January 2012: We welcome Mr. Taye Zewdu from Spain and Mr. Sean Kim (CHBE, BS '13) into the group!

January 2012: Professor Wong joins the Editorial Board of the journal Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

January 2012: Zhun Zhao was awarded a research grant from the very competitive Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Program. Congrats!

December 2011: Sravani Gullapalli was chosen for a Best Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congratulations!

December 2011: Lori Pretzer was awarded an Edgar O'Rear Travel Grant from the Rice IBB to attend the 2012 Spring ACS meeting.

November 17, 2011: Gautam Kini successfully defended his Chemical Engineering PhD thesis on "Bilayer Approaches for Nanoparticle Phase Transfer." Wonderful!

November 2, 2011: Nikolaos Soultanidis successfully defended his Chemical Engineering PhD thesis on "Solvothermal Synthesis and Supported Catalysis of Polyanion-derived Metal Oxide Nanoparticles." Congratulations!

October 2011: Dr. Jerimie Forsythe (PhD, LSU) joins our group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!

October 2011: Ms. Hua Yang joins our group as a visiting scholar. Welcome!

October 6, 2011: Gautam Kini, Dr. Hitesh Bagaria, and Dr. Wong received the Best Applied Paper in 2010 Award from the South Texas Section of AIChE (AIChE-STS), for their JPCC paper on processing salt-water suspensions of surfactant-coated NPs and understanding how high-salinity water improves the chemical/colloidal stability of NPs.

September 29, 2011: Quang Nguyen successfully defended his Electrical and Computer Engineering MS thesis on "Water-phase Synthesis of Cationic Silica/polyamine Nanoparticles." Congratulations!

September 2011: We welcome Ms. Taryn Willett (CHBE, Century Scholar) into the group this Fall!

September 2011: Sumedh Warudkar and Prof. Wong are part of the Rice research team chosen by DOE to develop innovative new technologies that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide from power plants. (link)

August 5, 2011: A Houston Chronicle article about engineers and soft skills. Prof. Wong had some thoughts! (link)

July 2011: Dr. Hao Qian (Huaqiao University, China) joins our group as a senior visiting scholar. Welcome!

July 2011: Dr. Zac Schaefer (PhD, Penn State) joins our group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!

June 2011: Zhun Zhao and Varun Shenoy successfully passed their PhD thesis proposal defenses. Congrats!

June 2011: We welcome Ms. Jean Kang and Mr. Kaoru Shibuya (both NanoJapan Fellows) into the group this summer! (link)

May 2011: An article from the Group ("Nanotechnology: A Guide to Nano-objects") is part of the special issue of AIChE's Chemical Engineering Progress on nanotechnology. (link)

May 14, 2011: Professor Wong received the 2011 Graduate Student Association Faculty Teaching/Mentoring Award.(link)

May 2011: We welcome Mr. Brandon Hautt (CHBE) and Mr. Sean Gelwick into the group!

April 2011: The group's work on catalytic nanoparticles was highlighted in the "Mover and Shakers" column of The Catalyst Review (April 2011). (link)

April 2011: Zhun Zhao and Nikolaos Soultanidis were selected to participate in the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy, to be held at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) in June.

April 15, 2011: Lori Pretzer was recognized with a Best Poster Award for her presentation on "Regulation of the Hydrodechlorination Catalytic Activity of Pd-on-Au Nanoparticles through Au Particle Size" at the 2011 Spring Symposium of the Southwest Catalysis Society. Congratulations!

April 13, 2011: Yulun Fang successfully defended his Chemical Engineering PhD thesis on "Understanding Structure-Property Relationships for Palladium-Gold Nanoparticles as Colloidal Catalysts!"

April 8, 2011: Shyam Benegal Kadali successfully defended his Chemical Engineering PhD thesis on "Engineering the Structural Properties of Self-assembled Polymer/nanoparticle Capsules!"

April 2011: Sravani Gullapalli was selected as a SCS Fellow by the Shell Center for Sustainability (SCS). She is working with Professor Biswal and her graduate student and SCS Fellow, Kung-Po Chao, on hybrid solar cell self-assembly.(link)(SCS link)

March 2011:We welcome Dr. Matthew Blankschien into our group! He was named the 2011-2012 Peter and Ruth Nicholas Postdoctoral Fellow, co-advised by Profs. Wong and Gonzalez.(link)

February 2011: Professor Wong is working with World Gold Council on gold-alloy nanoparticle catalysts to clean up contaminated water.(link)

February 2011: Professor Wong received a 2011 Virginia and L.E. Simmons Family Foundation Collaborative Research Award with Dr. Youli Zu (The Methodist Hospital Research Institute).(link) (photo)

February 2011: Hitesh Bagaria's paper on "Shell Thickness Control of Nanoparticle/Polymer Assembled Microcapsules" is a top-20-most-downloaded Chemistry of Materials article in the previous month.(link)

February 2011: Our paper on "A nanocomplex that is both tumor cell-selective and cancer gene-specific for anaplastic large cell lymphoma" with Dr. Zu (Methodist Hospital) is in the Top 10 most accessed articles of Journal of Nanobiotechnology in the last 30 days.(link)

January 2011: We welcome Mr. Jason Grider (CHBE, junior) and into the group!

January 2011: Apoorv Bhargava received the McCardell Scholarship and Chevron Scholarship from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He was also selected by the Department to receive the Texas Society of Professional Engineers' Outstanding Engineering Student Recognition Award. Nicely done!