Advancements in the treatment and processing of electronic waste with sustainability: a review of metal extraction and recovery technologies Emily Hsu, a,b Katayun Barmak, b,c Alan C. Westa,b,d and Ah-Hyung A. Park *a,b,d The amount of electronic waste (e-waste) globally has doubled in just five years, from approximately 20 million tons to 40 million tons… read more

Alissa Park won the PSRI Lectureship Award in Fluidization at the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology, taking place at the AIChE Meeting held April 22-26th 2018 in Orlando, Florida.                         Guane Rim won the Particle Technology Forum Student Award, also at the 8th World… read more

Lenfest Center Visiting Researcher Seokyoon Moon of Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) was selected as a winner at the Spring 2019  ACS Student Poster Session in Orlando Florida.   Poster Title: Thermodynamic and Spectroscopic Investigation of Novel Promoters Tuning Cage Structure of Gas Hydrates for CO2 Capture and Gas Storage’  

Written by Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY PALISADES, New York — Peter Kelemen spends time in Oman looking for ways to pull carbon out of the air and put it back underground. His colleague, David Goldberg, looks at ways to store it far below the sea floor off the Oregon coast. Chemical engineer Alissa Park is… read more

Two Lenfest Center Students were selected as the Fall 2018 winners of the ENFL Student Poster Session Visiting Researcher Kang Zhang of Zhejiang University Poster Title: Carbon-negative hydrogen production from unconventional biomass           Tony Feric of Columbia University Poster Title: Novel liquid-like Nanoparticle Organic Hybrid Materials (NOHMs)–based Fluids for Combined CO2… read more

Sep 27 2018 | By Holly Evarts | Video and Image Credit: Jyotirmoy Mandal/Columbia Engineering Columbia Engineers make white paint whiter—and cooler—by removing white pigment and invent a polymer coating, with nano-to-microscale air voids, that acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint. New York, NY—September 27, 2018—With… read more

August 24, 2017 On May 25, 2017, Columbia University and Baotou Steel launched the joint-venture pilot project at the Columbia Beijing Center. This event consisted of a panel discussion and press conference. Details of the groundbreaking new technology and the planning of the pilot in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region were discussed for the first… read more

Floating Solar Rig Produces Hydrogen Fuel By Charles Q. Choi Illustration: Justin Bui/Columbia EngineeringAn artist’s rendering shows a hypothetical “solar fuels rig” floating on the open sea. A floating “solar fuels rig” could one day use solar energy to split apart seawater and generate hydrogen fuel. A team of scientists recently described the design for the… read more

Rutgers Energy Institute and Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy WIE program focused on female leadership in the energy sector you can view the moderated panel discussion and open question and answer.

Columbia Engineers use ice-templating to control electrolyte structure in lithium batteries; solid-state is non-flammable, non-toxic, and flexible with longer battery life Schematic of vertically aligned and connected ceramic channels for enhancing ionic conduction. In the left figure, ceramic particles are randomly dispersed in the polymer matrix, where ion transport is blocked by the polymer matrix… read more