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Around Campus·Nov 25, 2025

Making plastic more recyclable

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Graduate student Sam Marsden is working on creating a new form of polymer that will be as strong as polyethylene, but as recyclable as PET.
Around Campus·Nov 13, 2025

A mission to improve Earth’s “village” with molecular engineering

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Master of Engineering student Yousuf Mitchell aims to turn research breakthroughs into sustainable solutions.
Around Campus·Nov 11, 2025

Innovation turns building vents into carbon-capture devices

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With a newly developed nanofiber filter, air conditioners, heaters and other ventilation systems could remove airborne carbon dioxide while cutting energy costs.
Around Campus·Oct 22, 2025

Creating better batteries for the renewable energy transition

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PME PhD student Avi Gargye is working to create sustainable batteries to help improve quality of life around the world
Around Campus·Sep 26, 2025

Tiny sensors rapidly detect “forever chemicals” in water

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The new portable test has the potential to distinguish different PFAS chemicals, including those on which the US Environmental Protection Agency recently put new limits
Around Campus·May 21, 2025

Computational tool predicts materials for new energy economy

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New metal-organic framework has potential to catalyze the energy transition
Around Campus·Mar 20, 2025

A new way of storing hydrogen as an energy resource

An 800-year-old Italian poem inspired Franciscan friar Jimmy Kernan to study computational modeling materials at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.
Around Campus·Mar 13, 2025

PhD student receives Inflection Award for climate research

Nicholas Boynton, a graduate student at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, has received an inaugural Inflection Award, which celebrates the achievements of PhD students working on solutions to climate change.