8/4/2022
Rohini gave an invited talk titled “Thermal Transport and Chemical Phenomena in Solar Reactors: Enabling Sun to Heat, Fuels and Nutrients” at the Department of Chemical Engineering in Continue Reading »
Rohini gives seminar at IISC
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TALKS@ASME HEAT TRANSFER/ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY 2022
7/18/2022
Our group had a strong presence at the 16th International ASME Energy Sustainability co-located with the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference. Bingjia, Bryan, Mike and Zijie all gave excellent oral presentations and it was also great fun to be back in an in-person conference since 2020. See the list of talks below:
- Bingjia Li,
CONGRATS, DR.SUNDAR
7/5/2022
Many congratulations to Aditya Sundar, who is co-advised by Liang (Materials Science & Engineering) and Rohini (Mechanical Engineering), for successfully defending his thesis presentation titled “Modeling the structural and chemical stability of materials in reactive environments using multiscale methods”.
Aditya has spearheaded a new field of work in TREE Lab focusing on assessing corrosion Continue Reading »
RACHEL ATTENDS NGENE 2022
6/6/2022
Rachel Silcox was one of 40 selected graduate students and postdocs to attend an intense week-long summer workshop that explores advanced topics in electrochemistry, NGenE 2022 at the University of Illinois, Chicago. This year the workshop focused on opportunities and challenges for decarbonization.
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FOND FAREWELL TO THEO
6/1/2022
A fond farewell to Theo Rulko, undergraduate student extraordinaire. Theo was instrumental in designing, prototyping and testing a gravity-driven hopper and channel flow chamber in our lab to test the effectiveness of Continue Reading »
INVITED & CONTRIBUTED TALKS AT ECS, VANCOUVER
5/31/2022
Our group had 3 talks including an invited talk by Luisa Barrera (yay!) at the 241st ECS Meeting at Vancouver. Luisa, was our sole in-person attendee for the conference.
- Modeling the Effects of Coatings, Light Absorption, and Mass Transfer on Solar-to-Hydrogen Efficiencies in Z-Scheme Photocatalytic Reactors
- (Invited Talk) Experimental Quantification of the Effects
PANELIST AT US-GERMAN SOLAR FUELS WORKSHOP
5/3/2022
Rohini was invited as a panelist on the topic of “From Particles to Panels” at the 11th US/German Solar Fuels Workshop along with Dr. Fatwa Abdi and Dr. Peter Agobo. Was great to be part of this engaging panel discussion, and thanks for the invite Prof. Daniel Esposito and Dr. Verena Streibal. Continue Reading »
PREPRINT ON RADIATIVE PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS
4/16/2022
Check out our latest preprint on temperature-dependent radiative property measurements for ceramic powders, with applications as heat-transfer and storage media in concentrated solar power plants.
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RACHEL AWARDED NSF FELLOWSHIP
4/4/2022
Rachel Silcox has secured the highly prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines, and provides three years of financial support including an annual stipend of $34,000 and a cost of education allowance of $12,000 to the institution
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NSF CAREER AWARD
2/6/2022
Super thrilled and really grateful to receive the NSF CAREER Award for understanding radiative transport in flowing and reactive participating media. Looking forward to exciting research and educational outcomes from this 5-year project. Huge shout out to support from my research team, financial and administrative staff at UM, especially Diane Brouwer (ME) and Kellie Buss Continue Reading »