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UF engineers reach semi-finals in XPRIZE Contest for new COVID-19 test methods; their CRISPR-ENHANCE methodology published in Nature Communications journal THE CHALLENGE XPRIZE RAPID COVID TESTING COMPETITION TEAMS ARE LOCATED AROUND THE GLOBE. According to a survey conducted in July 2020 (pdf) by researchers from Northeastern, Harvard, Rutgers, and Northwestern universities, testing (and especially testing […]

Originally published by ECS The Electrochemical Society Mark Orazem, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor and the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Edie Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, and his student William Watson published their ground-breaking impedance spectroscopy measurement model program, “EIS: Measurement Model Program.” It is available at no […]

Dear colleagues, alumni, and friends, As we navigate through the uncertainties that this year has brought us, we are happy to share another edition of our newsletter and celebrate the hard-fought departmental wins.  We are astounded at the resilience and innovation of our faculty, students and staff. They have risen to the challenge of providing […]

As the world was closing down because of the global pandemic, the faculty at the UF Department of Chemical Engineering was coming up with new ways to continue delivering the same high-quality education while remaining physically distant.  As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention.  The challenge: juniors and seniors in chemical engineering […]

Mark Orazem, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor and the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Edie Professor at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering, was awarded a three-year research contract from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) of Canada to develop a damage model of copper corrosion within nuclear fuel waste containers placed in deep […]

Nedgine Joseph, a senior in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, is one of 50 students who was selected to attend the Women+ of Color Project (WOCP) virtual Graduate School 101 Workshop on October 10-12, 2020. Participants chosen for the workshop were among some of the best and brightest emerging scholars and […]

Five University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering students won awards from the NanoFlorida Conference on Sept. 25, 2020. Congratulations to Andrew Garcia (Honorable Mention in Materials, Devices, and Enabling Technologies); Calen Leverant (Honorable Mention in Materials, Devices, and Enabling Technologies Awards); Stephen Michel (Best Overall Undergraduate Awards); Gibson Scisco (First Place in Environmental, Agriculture, and Energy); and Minghan […]

Chemical Engineering Ph.D. candidate Patrick H. Carey, IV received the 2019 Best Student Paper Award for his paper and presentation “Extreme Temperature Operation of Ultra-Wide Bandgap AlGaN High Electron Mobility Transistors”at the 2019 International Conference on Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (CS MANTECH) in Minneapolis, MN. Carey and coauthors, Drs. Fan Ren and Stephen Pearton of UF, and Drs. Albert Baca, Brianna […]

Ranga Narayanan, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor and the William P. and Tracy Cirioli Term Professor at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering (UF ChE) has been awarded a major grant from the National Science Foundation to study gravitational effects on the Faraday instability. When two immiscible liquids are subject to an oscillating mechanical […]

The Hawaiian bobtail squid is a glowing example of aquatic symbiosis. It stands out as a unique cephalopod that lives with a light organ run by a luminescent bacterium, or microbes. The bacterium allows the squid to use light as camouflage against predators. A team of researchers has received a $550,000 grant by the Gordon […]

Kirk J. Ziegler, Ph.D., the Dow Chemical Company Foundation Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies at the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering (UF CHE) is leading a $581,500 grant from the National Science Foundation titled: Measuring the Surface Energy of Metals through Structure-Property Analysis of Electrodeposition Instabilities. “Surface energy is one of […]

Dmitry Kopelevich, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Florida Department of Chemical Engineering (UF CHE) is leading a grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund titled: Investigation of Mechanisms of Shear-Induced Diffusion in non-Brownian Suspensions. Particle suspensions in liquids have a wide array of applications in oil exploration and production. When suspended […]

Peng Jiang, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, was awarded a grant from the Space Research Initiative (SRI seed fund) to develop a colorimetric shear stress sensor for aerodynamic measurements. “The advantages of this sensor would be that it is ultra-thin, inexpensive, and of a conformal nature that […]

Piyush Jain, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida, has been awarded a grant from the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation to develop a CRISPR-based urine test for early detection of breast cancer. “There is an urgent need to develop a non-invasive, sensitive and specific screening strategy for […]

The chairman of Tropical Smoothie Café believes in balance – work, family, service, social life – and the power of free frappé to lift spirits. by David Finnerty This spring as the coronavirus tormented nations and stretched hospitals to their snapping points, Scott Pressly made smoothies. Dozens became hundreds. Each, to the health workers he […]