The title of the seminar was “Direct air capture: the challenge of unprecedented scale.”
April, 2023 - Hyun June Moon, graduate student from the Jones Group at Georgia Tech got the Best Paper Award at the EFRC Annual All-Hands Meeting held in Atlanta. Matthew Christian, a postdoctoral researcher from the Rimsza Group at Sandia National Labs got the runner-up award. Congratulations Hyun June and Matt!
March, 2023 - Prof. Ryan Livelygave an invited talk at the APS March Meeting titled “Membrane-based fractionation of complex mixtures” and a seminar at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory titled “The Refinery of Today, Tomorrow, and the Future”.
March, 2023 - Dr. Tina Nenoff from Sandia National Laboratories has been chosen as the science advisor to Jill Hruby, Under Secretary for DOE and Administrator for the National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA). Check out details here. Congratulations!
February, 2023 - Prof. Christopher W. Jones, the John F. Brock III School Chair in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected for the 2023 Distinguished Researcher Award from the Energy & Fuels (ENFL) Division of the American Chemical Society. Check out details here. Congratulations!
January, 2023 - Prof. Ryan Lively was appointed to the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. Congratulations!
January, 2023 - Prof. Christopher Jonesfrom Georgia Techwas interviewed for the NTNU Energy Transition Podcast to introduce the concept of DAC, or direct air capture of CO2. This is the first of a four part series on DAC as a climate change mitigation technology. Listen to the podcast here.
December, 2022 - Matthew Christian and Jessica Rimsza from Sandia National Laboratories received a National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) allocation to perform molecular scale calculations supporting UNCAGE-ME. The award includes computing time for collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lehigh University and University of Alabama. Congratulations Matthew and Jessica!
December, 2022 - Rishi Guirnani, a graduate student from the Ramprasad Group at Georgia Tech was selected as the Gold Medal winner for the best presentation at the 2nd International Forum in Energy & Informatics. Check out details here. Congratulations Rishi!
October, 2022 - Tina Nenoff from Sandia National Laboratories was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article titled “These Tiny Ultra-Porous Crystals Could Transform Cancer Treatments and More” where she discusses the potential of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for different engineering applications! Check it out here!