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Congratulations to Gent Ferati for receiving the DeVlieg Undergraduate Research Foundation Award for the 2018-19 academic year.

Our paper entitled “Towards Rechargeable Hydrogen Battery for Renewable Energy Storage” was published in Green Chemistry. A highly efficient formate-piperidine-adduct (FPA) based hydrogen storage system was developed, which has shown superior reaction kinetics of both hydrogenation and dehydrogenation under mild operating conditions. Moreover, high-purity hydrogen, which is free of carbon monoxide and ammonia, was generated. […]

Our review paper entitled “Applications of Cellulose Nanocrystals: A Review” was published in Engineered Science. Cellulose Nanocrystals (CNCs) display a high surface area that can be readily functionalized, which enables their applications as excellent matrix and advanced materials.  Herein, the widespread CNCs applications in paper, polymer, food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries were summarized.Article Link: http://www.espublisher.com/doi/10.30919/es.1803302

Our article entitled “Production of High-Density Renewable Aviation Fuel from Arid Land Crop” was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Article Link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b01433

Our paper in ChemSusChem, “Coupling Glucose Dehydrogenation with CO2 Hydrogenation by Hydrogen Transfer in Aqueous Media at Room Temperature” is featured as front cover. Article Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cssc.201801416

Congratulations to Trong for receiving the Auvil Scholars Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Prof. Lin’s group received an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) supplement from NSF to support the project, entitled “EAGER: Towards Sustainable Carbon-Negative Chemical Manufacturing by Creating Synergy between Carbon Dioxide Utilization and Biorefinery.” The undergraduate student performing research on this grant is Kristian Gubsch.

Our paper entitled “Coupling Glucose Dehydrogenation with CO2 Hydrogenation by Hydrogen Transfer in Aqueous Media at Room Temperature” was accepted to ChemSusChem. A novel catalytic reaction system is presented by coupling the dehydrogenation of glucose with the hydrogenation of a CO2 derived salt in the ethanol-water mixture at room temperature. Based on the 13C NMR […]

Congratulations to Ousman for receiving LSAMP Research Stipend for the academic year 2018-2019.

Our paper entitled “Catalytic transfer hydrogenation of furfural for the production of ethyl levulinate: Interplay of Lewis and Brønsted acidities” was accepted to Energy Technology. Kan Tang is the first author. Congratulations! Article Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ente.201700973