Media Coverage

11/13/2024 – ‘Game changer’ in lithium extraction: Rice researchers develop novel electrochemical reactor

Rice University News – A team of Rice University researchers led by Sibani Lisa Biswal and Haotian Wang has developed an innovative electrochemical reactor to extract lithium from natural brine solutions, offering a promising approach to address the growing demand for lithium used in rechargeable batteries. This breakthrough, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, holds significant potential for renewable energy storage and electric vehicles.

08/12/2024 – Rice-built reactor yields green ammonia and purified water

Rice University News – New reactor system could decarbonize ammonia production, treat nitrate-contaminated water

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06/10/2024 – Chase Sellers has been selected as one of the 87 new TEX-E fellows this year

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04/17/2024 – Dr. Wang receives the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the school of engineering

Rice Engineering News – Faculty and Staff Engineering Awards celebrate faculty and staff research, teaching and service.

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11/09/2023 – PhD student Wei Ping Lam wins at international Shell.ai Hackathon

Rice ChBE News – Researcher in Haotian Wang’s group took Sustainable and Affordable Energy top prize using satellite data on rainfall and agricultural production.

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06/27/2023 – Electrochemical device captures carbon dioxide at the flick of a switch

Rice University News – Disruptive technology could lower carbon-capture costs across all emission types

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01/24/2022 – Over $1.2M Awarded to 8 Scialog: Negative Emissions Science Teams

Research Corporation News – Our team’s proposal was awarded by Research Corporation and Sloan Foundation during the NES Scialog Meeting

06/24/2021 – Quantum dots keep atoms spaced to boost catalysis

Rice University News – Rice engineers develop strategy for higher-loading single atom catalysts

02/16/2021 – Haotian Wang named Sloan Research Fellow

Rice University News – Chemical and biomolecular engineer among 128 early career innovators

01/17/2021 – Carbon monoxide reduced to valuable chemical

Rice University News – Rice engineers’ reactor converts gas directly into acetic acid

10/15/2020 – Haotian Wang wins Packard Fellowship

Rice University News – Five-year grant will support technology to turn greenhouse gases into fuel

09/02/2020 – NSF awards Wang $2-million Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation grant

Rice ChBE News – Young researcher to explore converting CO2 into pure liquid fuels.

05/07/2020 – Wang receives grant to study waste CO2 conversion

Rice ChBE News – Haotian Wang, assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has received a three-year, $240,000 research grant from the Houston-based Robert A. Welch Foundation to study ways to covert waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful products using nanotechnology.

12/06/2019 – 10 Rice Engineering faculty among world’s highly cited researchers

Rice News – Ten faculty members in the George R. Brown School of Engineering are ranked among the world’s highly cited researchers, including seven in the materials science category.

10/10/2019 – NEW CATALYST COULD BE KEY TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Canadian Light Source Featured Story – Scientists develop new, greener technique to produce hydrogen peroxide, used in mining, textiles, and cosmetics industries.

10/10/2019 – Water + air + electricity = hydrogen peroxide

Rice News – Rice breakthrough produces valuable chemical on demand at point of use

09/04/2019 – Meet the 2019-2021 cohort of CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars

CIFAR News – Fourteen inspiring early-career researchers named across five CIFAR research programs.

09/03/2019 – Rice reactor turns greenhouse gas into pure liquid fuel

Rice News – Lab’s ‘green’ invention reduces carbon dioxide into valuable fuels.

11/13/2018 – Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2019

Forbes – Haotian Wang’s goal is to help solve climate change and build useful products at the same time.

11/08/2018 – Turning tide on greenhouse gases

Harvard Gazette – New system opens the door to transforming CO2 into industrial fuels

03/01/2018 – Converting CO2 into Usable Energy

News @ NSLS II – Scientists show that single nickel atoms are an efficient, cost-effective catalyst for converting carbon dioxide into useful chemicals 

12/05/2017 – Catalyzing Carbon Dioxide

Science Daily – A system that uses renewable electricity to electrochemically transform carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide — a key commodity used in any number of industrial processes — has now been developed by scientists.

09/01/2017 – Two new ways to turn ‘garbage’ carbon dioxide into fuel

Science – Carbon dioxide (CO2) is society’s ultimate waste product, with billions of tons of the stuff injected into the air every year. But recycling it into valuable fuels and chemicals has always required too much energy to make financial sense. Now, researchers have found two efficient ways to convert CO2 into energy-rich byproducts.

11/24/2016 – For platinum catalysts, a tiny squeeze gives a big boost in performance, Stanford study finds

Stanford News – Squeezing a platinum catalyst a fraction of a nanometer nearly doubles its catalytic activity, a finding that could lead to better fuel cells and other clean energy technologies.

06/26/2015 – Has a simple way to make fuel from water been found? Device splits H2O to create hydrogen and oxygen 24 hours a day

Daily Mail – Existing water-splitting devices are costly because they use rare metals; Device by Stanford scientists uses cheaper nickel-iron oxide catalysts; It runs on an ordinary 1.5-volt battery and splits water with 82% efficiency

06/23/2015 – Single-catalyst water splitter from Stanford produces clean-burning hydrogen 24/7

Stanford Report – Stanford scientists have developed a cheap and efficient way to extract clean-burning hydrogen fuel from water 24 hours a day, seven days a week.