Nesibe and Ercan's paper on "Direct access to primary amines and particle morphology control in nanoporous CO2 sorbents" got selected for the back cover of ChemSusChem! Congratulations!
Jason's paper is selected for the cover of I&EC
Jeehye won Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship
Cafer was appointed an Editorial Board Member at Chem, a new Chemistry journal by Cell Press
One lab wins two more Qatar NPRP funding
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Through the 5th cycle of National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), ONE Lab won two awards:The NPRP is an annual program, with grants of up to US$350,000, per year, for projects that span from one to three years. It funds original, competitively selected research and, as the largest funding activity of QNRF, has already invested over US$345M in 411 projects to date involving 134 collaborative institutions from around the world. The fund is open to both Qatari and non-Qatari citizens, located inside or outside Qatar and accepts proposals from all disciplines.
ONE Lab member, Ms. Jeehye Byun wins idea contest
Ms. Jeehye Byun, along with her team members, Ms. Dahee Park and Mr. Sang-Hyun Lee, wins the student idea festival - idea contest by the EEWS initiative. Their proposal was about water treatment with portable CDI(Capacitive Deionization) bottle by using cylindrical electrode(flexible graphene sheet). We congratulate her and her teammates.
Awarded grant from KAIST EEWS Initiative
Awarded a second grant from QNRF
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| Methane clathrate (Image source) |
Elected to the advisory board of I-SWEEEP
I was elected to the advisory board of The International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering & Environment) Project Olympiad (I-SWEEEP) by the olympiad committee. The I-SWEEEP 2010 will be held between April 14 and April 19, 2010.
My first grant as a PI
Early Sunday, about 3 am in the morning, I got a phone call from my dear friend Prof. Mert Atilhan that the grant we applied for was awarded. This marks my first (substantial) grant as a principal investigator (PI). It's for $1,035,382 to be exact and the duration is 3 years. Thanks Qatar Foundation!
The abstract is as follows (also available here):
Esquire Magazine selected our work in "Six Ideas That Will Change The World"
The Esquire magazine selected our rust and edible oil method for making magnetite nanocrystals as one of the "Six Ideas That Will Change The World". Listed as the 3rd, it was dubbed "The Pollution Magnet". The article appeared in their "BEST & BRIGHTEST 2007" section.The others ideas are:
Our work listed in Top Five Nanotech Breakthroughs of 2006 by Forbes
In a Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report (on 12.27.06, 8:30 AM ET), Josh Wolfe listed our work as one of the "Top Five Nanotech Breakthroughs Of 2006" under the title "Nanomagnets to clean up drinking water". Click here to view the article.
Rewarded by Vice Provost
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| Me, Prof. Jordan Konisky (Vice Provost), Prof. Vinod Kumar |
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