Kun Liu, Jiansong Chen, Haishun Du, and Prof. Pan attended the 2024 AIChE Meeting held from October 27 to 31 in San Diego, CA. Jiansong won the Graduate Student Award, Haishun won the Young Investigator Award, and Prof. Pan was elected as an AIChE fellow.
Prof. Pan was interviewed by WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio) about the research on lignin-based BPA published in Nature by Dr. Ning Li. https://www.wpr.org/news/uw-madison-research-bpa-alternative
Prof. Pan was elected as a fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). https://www.aiche.org/chenected/2024/07/meet-some-aiches-recently-elected-fellows
Dr. Sonali Mohapatra (Postdoc) was interviewed by an Indian media, B Talkz (Business Talkz). https://www.businesstalkz.com/2024/07/sonali-mohapatra-trailblazing.html
Dr. Ning Li (2018 Ph.D.) developed an innovative process to produce biobased bisphenols, the feedstock for polycarbonates, epoxy resins, and vinyl ester resins currently produced from petroleum, from lignin in wood with the co-production of high-grade pulp for cellulose products and hemicellulose-based chemicals. The research paper was published in Nature (2024, 630, 381–386). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07446-5. This story was highlighted and reported by WEI (Wisconsin Energy Institute, https://energy.wisc.edu/news/uw-madison-grad-turns-biomass-safe-replacement-bpa) and WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio, https://www.wpr.org/news/uw-madison-research-bpa-alternative).
Jiansong Chen (Ph.D. student, the 2nd from the left in the photo) won the Graduate Student Award at the 7th International Conference on Nanogenerator and Piezotronics (NGPT 2024) held in May 19 – 23, Madison, WI. His presentation at the conference is “Chemical functionalized cellulose films for high-performance triboelectric nanogenerators in energy harvesting and self-powered sensing”.