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The petrol industry recognizes the importance of para-xylene, given its many uses in everyday products, from plastic soda bottles to polyester fiber. The challenge is that xylenes travel in threes and are virtually identical, making it extremely…
The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking is hosting a virtual talk and discussion series entitled “The Book: Past, Present, and Future.” The series explores the forms and purposes of books as methods of communication. Scholars with expertise in…
The Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology at Georgia Tech has announced the winners for the 2021 Spring Facility Seed Grants. The primary purpose of this program is to give first- or second-year graduate students in diverse disciplines…
1. What is your field of expertise and at what point in your life did you first become interested in this area? Polymers. I worked with polymers in my PhD, but only used them as carrier materials and never dug deeper into the science or their…
Effective July 1, 2021, Krista Walton, associate dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering, Robert "Bud" Moeller Faculty Fellow, and professor, will serve as interim chair for the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering…
Jiwoo Yu, Ph.D., a graduate of the Paper Science and Engineering program within the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently published an article on “Water Treatment via Non-membrane Inorganic Nanoparticles/…
Udita Ringania, a Ph.D. candidate funded by the Renewable Bioproducts Institute’s (RBI) Paper Science & Engineering (PSE) Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology won the 2021 Blue Sky Young Researchers and Innovation Award. The award is…
Georgia Tech’s Institute for Materials (IMat), with generous support from BASF, is pleased to announce the 2021 IMat Graduate Student Fellows (IGSF). The 4 awardees will receive a $3K direct funding grant to supplement their existing monthly…
Researchers in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) are principal investigators on six new projects that have been awarded a total of $4.35 million for studies related to direct air capture science and technology.…
Professor Krista Walton of Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering is one of eight U.S. scientists and engineers to receive the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award this year for contributions in research and development supporting…
