Green Research Group

Congratulations to Kacie, Marlene on their recent article in Macromolecular Rapid Communications:

The Green Research Group recently educated the local Phoenix community with hands-on Chemistry demonstrations as part of the ASU Open Door event on February 22nd. Translating exciting science for all ages and backgrounds by engaging local residents in fun experiments, the group fostered curiosity.

Michael’s review article on 2D coordination polymers was published online today in Applied Physics Review! This article is in collaboration with Prof. Sef Tongay at ASU.

Meng Wang contributed to work in collaboration with Profs. Wang and Rykaczewski that was published in Advanced Materials! Congrats all!

Our proposal to the USBR DWPR program was funded to make and test various membranes for pervaporative desalination of inland brackish water. We will collaborate with Profs. Perrault and Lind at ASU as well as Prof. Verduzco (Rice University) and Prof. Walker (UTEP). We are excited to start this project in the fall!

Alexis’ paper on silica nanoparticle-loaded PEG networks was accepted for publication in I&ECR.  This work includes a collaboration with researchers at the Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Also, this paper will be highlighted in a virtual special issue on the 2019 Class of Influential Researchers! Congratulations!

Varun’s paper studying the effects of exposure to chlorinated water on polypropylene, polyethylene, and polystyrene was accepted for publication in Water Research! Congratulations!

We will purchase a cryo-ultramicrotome with the funds received through the 2019 DURIP to expand the material preparation capabilities at ASU. This will extend access to the incredible microscopy facilities at ASU to soft materials, composites, and biological specimens. Congratulations to the other recipients: link

We will collaborate with Klaus Lackner (ASU), Rob Stirling (ASU), and Benny Freeman (UT-Austin) to develop new polymer materials that can be processed into large surface area membranes and capture carbon dioxide from the air! This 3-year project was funded by ARPA-E.

Undergraduate researcher Alexis Hocken has been selected to participate in the 2019 DAAD Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) program this summer. She will be off to Jena, Germany. Congratulations!!

We are working with researchers and clinicians at the AZ Mayo Clinic to better understand the assembly and dynamics of lipid-inhibitor complexes!

A proposal to study how electrostatic interactions can be tuned and manipulated to control morphology and rheological properties was funded by the DMR Polymers program.

ASU Engineering recently wrote an article for Full Circle to highlight our work as part of the NASA Early Career Faculty Award to make new and improved CO2 removal systems to enable deep space missions.

Our team contributed to a publication titled, “Anomalous Isoelectronic Chalcogen Rejection in 2D Anisotropic vdW TiS3(1-x)Se3x Trichalcogenides” which appeared online in Nanoscale today.

Our proposal titled, “Scalable Membrane-supported IL CO2 capture and removal systems” was funded by NASA! Additionally, this proposal was part of the Early Career Faculty program!