Technology Licensing Feature: Using Capillary Foams to Recover Spilled Oil

Georgia Tech inventors (Carson Meredith, Sven Holger Behrens, and Yi Zhang) have identified a method that utilizes surfactant-free, oil-tolerant capillary foams consisting of a combination of colloidal particles, oil, water, and gas.…

Marilyn Brown Tapped as First Woman to Receive Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award

Marilyn Brown is a world-leading expert on renewable energy and energy efficiency, a transformative intellectual thinker, and one of the founders of the field of energy and climate policy. Her research has shaped energy policy in the U.S. and…

Carbon Tracker Lets Georgians Monitor Emissions

Georgians can now track where greenhouse gas emissions come from thanks to a tool that estimates those emissions at the state and county level. Developed by Georgia Tech professors, the interactive map allows users to filter publicly available…

Sholl Appointed to New Department of Energy Office

David Sholl has been appointed as a senior portfolio advisor in the Department of Energy's new Office for Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). OCED has been allocated over $20B through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for large-scale…

BioMADE Supports Georgia Tech Researchers to Strengthen American Competitiveness in the Bioindustrial Manufacturing Industry

BioMADE, a Manufacturing Innovation Institute sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, has recently funded a research project at Georgia Tech entitled ‘Stress Testing Supply Chains and their Ecosystems for Levels of Trust, Security, Resilience,…

Atlanta Company Converts Hard-to-recycle Plastics into Fuel

ATLANTA — An Atlanta company is making the world a cleaner place with new technology. Nexus Circular in southwest Atlanta has converted millions of pounds of landfill-bound plastics back into oil and wax to be used for new plastics production.…

Nearly Two-Thirds of Georgians Support Immediate Action on Climate, Survey Shows

A majority of Georgia residents strongly support new solar and wind power capacity over new coal-fired plants and believe the state should set a carbon emissions reduction goal, according to a new survey conducted for researchers at Georgia Tech and…

IChemE Junior Sargent Medal

Fani Boukouvala, assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and faculty member of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute, is the first recipient of the Institution of Chemical Engineers' Junior Sargent…

Blair Brettmann Named 2021 Rising Star by American Chemical Society

Blair Brettmann, assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) and faculty member of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) was recognized as a rising star in the February 9, 2022 special issue of ACS Polymers…

Agribusiness and Forest Product Innovations Among Projects Emphasized In NIFA Director Tour of Georgia Tech

In January, Georgia Tech hosted Carrie Castille, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), on campus to show Georgia Tech’s impact on food processing, agricultural, and forestry research. NIFA, which operates within…