Category Archives: Research
Spinning Biomass into Gold
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.
Supercharged: Zawodzinski Group Building a Better Battery
The Zawodzinski Group in CBE has made several advancements in fuel cell design, particularly in polymer electrolytes, electrodes, and catalysts.
Little Things Matter
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.
Cong Trinh Takes Aim at Diseases
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.
It’s a Soft Materials World
Overview of the soft materials research being performed within the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Ragauskas included in Quest Research Magazine
Research by UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining Arthur Ragauskas will be included in the Fall/Winter 2016 edition of Quest Research Magazine.
Paddison Appointed RSC Fellow
Stephen J. Paddison, the Gibson Endowed Chair in Engineering, was recently appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
National Science Foundation Selects Trinh for CAREER Award
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.
Faculty Feature: Steven Abel
Associate Professor Steven Abel’s research group uses theoretical and computational methods to understand how biological cells interact with their environment.
The Counce Research Group: Testing at FIPR
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.