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Chemical Engineering, Biological Sciences Faculty Receive Largest NSF PFI Grant Ever Awarded to LSU

Nootkatone Studies Could Lead to Prevention of Lyme Disease March 25, 2024 BATON ROUGE, LA – Thanks to a $550,000 National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation grant—the largest NSF PFI grant ever awarded to LSU—LSU Chemical Engineering (ChE) Professor Kerry Dooley, LSU ChE Department Chair and Professor Mike Benton, and LSU Department of Biological Sciences (Biol. Sci.) Professor Roger Laine will continue their work on a project that could bring affordable and effective insect repellent to the masses, possibly decreasing the number of Lyme disease, malaria, and West Nile virus cases around the world.

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Flake to Speak at Decarbonization Forum

BATON ROUGE, LA – LSU Chemical Engineering Professor John Flake will be part of a panel discussion on “Harnessing the Opportunity of the ‘All of the Above’ Energy Strategy to Maximize Investment and Exporting Opportunities” at the Gulf Coast Industrial Decarbonization Forum on Tuesday, May 14, at 11 a.m. at L’Auberge Casino in Baton Rouge.

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LSU Chemical Engineering Faculty Receive Patent for Oil Spill Management Technology

January 31, 2024 BATON ROUGE, LA – LSU Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Bhuvnesh Bharti and his former graduate student Jin Gyun Lee have been issued a patent for their technology which utilizes lignin nanoparticles to provide an eco-friendly method for oil spill cleanup. It’s the first patent awarded to an LSU College of Engineering faculty this year.

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LSU Engineering Researchers Seek Advancements in Underwater Construction

November 15, 2023 BATON ROUGE, LA – In 2022, the average global sea level reached a record high at 101.2 millimeters—four inches above 1993 levels. That same year, the National Weather Service recorded an all-time high of 13 “significant weather events.” Both of these statistics signal a greater challenge when it comes to the resiliency of coastal communities and their infrastructure, but it’s one a pair of LSU Engineering researchers are taking on through a nearly $500,000 National Science Foundation Future Manufacturing Award.

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Gao Receives LAMDA Research Award

October 16, 2023 BATON ROUGE, LA – Tong Gao, a postdoctoral associate in the LSU Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, recently received a Louisiana Materials Design Alliance, or LAMDA, Seed Track 1C Postdoctoral Research Award.

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LSU Chemical Engineering Researchers’ New Recycling Process Published in Angewandte Chemie

October 4, 2023 BATON ROUGE, LA – In a recently published paper in Angewandte Chemie, LSU Chemical Engineering Associate Professor Kunlun Ding and his research group detail a new concept for recycling plastic waste.

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LSU, Tulane Researchers Synthesize Ultrasmall Nanoshells for Improved Biomedical Imaging

September 21, 2023 BATON ROUGE, LA – Researchers from LSU’s Cain Department of Chemical Engineering and Tulane University’s Biomedical Engineering Department synthesized sub-100 nm gold nanoshells, i.e., particles with silica cores covered by a thin gold shell, and used them to improve the penetration depth of photoacoustic imaging. Gold nanoshells are promising candidates for biomedical imaging and cancer therapy, but synthetic challenges have limited their diameters to greater than 100 nm for more than 20 years. LSU chemical engineers synthesized 62 nm nanoshells and collaborated with Tulane biomedical engineers to demonstrate a 50% improvement in the photoacoustic imaging depth compared to current state-of-the-art nanoshells.

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