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Congratulations to Dr. Haley Vapnik for a successful PhD defense! August 1, 2023
2023 Summer Chemical Engineering Camp! July 31, 2023
Photoelectrochemical redox-mediated separations published in Small! July 23, 2023
Redox-Copolymers for Nanofiltration-based Electrodialysis published in ACS Energy Letters! July 23, 2023
Congrats to Nayeong and Paola for CDI&E Awards! July 23, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Raylin Chen for a successful PhD defense! June 24, 2023
Congratulations to our first defense and newly minted PhD: Dr. Stephen Cotty! June 21, 2023
ACS Unilever Award and AIChE FRI/John G. Kunesh Award! June 21, 2023
Chiral metallopolymers for redox-mediated enantioselectivity published in Advanced Functional Materials! May 31, 2023
Electrochemical capture of long-chain PFAS published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! May 31, 2023
Electrochemical separation of short-chain PFAS published in JACS! March 29, 2023
Electrochemical reactive separation of nitrate to ammonium published in Nature Communications! February 24, 2023
Functional membranes for the electrochemical recovery of organic acids published in Advanced Functional Materials! February 24, 2023
Selective electrochemical recovery of gold for sustainable mining and electronic waste recycling! February 24, 2023
Electrochemical homogeneous catalyst recycling published in Science Advances! December 28, 2022
Congrats to Riccardo, Jemin, and Jiho for 2022-2023 Fellowships! September 25, 2022
Comparative evaluation of electrochemical PFAS degradation methods published in Langmuir! September 25, 2022
Reviews on electrochemical separations and photocatalysts for wastewater treatment published! September 25, 2022
Congrats to Raylin for ChBE Graduate Student Teaching Award! June 18, 2022
Congrats to Nayeong for TechnipFMC Fellowship! June 18, 2022
Congrats to Anaira and Darien for NSF GRFP! June 18, 2022
Our electrochemical battery recycling paper is highlighted by Nature Communications! February 28, 2022
Redox-active metallopolymers for organic phase electrochemistry published in Polymer! February 28, 2022
Filtration membranes morph like cells! February 28, 2022
ISE-Elsevier Prize for Green Electrochemistry! January 17, 2022
Congrats to Kwiyong, Haley, and Riccardo for ChBE departmental awards! January 17, 2022
Sustainable electrochemical recycling of lithium-ion batteries published in Nature Communications! January 17, 2022
Electrochemical separations for biomanufacturing published in Emerging Stars Issue of CERD! January 17, 2022
Invited review on PFAS remediation published in Electrochimica Acta! January 17, 2022
Redox-copolymers for REE recovery published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A: Emerging Investigators issue! October 24, 2021
Electrochemically-assisted remediation of GenX published in Emerging Investigator Series in ESWRT! October 24, 2021
Electrochemically-mediated valorization of whey highlighted by UIUC News! October 23, 2021
Electrochemically-assisted MOFs for cadmium remediation published in Chemical Engineering Journal! June 22, 2021
iScience review on electrochemical approaches for selective metal recovery! June 22, 2021
Congrats to Paola and Jemin for 2021 CDI&E Conference awards! May 22, 2021
2021 Virtual CDI&E Conference was successfully held 9-13 May! May 22, 2021
Congrats to Emmanuel for receiving his M.S. Degree! May 22, 2021
Raylin receives the 2021 A. T. Widiger Chemical Engineering Fellowship! April 1, 2021
Paola wins Grainger College of Engineering GIANT grant! April 1, 2021
Electrochemical multicomponent metal separations published in Advanced Functional Materials! February 9, 2021
Parametric investigation on MC-MCDI desalination published in Desalination! February 5, 2021
Congrats to the Su group for winning the 2020 ChBE food drive! December 22, 2020
Continuous electrochemical lithium recovery published in Chemical Engineering Journal! November 21, 2020
Electrochemical separations for metal recycling published in ECS Interface! November 21, 2020
Paola is a winner in the ChBE 2020 graduate research symposium! November 21, 2020
Electrochemically-assisted mercury remediation published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! October 24, 2020
Molecular tuning of copolymers for separation of PFAS published in Advanced Functional Materials! October 24, 2020
Anaira, Darien, and Nayeong join the group! October 24, 2020
Kwiyong receives the NRF Postdoctoral Fellowship! August 24, 2020
Paola receives the 2020 SACNAS scholarship! August 24, 2020
Viktor K. LaMer Award and NES Scialog Conference! August 11, 2020
Recent publications! June 12, 2020
Paola receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! April 1, 2020
Riccardo graduates Summa Cum Laude and successfully defends Masters Thesis! March 27, 2020
Matt Brucks wins Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) Gauss S. Kass Scholarship! March 27, 2020
Arsenic separations work highlighted by UIUC news! February 6, 2020
NSF CAREER Award! December 30, 2019
Invited review of electrosorption for heavy metal removal accepted in ESWRT! December 19, 2019
Paola and Jemin join the Su group! December 12, 2019
Electrochemically-mediated reactive separations work accepted in Advanced Materials! December 12, 2019