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Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Tran Nguyen in lab setting.

Apr 7, 2022

Tran Nguyen, winner of the February Design Challenge series

The Design Challenge Series is a team based event where participants will take on exciting design prompts to design and develop creative solutions. New challenges are released every month for students to complete. 

Image of emissions from smokestacks.

Apr 1, 2022

New polymer membrane tech improves efficiency of CO2 capture

New tech is more efficient at removing carbon dioxide from mixed gases, such as power plant emissions. 

Silver Holladay medal with red ribbon on black background.

Mar 22, 2022

Three College of Engineering faculty members among Holladay Medal winners

Three College of Engineering faculty members are among those who received the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by NC State and the university’s Board of Trustees. 

decorative art

Mar 16, 2022

‘Self-Driving’ lab speeds up research, synthesis of energy materials

The technology can be used to advance both fundamental nanoscience and applied engineering. 

a heavy weight is being lifted off a table using a slender piece of elastic material. An insight image shows a close-up of the material, which is made of a transparent substance that looks like plastic.

Feb 22, 2022

New material offers remarkable combo of toughness and stretchiness

The new materials are also easy to make, easy to process, and you can 3D print them. 

Side view of white electric car recharging.

Feb 18, 2022

Department of Energy grants will power clean energy research at NC State

Faculty members in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University will receive funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to create a new electric microgrid coordination and control design and to develop cleaner, cheaper processes for industrial production of benzenes. 

NC State belltower in red light with timelapse traffic headlights in foreground.

Feb 17, 2022

Fanxing Li is an Energy and Fuels Rising Star

The editors and members of the editorial advisory board of the Energy & Fuels journal have selected Professor Fanxing Li as one of the 29 members of its inaugural class of Energy and Fuels Rising Stars. “At the time of nomination, rising star candidates should be in their independent research careers, 12 years or less after the award of Ph.D. degrees, and have made significant impacts to respective areas of energy research.” 

Bacteriophages at different levels of magnification (attached to bacterial cell wall/in petri dish).

Feb 15, 2022

New technique improves directed evolution of microorganisms

The technique can be used to better engineer microorganisms for biopharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing. 

Lilian Hsiao, an Asian American woman, stands in front of a window

Feb 15, 2022

Chemical engineer Lilian Hsiao named Sloan Research Fellow

Hsiao’s work focuses on advancing our fundamental understanding of microscopic forces in liquids and soft matter.