News
- While solar panels have traditionally used silicon-based cells, researchers are increasingly looking to perovskite-based solar cells to create panels that are more efficient, less expensive to produce and can be manufactured at the scale needed to power the world.
- Where do bodily tissues get their strength? New °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ research provides important new clues to this long-standing mystery, identifying how specialized proteins called cadherins join forces to make cells stick—and stay stuck—together.
- Erica McNamee, a junior in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, is among 44 undergraduates selected for the Brooke Owens Fellowship Class of 2021.
- Distinguished Professor Christopher Bowman of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions accorded to engineers.
- Professor Kristi Anseth will be the recipient of the prestigious Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2021 meeting.
- The Department of Energy followed up with Prof. Hayward to discuss his Early Career Award.
- It’s been an eventful and challenging year. Since March, like everyone else, we’ve had to make major changes to how we operate during the pandemic. This has involved radical changes to how we teach and learn. It has also had a significant impact on research in our laboratories.
- Next summer, renowned chemist and researcher Seth Marder will join the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute as director and will begin joint appointments at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a senior research fellow and at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Department of Chemistry.
- An international team of researchers including Professor Michael Toney has developed a new technique for precisely tracking the movement of ions within batteries, a discovery that may have far-reaching impacts on how safe and efficient batteries are developed.
- Department alumnus Professor H. Scott Fogler (PhDChemEngr'65) was recently named a Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Michigan Association of State Universities, a prestigious honor among faculty members working in public university undergraduate education.