2023 ECS Society Officers Election Results
Botte is President and D’Souza is 3rd Vice President
Thank you to all who voted in the Society’s 2023 Officers Election. We are happy to announce the new officers.
News
What if liquid crystals could clean up oil spills?
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Xiao Li discusses her research on how liquid crystal design could be used to more effectively clean up oil spills, limiting damage to the environment.
2023 Electrochemical Society’s Nanocarbons Division Robert C. Haddon Research Award
Congratulations Professor Francis D'Souza for being selected as the winner of the 2023 Electrochemical Society’s Nanocarbons Division Robert C. Haddon Research Award. This honor is in recognition of Dr. D’Souza’s work in advancing the knowledge of nanocarbon materials built on supramolecular principles for the fundamental understanding of the process of light-induced charge-separation to building light energy harvesting devices from fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, and graphene. Formal recognition of this honor will take place during the 243rd Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in May 2023.
Biomedical Engineering Professor honored with NSF CAREER Award
UNT College of Engineering professor Melanie Ecker, Ph.D. has been granted an award of $553,036 through the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER).
Dr. Wonbong Choi elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventor (NAI) Fellow
The National Academy of Inventors is a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutes, with over 4,000 individual inventor members and Fellows spanning more than 250 institutions worldwide.
SMART PLASTICS
Dr. Melanie Ecker, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is the latest researcher featured in UNT's YouTube series , The Lab. She discusses her work with shape-memory polymers and how they might be used to seal organs after surgery. You also can learn more about her research in her 2021 TEDxUNT talk.
Dr. Francis D’Souza Receives 2022 UNT Research Leadership Award
Chemistry professor Dr. Francis D'Souza has been named the recipient of the 2022 UNT Research Leadership Award by the UNT Division of Research & Innovation. The award will be presented to Dr. D'Souza at the Salute to Faculty Excellence awards dinner and celebration on April 21, 2022.
According to the website, this award is given to "a full-time University faculty member whose research excellence and leadership at UNT has made substantial contribution to their respective discipline and achieved national and/or international recognition."
Next generation nuclear power
Next-generation nuclear power plants have the potential to address future energy needs and the global climate crisis. Designed to be more efficient and safer than traditional nuclear reactors, these new reactors will operate at higher temperatures and use alternate cooling methods. Proposed designs using molten salt instead of water to cool the reactor show some of the most promise.
New equipment could reshape the future of high entropy alloys
A new $250,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) will allow UNT materials scientists to delve deeper into the world of High Entropy Alloys (HEAs).
Rajarshi Banerjee, a University Regents Professor and Presidential Professor, and Rajiv Mishra, a University Distinguished Research Professor, believe a custom-built casting system will give them the ability to screen a large number of compositions of HEAs in a more efficient and cost-effective manner.
AMMPI's Submerged Bobbin Tool (SBT) Tunneling Technology Presented at AeroMat 2022
A presentation featuring AMMPI's new Submerged Bobbin Tool (SBT) tunneling technology was presented at AeroMat 2022 on March 15, 2022. The pre-recorded presentation is available for viewing on the UNT Engineering youtube.com channel linked below.