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…

Katie Pascavis did research with ASU Luminosity Labs to help disinfect facial masks, school supplies and other equipment. They use ozone and/or hydrogen peroxide. See their solutions highlighted here. This builds upon other work in our group to use UV light to disinfect masks and study effect of different masks to remove covid-sized aerosol particles.

NSF renews investment in National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Lead by Prof. Westerhoff, LCnano is part of the Nanotechnology Collaborative Infrastructure Southwest (center link here) at Arizona State University within the NCI’s 16 sites. The NCI sites provide researchers from academia, large and small businesses, and government with access to leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation,…

Usually live at the AWWA Annual Conference. As recipient of the 2020 A.P. Black Award, this year a virtual webinar was scheduled. The topic was WWA’s Research Webinar on Bridging the Divide Between Bulk-to-trace Organics with a focus on “Is Nitrogen the New Carbon”. Here is a link to the recording of the webinar (available through…

Mariana Lopes pitched our technology to prevent pathogen and biofilm growth in home water systems, including point of use devices. During the Venture Devils Demo Day competition the start-up company received $10,000 to continue building the technology into a company (see timestamp 57:20 during the award ceremony).

Our group continues to collaborate and advance knowledge of how germicidal UV light (250 to 280 nm) can be used to disinfect N95 face masks and other surfaces. (Featured photo shows graduate student researcher Zhaobo Zhang tests the effectiveness of masks after sterilization) Here are two recent news reports on our collaborations, which are partially…

EPAZ awards their 2020 scholarship of $2000 to PhD student Juliana Levi (Chemical Engineer) from the Westerhoff group. The scholarships come with cash awards aimed to recognize their excellence in research. Juliana Levi is part of the NSF Nanosystems ERC for nanotechnology enabled water treatment (NEWT).

Paul Westerhoff was selected to receive the A.P. Black Award and his photo appears on the cover of the Journal American Water Works Association June 2020 Issue. Normally the recipient delivers a presentation at the June annual AWWA conference, but due to covid-19 this year he will give a webinar in August 2020. A.P. and…

PhD student Naushita Sharma received $10,000. The Holly A. Cornell Scholarship created in 1990 and sponsored by Jacobs/CH2M honors co-founder Holly A. Cornell to encourage and support outstanding female and/or minority students pursuing advanced training in the field of water supply and treatment.