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Jonathan’s paper entitled “Bilayer-mediated assembly of cationic nanoparticles adsorbed to lipid bilayers: Insights from molecular simulations” has been published in the AIChE Journal! This article will be included as part of the 2020 Futures collection. …

We’re very happy to announce that the Center on the Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics – led by Professor George Huber at UW-Madison – will be funded by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies office. …

Zhizhang’s recent paper on screening solvent systems for lignin product separation was recently highlighted by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center – well-done, Zhizhang!

Reid received the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award – thank you to 3M and our sponsors for the award!

Three new papers have recently been published, including: 1) a study by Alex using molecular dynamics simulations and machine learning to design solvent mixtures for biomass conversion reactions (with the Huber and Dumesic groups), 2) …

Brad is the first recipient of the UW-Madison MRSEC Excellence in Open Science Prize! This award recognizes contributions of tools and data to the greater scientific community and higlights Brad’s effort to openly share data. …

Alex was announced as a recipient of the ACS Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award! This award honors graduate students in the computational chemistry community and encourages travel to the ACS conference. Unfortunately, the ACS Spring …

A news article on Alex’s work has been featured on the department website. Check it out!    

Two graduate students earned nice honors recently: Samartha received a graduate student travel award for the Biophysical Society annual meeting and Jonathan was awarded the PPG Fellowship in CBE. Congratulations to you both!

The Van Lehn group will be headed to AIChE with presentations from a variety of group members. Come check them out! Reid – Monday, Nov 11, 1:15 – 1:35 PM, Spotlights in Thermodynamics and Computational …