Dr. Wang was recently interviewed by The New York Times, about the E.P.A.’s new rules to limit damage from disasters at chemical facilities. The rules require facilities to explicitly address threats such as wildfires or flooding, including those linked to climate change. See the story.
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Recent CJCE article featured in CIC News
João B. P. Soares, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJCE) Editor-in-Chief, selected “A comparative bibliometric study of the transport risk considerations of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas” to appear as one of the featured articles in the Issue Highlights in the June issue.
The article has been selected to be featured in the most recent issue of CIC News, a leading source of information in Canada’s chemical sciences and engineering community. See the story here.
World’s Top 2% Scientists
Stanford University has just published an updated list showcasing the world’s top 2% of scientists. Professor Wang has been ranked among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists in chemical engineering.
Details see October 2023 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators“
AIChE Best Fundamental Paper Award
Our paper titled “Thermal Stability of Metal−Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Concept, Determination, and Model Prediction Using Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning” by Harold U. Escobar-Hernandez, Lisa M. Pérez, Pingfan Hu, Fernando A. Soto, Maria I. Papadaki, Hong-Cai Zhou, and Qingsheng Wang which was published in Industrial Engineering & Chemistry Research, April 21, 2022, Vol. 61, pp. 5853−5862 was selected as the South Texas Section — AIChE’s 2022 Best Fundamental Paper Award.
You can access the paper on ACS Publications by following this link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.iecr.2c00561.
AICHE 8A Excellence in Graduate Research
Congratulations to Yufeng Quan, who has been selected for the AICHE 8A’s Excellence in Graduate Student Research. He will present his research, Efficient and Sustainable Manufacture of Polymeric Composites and Their Applications in Flame Retardancy, at this November’s AICHE national meeting in Orlando!
https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Session/52237
Dr. Wang Appointed Associate Editor of JOEH
The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) have appointed Dr. Wang as the new associate editors of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. Also known as JOEH, AIHA and ACGIH have jointly published the peer-reviewed journal on the knowledge and practice of occupational and environmental health and safety since 2004.
Full story is published here: https://www.acgih.org/news_articles/6830/.
Graduate students receive fellowships
Congratulations to two PhD students from our group receiving the department fellowship. Well done, Yufeng and Harold! Full Story
Yufeng Quan: Brunner-Barnes Fellowship
Harold Escobar: Jim and Kathy Holste Fellowship
Manufacturing metal-organic framework-based composites for efficiency
Dr. Qingsheng Wang, associate professor and George Armistead ’23 Faculty Fellow in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, and his team of researchers have spent over three years finding more efficient ways to manufacture metal-organic framework (MOF)-based composites for industrial applications such as flame retardants. Full Story in Phys.org
Research Investment Awarded: Determining the Value of Safety Professionals
The International Network of Safety and Health Professional Organizations (INSHPO), in collaboration with the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), the BCSP Foundation, the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals (BCRSP), and the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), are pleased to announce a team of qualified experts has been chosen to undergo the study examining the impact and value of using safety professionals in the workplace proposed by the organizations earlier this year.
Details see: https://www.bcsp.org/about/bcsp-news/research-investment-awarded-determining-the-value-of-safety-professionals/
Dr. Wang’s team was selected for this grant. Texas A&M University is the leading organization with Dr. Wang as the Principal Investigator. The team is comprised of:
- Sam Wang, PhD, PE, CSP, Texas A&M University
- Michael Larranaga, PhD, PE, CIH, CSP, FAIHA, REM Risk Consultants LLC
- James McIntosh, CSP, CIH, Marshall University
- Miaozong Wu, PhD, CSP, ARM, University of Central Missouri
Stabilizing emulsions with graphene quantum dots
Dr. Neil Canter, Contributing Editor | TLT Tech Beat July 2022
These emulsifiers function by assembling as solid particles at the oil-water interface.
KEY CONCEPTS
• Conventional emulsions are not sufficiently stabilized with surfactants over the long term.
• Thin and nanometer-wide planar carbon structures, known as graphene quantum dots, have been developed that demonstrate superior emulsion stability to surfactants in deionized water and in the presence of high levels of electrolytes.
• The zwitterionic nature of the graphene quantum dots allows the emulsifier to stabilize emulsions over a wide pH range from 3 to 12.
See Full Story: Magazine of Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers – STLE
