Tzahi Cath (CEE) and Kim Williams (CH) hosted a Membrane Research Workshop at Mines on Aug. 26 bringing together faculty and groups on campus conducting research focused on membrane separation processes. As many as 25 faculty members discussed the science and applied domains pertinent to their research with the goal of identifying opportunities for collaboration and program development.

Associate Division Director Hussein Amery, LAIS, is featured by National Public Radio as “source of the week.”

Will Vaughan, director of technology transfer, gave a presentation at the Aug. 20 Colorado Investment & Technology Resources Entrepreneur Series hosted by the Colorado Center for Renewable Energy Economic Development. Former Secretary of Energy Federico Peña also spoke at the event.

Mines President Paul Johnson has been awarded the Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal by the Water Environment Federation.

Professor Lincoln Carr (PH) has received an award from the National Science Foundation for “Open-System Quantum Many-Body Entangled Dynamics of Ultracold Molecules.” The open source code supported by this grant  has been downloaded nearly 1,000 times with more than 50 groups making active use of the code. This code treats strongly correlated entangled quantum dynamics, and the renewal below is to extend our methods to treat open quantum systems, where in fact almost nothing is known beyond a reservoir coupled to one or two qubits/quantum dots and a cavity mode.

Associate Professor Robert Braun (ME) and collaborators developed a novel storage method combining recent advances in reversible solid oxide electrochemical cells with sub-surface storage of CO2 and CH4, thereby enabling large-scale electricity storage with a round-trip efficiency exceeding 70 percent and an estimated storage cost around 3 ¢ kW-1 h-1, i.e., comparable to pumped hydro and much better than previously proposed technologies. The results are published in the latest issue of “Energy & Environmental Science.”