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Tech Watching for Possible Federal Government Partial Shutdown

Posted: December 17, 2018

As students, faculty, and staff leave campus for the holidays and semester break, Georgia Tech officials will be keeping a watchful eye on Washington, D.C.

Distribution and Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Phthalic Acid Esters in Water and Surface Sediment from the Three Gorges Reservoir

Posted: December 17, 2018

Li Lin, Lei Dong, Xiaoyang Meng, Qingyun Li, Zhuo Huang, Chao Li, Rui Li, Wenjun Yang, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Journal of Environmental Sciences, 69, 271-280, DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2017.11.004.

Cu2O Nanocrystals/TiO2 Microspheres Film on a Rotating Disk Containing Long-Afterglow Phosphor for Enhanced Round-the-Clock Photocatalysis

Posted: December 17, 2018

Ying Lu, Xu Zhang, Yicong Chu, Hongbin Yu, Mingxin Huo, Jiao Qu, John C.Crittenden, Hongliang Huo, Xing Yuan, 2018, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 224, 239-248, DOI: 10.1016/j.apcatb.2017.10.054.

Electrochemical Oxidation of Microcystis aeruginosa Using a Ti/RuO2 Anode: Contributions of Electrochemically Generated Chlorines and Hydrogen Peroxide

Posted: December 17, 2018

Li Lin, Xiaoyang Meng, Qingyun Li, Zhuo Huang, Linling Wang, Ke Lin, Jin Chen, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 25 (28), 27924–27934, DOI: 10.1007/s11356-018-2830-4.

Impact of Chloride Ions on UV/H2O2 and UV/Persulfate Advanced Oxidation Processes

Posted: December 12, 2018

Weiqiu Zhang, Shiqing Zhou, Julong Sun, Xiaoyang Meng, Jinming Luo, Dandan Zhou, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Environmental Science and Technology, 52 (13), 7380–7389, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b01662.

Statistical Optimization and Batch Studies on Adsorption of Phosphate Using Al-Eggshell

Posted: December 12, 2018

Yan Zhang, Hui Li, Yuyan Zhang, Fengjuan Song, Xiaoqiang Cao, Xianjun Lyu, Yan Zhang, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Adsorption Science and Technology, 36 (3-4), 999-1017, DOI: 10.1177/0263617417740790.

Closed-Loop Electrochemical Recycling of Spent Copper(II) from Etchant Wastewater Using a Carbon Nanotube Modified Graphite Felt Anode

Posted: December 12, 2018

Yan Chang, Lin Deng, Xiaoyang Meng, Wen Zhang, Chunzhen Wang, Yuxin Wang, Song Zhao, Li Lin, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Environmental Science and Technology, 52 (10), pp 5940–5948, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b06298.

Remediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Soil and Simultaneous Recovery of Oil by Fast Pyrolysis

Posted: December 12, 2018

De-Chang Li, Wan-Fei Xu, Yang Mu, Han-Qing Yu, Hong Jiang, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Environmental Science and Technology, 52 (9), 5330-5338, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b03899.

Weak-Bond-Based Photoreduction of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers on Graphene in Water

Posted: December 12, 2018

Guodong Sheng, Yingying Shao, Weidong Ye, Chunyan Sun, Chuncheng Chen, John C. Crittenden, Chunlin Liu, 2018, ACS Sustainable Chemical Engineering, 6 (5), 6711–6717, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00494.

Efficient Heavy Metal Removal from Industrial Melting Effluent Using Fixed-bed Process Based on Porous Hydrogel Adsorbents

Posted: December 12, 2018

Guiyin Zhou, Jinming Luo, Chengbin Liu, Lin Chu, John C. Crittenden, 2018, Water Research, 131, 246-254, DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.12.067.

Armored With Plastic ‘Hair’ and Silica Shell, New Perovskite Nanocrystals Show Enhanced Durability

Posted: November 29, 2019

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a novel approach aimed at addressing the material’s durability problem: encasing the perovskite inside a double layer protection system made from plastic and silica.

Bioengineering and Bioscience

El Nino Swings More Violently in the Industrial Age, Hard Evidence Says

Posted: November 25, 2019

Hard evidence now says: El Nino and the climate phenomenon that drives it have become more extreme in the industrial age.

Bioengineering and Bioscience

Exoplanet Axis Study Boosts Hopes of Complex Life, Just Not Next Door

Posted: November 20, 2019

An exoplanet study on axis tilts raises hopes that advanced life may exist elsewhere in the universe.

Data Engineering and Science

Observing a “Cosmic Symphony” Using Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Posted: November 19, 2019

Research from a team of astrophysicists presents a compelling roadmap for capturing four- to 10-year snapshots of intermediate-mass black hole activity.

Metagenomics Unlocks Unknowns of Diarrheal Disease Cases in Children

Posted: November 18, 2019

Researchers have found that conventional culture-based lab tests may misdiagnose as many as half of the microbial causes of diarrheal diseases in children.

Materials

Informatics Accelerates Design of Hybrid Membrane Materials for Chemical Separations

Posted: November 8, 2019

A $1.7 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology develop much cheaper ways to separate chemicals using membranes that could potentially replace energy-intensive distillation processes.

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