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Saunders named in Forbes Under 30 list for leading the green energy transition
Tunkie Saunders leads metallurgy development at Redwood Materials, a Nevada-based company, founded by JB Straubel, that is building a lithium-ion battery recycling process, devised by Tunkie, to extract lithium selectively from old batteries, in a pure form. Read more
McGehee and Toney recognized as highly cited researchers
Two faculty from ChBE were recognized at highly cited researchers for 2021. Read more
McGehee named highly cited researcher at NREL
Eight researchers affiliated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are on this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers, with many familiar names from the 2020 list. Read more
White Group applies controlled electric fields to liquid crystal elastomers for actuation and 3-D deformation
Hayden Fowler, a graduate student in Gallogly Professor Timothy White’s Responsive and Programmable Materials Group, is the first author on a research paper published in Advanced Materials concerning the temperature-independent electrical actuation of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), which are soft, stimuli-responsive materials with potential applications in soft robotics, artificial muscles and more. Read more
Hrenya recognized as Fellow of the American Physical Society
Professor Christine Hrenya was selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) this year “for key advancements in the fundamental understanding of granular matter and multiphase systems via a combination of theory, experiments and simulations,” according to the official citation. Fellow selections are an exclusive honor, limited to no more than one half of one percent of APS membership. Read more
Day awarded Teets Family Endowed Doctoral Fellowship for work in nanotechnology
Nicole Day, a third-year graduate student in the Shields Lab, is the 2021-2022 recipient of the Teets Family Endowed Doctoral Fellowship. The fellowship provides $15,000 a year for two years to support deserving students working in the nanotechnology field. Read more
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