Chemical Engineering News
Stanford engineers invent process to accelerate protein evolution
Monday, December 7, 2015
A new tool enables researchers to test millions of mutated proteins in a matter of hours or days, speeding the search for new medicines, industrial enzymes and biosensors.
Stanford engineers among recipients of Precourt Institute and TomKat Center $2.1 million grants
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Grants will fund groundbreaking energy research
Atom-sized craters make a catalyst much more active
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
SLAC, Stanford Engineering discovery could speed important chemical reactions, such as making hydrogen fuel
Stanford engineers create artificial skin that can send pressure sensation to brain cell
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Stanford engineers have created a plastic skin-like material that can detect pressure and deliver a Morse code-like signal directly to a living brain cell. The work takes a big step toward adding a sense of touch to prosthetic limbs.
Stanford team re-engineers virus to deliver therapies to cells
Monday, September 21, 2015
Researchers stripped a virus of its infectious machinery and turned its benign core into a delivery vehicle that can target sick cells while leaving healthy tissue alone.
Stanford engineers produce cancer drug from rare plant in lab to benefit human health
Friday, September 11, 2015
Stanford scientists produced a common cancer drug – previously only available from an endangered plant – in a common laboratory plant. This work could lead to a more stable supply of the drug and allow scientists to manipulate that drug to make it even safer and more effective.
Microscopic Rake Doubles Efficiency of Low-cost Solar Cells
Monday, August 17, 2015
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford engineers have developed a manufacturing technique that could help make polymer solar cells an economically attractive alternative to those made with much more expensive silicon-crystal wafers.
Stanford Engineering students and researchers win grants to commercialize energy inventions
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Building on the success of its first year, the Innovation Transfer Program at the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy is financially supporting 11 new teams composed mostly of Stanford students and recent graduates trying to put university research to work.
New 'designer carbon' from Stanford engineers boosts battery performance
Friday, May 29, 2015
Stanford researchers have created a new carbon material that significantly improves the performance of batteries and supercapacitors.
Stanford engineers discover how microbes acquire electricity in making methane
Monday, May 18, 2015
New findings by Professor Alfred Spormann and colleagues could pave the way for microbial "factories" that produce renewable biofuels and chemicals.
Stacey Bent is named chair of Chemical Engineering
Friday, April 24, 2015
Her research focuses on understanding and controlling surface and interfacial chemistry and applying this knowledge in a wide range of fields from semiconductors to sustainability.
Engineering a rowing team
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Engineering is a popular and useful major for members of Stanford's rowing team.
Jens Nørskov elected to NAE
Monday, February 9, 2015
Chemical engineering professor honored for his contributions to theoretical approaches to design of heterogeneous catalysts, linking reaction rates to microscopic catalyst properties.
Stanford senior awarded 2015-16 Churchill Scholarship
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Sophie E. Miller, a chemical engineering major at Stanford, is one of 14 Americans "of exceptional ability and outstanding achievement" who have been awarded Churchill Scholarships to study at the University of Cambridge in England for one year.
Stanford faculty awarded seed grants for innovative energy research
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Stanford's Precourt Institute, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and TomKat Center have awarded eight seed grants to Stanford faculty for early-stage energy research.
Three influential innovators named Stanford Engineering Heroes
Monday, November 10, 2014
Distinguished Stanford engineers honored for their impact on our lives and the world.
Stanford chemical engineers borrow technique from petrochemical industry to store solar energy
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Many high school students have zapped water with electricity to make hydrogen and oxygen. To turn that chemical process into a type of battery, researchers adapt ideas from oil refineries.
Stanford team invents sensor that uses radio waves to detect subtle changes in pressure
Friday, October 10, 2014
Device is used to monitor brain pressure in lab mice as prelude to possible use with human patients; future applications of this pressure-sensing technology could lead to touch-sensitive “skin” for prosthetic devices.
Stanford's GCEP awards $10.5 million for research on renewable energy
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Stanford scientists and an international research group receive funding to advance solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy.
Stanford team developing gel-like padding that could help cells survive injection and heal spinal cord injuries
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
A team of engineers and scientists is developing a gel to help protect cells from the trauma of being injected into an injury site. The work could help speed cell-based therapies for spinal cord injuries and other types of damage.
Bioengineering and chemical engineering building at Stanford named for gifts from Ram and Vijay Shriram
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
$61 million in support from university trustee and his wife names the Shriram Center for Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering and endows the departmental chair.
Stanford ChEM-H: Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Given a year to mature, the Institute for Chemical Biology is relaunching under a new name that better reflects its vision of bringing Stanford's unique interdisciplinary culture to bear at a new frontier of chemistry.
Stanford research reveals new ways to study and control crystallization
Friday, April 18, 2014
Stanford scientists help create a novel way to do time-lapse studies of crystallization that will lead to more flexible and effective electronic displays, circuits and pharmaceutical drugs.
Stanford engineers make flexible carbon nanotube circuits more reliable and efficient
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Researchers invent a process to 'dope' carbon filaments with an additive to improve their electronic performance, paving the way for digital devices that bend.
Newly discovered catalyst could lead to the low-cost, clean production of methanol, scientists say
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Scientists from Stanford, SLAC and Denmark have created a new nickel-gallium catalyst that could some day be used to convert hydrogen and carbon dioxide emissions into methanol, an important industrial chemical and potential fuel.
