Naushita Sharma is the winner of the awardee of the 2021 Environmental Professionals of Arizona (EPAZ) Scholarship.  The selection committee noted that her application stood out among the applications we received from across the state, so well done. Her application noted a strong dedication to issues at the water-energy nexus, addressing disinfection by-products, and importance of…

PhD student Juliana Levi takes home 2nd place in the Nanopitch from the Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) annual competition. Her pitch focused on use of In/Pd nanoparticles attached to hydrogen permeable hollow fiber membranes as a technology to remove nitrate from drinking water. The technology is part of a multi-university collaboration sponsored by the National…

See article here. Daniel Jankoswski’s commitment to excellence was reflected in his teach and academic leadership. The Daniel Jankowski Legacy Award recognizes engineering faculty whose exemplary contributions in teaching, research and public service have had a long-standing, demonstrated impact on advancing the mission of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. The award was established…

Prof. Westerhoff presents for the Third Coast Water Seminar series on Chemical Free Water Treatment: Disinfection, softening and oxidation using light-enabled optical fibers. The presentation would not have been possible without Contributors: Zhe Zhao, Chao Zheng, Mariana Lopes, Shahnawaz Sinha. Many traditional water treatment processes require chemical addition, making them suitable and economically viable to…

Katie was part of a team that won $500,000 in the XPRIZE Next-Gen Mask Challenge to redesign the face masks used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by making them more comfortable, functional and affordable. Her team was lead and organized by Luminosity Labs. Here is a great story about their team. Katie is an…

Westerhoff provided one of thirteen perspectives on the progress of nanotechnology through fundamental breakthroughs in water and environmental research at 20 years of NNI.   This keynote and other invited presentations covering the progress in other areas of nanotechnology are posted on the twenty-year interval conference series portal: www.nseresearch.org/2020/ These proceeding are disseminated to the usual participants…

Read articles by GlobeNewswire & Molear. Molear is a member of the NSF Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Center. Research continues to show nanobubbles eliminate harmful pathogens and remove hard-to-treat contaminants from water.

Westerhoff research group named in Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2020. See the full list . Each year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2020, fewer than 6,200, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers,…

Juliana Levi is a PhD student at ASU working with Profs. Westerhoff, Rittmann, and Garcia-Segura on nitrate removal from water using hydrogen catalysts on hollow-fiber membranes. She is an active member of the NSF Nanosystems ERC for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT).

The advanced technology company Galileo Group reported it has demonstrated the destruction of a live virus and bacteria in a lab setting using key ingredients of its patented smartphone LED system. Paul Westerhoff (pictured) and Morteza Abbaszadegan, Fulton Schools professors of civil, environmental and sustainable engineering, performed the testing on the bacteria and viruses in…