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UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Art Ragauskas and other researchers are exploring ways to generate a profit from lignin, which is currently regarded as waste.


The Zawodzinski Group in CBE has made several advancements in fuel cell design, particularly in polymer electrolytes, electrodes, and catalysts.


Prados Professor Gila Stein’s research seeks to understand how properties of thin polymer films control the progression of chemical reactions to predict how new materials will perform.


Ferguson Fellow and Associate Professor Cong Trinh is developing a method to improve the time involved in both identification and removal of pathogens through the concept of a Virulent Pathogen Resistance program, or ViPaRe.


Overview of the soft materials research being performed within the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.


Research by UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining Arthur Ragauskas will be included in the Fall/Winter 2016 edition of Quest Research Magazine.


Stephen J. Paddison, the Gibson Endowed Chair in Engineering, was recently appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.


The National Science Foundation selected Associate Professor Cong Trinh for a prestigious NSF CAREER award, given to promising young faculty members as a way to support their research.


Associate Professor Steven Abel’s research group uses theoretical and computational methods to understand how biological cells interact with their environment.


Students and faculty from CBE recently got a chance to travel to FIPR to test a developmental process for rare earth recovery from an alternative source.