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Versatile ‘Nanocrystal Gel’ Could Enable Advances in Energy, Defense and Telecommunications
New applications in energy, defense and telecommunications could receive a boost after a team at The University of Texas at Austin created a new type of “nanocrystal gel” — a gel composed of tiny nanocrystals each 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair that are linked together into an organized network.
Professor Joan Brennecke Honored Among Top Inventors
Joan Brennecke, professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, has been selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a prestigious distinction awarded to a select group of 164 academic innovators around the world for 2021.
New Way to Pull Lithium from Water Could Increase Supply, Efficiency
Anyone using a cellphone, laptop or electric vehicle depends on lithium. The element is in tremendous demand. And although the supply of lithium around the world is plentiful, getting access to it and extracting it remains a challenging and inefficient process.
An interdisciplinary team of engineers and scientists is developing a way to extract lithium from contaminated water. New research, published this week in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, could simplify the process of extracting lithium from aqueous brines, potentially create a much larger supply and reduce costs of the element for batteries to power electric vehicles, electronics and a wide range of other devices.
Like Father, Like Daughter: Texas ChE Alumni Share Unique Legacy
Corrinne and her father, Craig, now share a unique experience that few father-daughter duos can tout: they are both graduates of the Cockrell School’s McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering.
Biotech senior research scientist and Texas ChE alum, Dr. Julie Fogarty, talks with Ph.D. student Dalton Towers.
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TexasChE Alum Toni "TJ" Crawford and student Oreoluwa Adetutu talk in our first Texas ChE-ck In
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Research Areas
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Advanced Materials, Polymers & Nanotechnology
Design and synthesis of inorganic and polymeric materials at the molecular level to achieve desirable properties for a wide range of applications
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Biotechnology
Applying chemical engineering principles for the development of biochemical processes and biomedical applications
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Energy
The development of photovoltaics, catalysts for fuels from sunlight, and electrical energy generation and storage systems engineering for energy efficiency
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Environmental Engineering
Programs to understand the fundamental science and engineering of air and water pollution, and to develop data for informed policy decisions. Process development for CO2 capture and sequestration
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Modeling & Simulation
The development and application of multiscale models and high performance computational simulations spanning atomic to continuum time and length scales
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Process Engineering
Design, modeling, optimization, and control of petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and microelectronic processes
News
Texas ChE Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering is proud to announce three new faculty members who will join the department in 2023 and 2024.
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Eliminating CO2 Emissions from Manufacturing the Goal of Major Research Alliance
An alliance of nine universities, three national labs and 37 companies will tackle one of the biggest hurdles to decarbonizing manufacturing: carbon dioxide emissions from generating process heat.
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Class of 2023: Where are they Headed?
2023 graduates experienced college differently. In March of 2020 COVID abruptly halted in-person classes...
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Strategic Seed Grant Research Program Bolsters Energy Innovation Initiatives
The Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin announces its 2023 Strategic Energy Seed Grant Program research teams, made possible by corporate partners Chevron, Shell, SLB and longtime University of Texas at Austin supporters ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips.
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