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Precision sensors: an innovative future for agriculture

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Nov 13, 2024

Creating a brand-new class of materials

NC State researchers have created a new class of materials called “glassy gels” that possess properties that could make them an alternative to certain plastics commonly used in today’s products. 
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Oct 25, 2024

Creating cutting-edge Ag Tech

Nearly 50 NC State University undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars spent a fall weekend competing in the N.C. Plant Sciences Initiative’s fourth annual Hackathon, taking on real-world agricultural technology… 
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Oct 24, 2024

Park selected to receive DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award

Fourth year Ph.D. student, Zachary Park, has been selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award for his proposed research project, “Investigating the Interfacial Chemistry of Liquid Metals in Batteries,” to be conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. 
Researchers with poplar trees in a greenhouse.

Oct 21, 2024

Finding could help turn trees into affordable, greener industrial chemicals

Specific molecular property of lignin in trees determines difficulty of using microbial fermentation to turn trees and other plants into industrial chemicals. 
A render of the proposed NC State Integrative Sciences Building, situated on the Brickyard.

Oct 16, 2024

CBE’s Abolhasani named Integrative Sciences Initiative’s director of accelerated technologies

Two new directors of NC State’s Integrative Sciences Initiative (ISI) and the first occupants of Woodson Hall, the heart of the ISI, have been announced. Milad Abolhasani and Melanie Simpson were named director of accelerated technologies and director of research, respectively, effective October 1. 
Plastic bottles in water.

Oct 8, 2024

Podcast: Microplastics

Nathan Crook, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is working on a unique process for getting rid of microplastics: bacteria engineered to degrade polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, plastic. 
Large, green metal letters spell RALEIGH at the Raleigh Convention Center.

Sep 25, 2024

Soft matter conference hosted for first time in Americas at Raleigh Convention Center

Though held every year since 2016, 2024 marks the first time the International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC2024) has taken place in the Americas. 
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Sep 17, 2024

NC State receives NSF grant to establish the Center for Accelerated Photocatalysis

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that North Carolina State University will direct a center that deploys self-driving labs (SDLs) to accelerate discovery for reactions which use light as a catalyst in challenging chemical transformations. The NSF Center for Accelerated Photocatalysis (CAPs) is supported by an NSF Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program Phase I… 
A graphic & data visualization of green and red tomatoes cut in half.

Sep 12, 2024

Precision sensors: an innovative future for agriculture

In the summer of 2022, growers in North Carolina were alarmed to find a new variant of the Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV). Transmitted by insects called thrips and resistant to existing treatments, TSWV is difficult to eliminate and can ruin an entire crop. With one of the widest ranges among plant diseases, it also…