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College of Engineering Experience Camp

July 18, 2022

Students investigate engineering disciplines at summer camp 

After a two-year hiatus, nearly 300 students are registered this summer for UIC’s Engineering Experience Camp

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering ChE PhD student Rohan Sartape with a Migration Assisted Moisture Gradient (MAMG) CO2 capture unit as part of professor Meenesh Singh's research in Chicago , January 31, 2022. UIC Engineering/Jim Young - ChE, Graduate, Lab, Magazine

January 27, 2022

Stackable artificial leaf uses less power than lightbulb to capture 100 times more carbon than other systems

UIC College of Engineering scientists are revolutionizing carbon capture technology

September 8, 2021

Combining sunlight and wastewater nitrate to make the world’s No. 2 chemical

UIC engineers convert nitrates to ammonia in sustainable electrochemical reaction with high solar-to-fuel efficiency

Soap bubbles.

June 17, 2021

Researchers discover foam ‘fizzics’

Breakthrough could improve production, application in a broad range of industries

Conductive Graphenic Blanket

April 13, 2020

UIC chemical engineers get ‘muddy’ to develop renewable fuel cell

Researchers blanket bacteria with graphene to harness sustainable power

December 17, 2019

Chemical engineering team develops novel membrane material for water purification, energy harvesting

First to create a negatively charged surface on a membrane

June 21, 2019

UIC, AbbVie scientists develop a novel device to screen advanced crystalline materials

Device will help scientists and pharmaceutical companies test formation of drug substance

hands holding a cell phone

September 25, 2018

UIC chemical engineers first to functionalize boron nitride with other nanosystems

Researchers unlock potential for improving composite material

Vikas Berry and Ankit Mehta

February 21, 2017

East Meets West: First use of graphene to detect cancer cells

System can detect activity level of single interfaced cell