News
Nov 30, 2017
Sani Wins Best Poster Award at MRS
Chemical Engineering PhD student Ehsan Shirzaei Sani received Best Poster Award at the 2017 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting and Exhibit earlier this week in Boston. Sani, a member of the Annabi Lab, presented on his project entitled, "Engineering sprayable and antimicrobial naturally-derived hydrogel adhesives." ABSTRACT: Chronic wounds are estimated to affect 6.5 million patients in the U.S […]
Nov 29, 2017
Improving the Life of Batteries
ChE DiPietro Assistant Professor Joshua Gallaway is researching how batteries work and what will make them run better. Source: News @ Northeastern Batteries, says electrochemist Joshua Gallaway, are essential to our everyday lives in ways they weren’t decades ago. Small batteries run our computers and cellphones, while huge batteries could power electric grids. Yet, the […]
Nov 21, 2017
Northeastern Joins Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations
Northeastern joined NSF’s Center for Disruptive Musculoskeletal Innovations (CDMI) as an affiliate site under the leadership of ChE Chair and Professor Thomas Webster.
Nov 21, 2017
Sirumalla Awarded $5000 in Amazon Web Services Credit
Chemical Engineering MS student Krishna Sirumalla, won an award of $5000 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credit to develop his project, “Predicting Kinetics Using Graph Convolutions on Transition State Graphs.” This three-part project will utilize AWS’s service Elastic Compute (EC2). In this project, Sirumalla is representing a transition state of chemical reaction as a graph and storing the […]
Nov 20, 2017
Ian McDonald awarded Judge’s Choice in "Magnetism as Art" Showcase
Interdisciplinary PhD student Ian J McDonald of the Nanomagnetism Group, led by ChE/MIE Professor Laura H. Lewis, won the Judge’s Choice in the “Magnetism as Art” Showcase at the Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.
Nov 16, 2017
Hung Awarded American Chemical Society Funding
ChE Associate Professor Francisco Hung was awarded a $110K grant from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund for “Understanding Novel Shale Hydration Inhibitors for Water-Based Drilling Fluids Using Molecular Simulation.”
Nov 14, 2017
Annabi Receives C-DOCTOR Funding for Development of Dental Applications Biomaterial
ChE Assistant Professor Nasim Annabi received a $150K grant from the Center for Dental, Oral, & Craniofacial Tissue & Organ Regeneration (C-DOCTOR) for a project entitled “An osteoconductive growth factor-free antimicrobial adhesive for treatment of peri-implantitis”.
Nov 08, 2017
Michael Ploch Conducts Research at the Army Research Lab
Chemical Engineering PhD student and member of the Lustig Lab, Michael Ploch has begun a six-month research internship at the Army Research Lab (ARL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. As part of Associate Professor Steve Lustig’s continued collaboration with the ARL, Ploch is currently studying the mechanics of Kevlar® fibers. The first part of Ploch’s project […]