Posts Categorized: News 2022
The 2022 Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CCEC) will be running between October 23 to 26 in Vancouver, BC. Attending the conference through subsidies from the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry are 21 undergraduate students. Additionally, ChemE will be…
The Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry is looking to hire a tenure stream faculty in the area of sustainable chemical engineering. The appointment can be at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. All application materials, including…
The Centre for Research and Applications in Fluidic Technologies (CRAFT), co-led by Professor Milica Radisic, has opened a new and expanded Tissue Foundry at the University of Toronto. The new facility builds CRAFT’s fabrication capacity following the launch of its…
Chemical engineering PhD candidate Folake Oyewole’s thesis project was inspired in part by Zobo, a hibiscus-based drink that is popular in her home country of Nigeria. “People consume Zobo as a cold beverage in Nigeria because it’s refreshing and claimed…
New insight into how nanoparticles form could advance technologies from solar cells to medical tests
A research team from U of T Engineering has discovered previously unknown phenomena in the growth of nanoparticles. The insights could open new ways of engineering these tiny structures for a variety of purposes, from designing next-generation solar cells to…
As the sales of electric vehicles (EV) continue to surge worldwide, demand for metals needed to build lithium-ion batteries is surging along with it. A new technique developed by Professor Gisele Azimi (ChemE, MSE) could help meet this challenge by…
Sourojeet Chakraborty, a PhD candidate at the Laboratory of Complex Fluids, will be presenting his research on a new theory to successfully predict the design of emulsions with targeted shelf-lives that he developed along with his doctoral advisor, Professor Arun…
Professor Nicole Weckman (ISTEP, ChemE) has been appointed the Paul Cadario Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Toronto. The research chair is the first of its kind in Canada and will advance engineering solutions for vulnerable communities all…
Over the last two weeks, ChemE kicked-off the 2022-23 academic year with a series of orientation activities. Events on September 7, introduced new undergrad and grad students to our community of leaders who make ChemE the best chemical engineering program…
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are a popular energy storage format for both the portable electronics and electric vehicle markets, putting them at the heart of billions of devices people rely on every day. However, the rising demand for rechargeable energy storage…
Showing 11 - 20 of 80 results