How To Win The Nobel Prize....now in YouTube

A video of David's recent seminar at Georgia Tech titled "How To Win The Nobel Prize and Change The World" is now available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csRGjRukZpE

Welcome to Martin Maldovan

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Martin Maldovan to our group as a Research Engineer. Martin has worked for a number of years at MIT using innovative modeling methods to study photonic materials and heat transfer in structured materials. You can read about some of Martin's work in this article from The Economist from earlier this year:
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21570672-it-may-soon-be-possible-control-heat-flows-great-precision-good-conduct

Congratulations Hakan and Ben

Congratulations to Hakan and Ben, who have both successfully passed their PhD proposals. This is an important step along their path to successfully completing their PhD. 

Welcome to Jack (and welcome back Liwei, Dieh and Ambarish)

We are pleased to welcome Jack Evans, a PhD student from Adelaide University, who is visiting us. Jack uses modeling and experiments to study crystalline nanoporous materials. Jack's arrival maintains a constant level of Australians in the group, since Simon Smart returned to the University of Queensland last week.

We are also glad to have several people back in Atlanta after summer industrial internships: Dieh at KBR in Houston, TX, Liwei at Dow in Freeport, TX, and Ambarish at ExxonMobil in Clinton, NJ. 

ChBE runners race recap

Details of the ChBE Runners adventures running from Atlanta to Birmingham, AL can be found here: http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/hg/item/203801

Welcome to our newest (and youngest) group member

Congratulations to Veronika on the safe arrival of her baby son, Joseph Alexander Wojewnik. And Happy Birthday Joseph! No news yet on whether Joseph is leaning towards excellence in scientific research like his mother or being a medical doctor like his father.

Congratulations Emmanuel

Emmanuel successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday. Congratulations Dr. Haldoupis!

Symposium award to Ambarish

Congratulations to Ambarish, who was awarded second prize for his oral presentation at the recently concluded ChBE Graduate Symposium.

Also congratulations to Daniel, who was co-chair of this very successful event. 

Two new papers in JPCC

Two new papers from our group have appeared in print recently, in the same issue of JPCC. Congratulations to all who contributed to these papers:

Title: On the Relationship between Mo K-Edge Energies and DFT Computed Partial Charges

Author(s): Li, Liwei; Morrill, Michael R.; Shou, Heng; et al.

Source: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C  Volume: 117   Issue: 6   Pages: 2769-2773   DOI: 10.1021/jp309078a   Published: FEB 14 201

Title: Adsorption and Diffusion of Small Alcohols in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks ZIF-8 and ZIF-90

Author(s): Gee, Jason A.; Chung, Jaeyub; Nair, Sankar; et al.

Source: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C  Volume: 117   Issue: 6   Pages: 3169-3176   DOI: 10.1021/jp312489w   Published: FEB 14 2013

Congratulations Dr. Kang

Congratulations to Sung Gu, who successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday. Well done Dr. Kang!

ChBE Runners

Congratulations to the ChBE Runners (Team name: Runaway Reactions), who completed the 200+ mile Dixie200 from Atlanta to Birmingham last weekend. Not only did we complete the course, we won the race!  A photo of our team at the finish line is below.

Group photo

Here are two photos of our group taken after a recent group meeting. For a challenge, see if you can identify who is missing in the comments.....

Welcome to Simon Smart

We are happy to welcome Dr. Simon Smart (and his family) to Atlanta. Simon is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Queensland in Australia, and he is in Atlanta for a 6 month sabbatical.

Simon will be giving the CHBE seminar on Wednesday afternoon at 4pm: http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/hg/item/196471

New papers in J. Phys. Chem. C and Energy Env. Sci.

Congratulations to Shiqiang Hao on the appearance in print of two papers describing work he did in Atlanta before moving to Chicago last year:

Title: First-Principles Models of Facilitating H-2 Transport through Metal Films Using Spillover

Author(s): Hao, Shiqiang; Sholl, David S.

Source: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C  Volume: 117   Issue: 3   Pages: 1217-1223   DOI: 10.1021/jp3090342   Published: JAN 24 2013

Title: Rapid prediction of hydrogen permeation through amorphous metal membranes: an efficient computational screening approach

Author(s): Hao, Shiqiang; Sholl, David S.

Source: ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE  Volume: 6   Issue: 1   Pages: 232-240   DOI: 10.1039/c2ee23180h   Published: JAN 2013