Department News
Droning On
UD’s Bingjun Xu awarded AFOSR Young Investigator grant The University of Delaware’s Bingjun Xu is one of 58 scientists and engineers across the U.S. to receive a three-year research grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator...
Incubator Opens
DTP@STAR welcomes 12 start-ups to new space at STAR Campus Norm Wagner takes the bus. Three stops and just a few minutes later, in less time than it takes to walk from his office to his parking lot, the chemical and biomolecular engineering professor arrives at his...
New Brew in Quest for Biofuel
Mixotrophy twist leads researchers to higher yields, lower emissions You don't have to be a beer lover to understand the chemistry behind new research emerging from two labs at the University of Delaware and their collaborators at White Dog Labs in New Castle,...
Little Hybrids
NSF grant supports research on assembly of complex hybrid nanomaterials An old saying suggests that great things come in small packages, but when “small” means nanoscale, putting those packages together can be a challenge—particularly when they involve diverse...
Renewable Energy Leader
Vlachos appointed Ferguson Professor and UD Energy Institute director Dionisios G. Vlachos has been named the inaugural Allan and Myra Ferguson Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. He also has been appointed director of the...
Better Fuel Cell Membranes
UD awarded $1.8 million through new ARPA-E program aimed at transforming energy storage, conversion The University of Delaware has been awarded $1.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) through its...
Sept. 1: ACS Webinar
Wagner to present on use of shear thickening fluids in protective equipment Norman Wagner, Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chaired Professor in the University of Delaware’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will deliver an American Chemical Society...
Fuling the Quest for Green Energy
Read article here: https://research.udel.edu/2016/08/18/energy/
Chemical Engineering Honors
Papoutsakis receives Murphree Award from American Chemical Society Eleftherios (Terry) Papoutsakis, Unidel Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering...
Supporting Research Partnerships
6 new projects funded through Delaware Bioscience CAT program The Delaware Bioscience Center for Advanced Technology (Bioscience CAT) has awarded a new group of grants. The Bioscience CAT grants synergize efforts between the academic and industrial bioscience research...
Polymer ‘Pens’
Epps, DuPont receive NSF funding to develop new approach to manufacture nanostructured arrays Miniaturization of electronic devices has been ongoing since well before the first room-sized computer was built more than half a century ago. A hand-held smart phone now...
Exemplary Achievements
Students honored for dissertations, prof for exceptional mentoring As the University of Delaware recognized more than 160 students who completed their doctoral studies at the Doctoral Hooding Convocation held May 27 on The Green, top prizes went to six students and...