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
News
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
Spring 2022 Graduation
Congratulations to all students graduating this Spring from our group.
Ruiqing Shen will join the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Marshall University as Assistant Professor this Fall semester. Great to see next generation of the Wang academic family. Wish you the best in your academic career!
Pallavi Kumari will join Intel as Process Engineer. Seungho Lee will work at POSCO in South Korea and Bryan M. Wan working for Cenovus Energy in Canada. Best wishes to all of you!
Stabilizing emulsion research improves firefighting operations and more
Researchers at Texas A&M University have found a way to control the charge of nanoparticles on a two-fluid interface to create a more stable system in which its charge can also be switched and controlled. The ability to change the charge of nanoparticles on a two-fluid interface — specifically, an oil-water interface — would result in a surface that could acclimate itself to fit many diverse applications, such as a more durable firefighting operation and even controlled release in certain medications.
Full Story in TAMU Engineering
Wang named George Armistead ‘23 Faculty Fellow
Dr. Qingsheng Wang has been named George Armistead ‘23 Faculty Fellow. Wang, associate professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, joined Texas A&M University in 2019. His current research focuses on flame retardant and composite manufacturing, process safety using machine learning, and fire and explosion dynamics, such as battery fire, fire whirl, and hydrogen explosion.
Graduation and Preliminary Exams
Congratulations on three recent graduated PhD students. Wish you all the best in the next chapter of your life:
- Zeren Jiao, PhD, August 2021, join KBR
- Hongfei Xu, PhD, December 2021, join Ascent Materials
- Chenxi Ji, PhD, December 2021, join ABS Consulting
Congratulations on three PhD students on their successful passing of preliminary exams: Ryan Shen, Rong Ma and Trent Parker. Wish you all having successful final defenses soon next year!
Chemical engineering department awards 10 graduate fellowships
Two PhD students from our group have been awarded graduate fellowships: Ruiqing Shen and Trent Parker. Congratulations to them.
Full story, check it here.
Trent Parker Ruiqing Shen
Wang’s review paper on machine learning selected as American Chemical Society Editors’ Choice
An article written by Dr. Qingsheng Wang, associate professor and director of the safety engineering program in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, was selected as an American Chemical Society (ACS) Editors’ Choice. Graduate students Zeren Jiao, Pingfan Hu and Hongfei Xu from the Wang Group are co-authors of the paper. In the article, “Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Chemical Health and Safety: A Systematic Review of Techniques and Applications,” which originally appeared in the journal ACS Chemical Health & Safety, Wang and his team examined the current literature surrounding machine learning and deep learning in the context of safety engineering.
ACS Editors’ Choice is a service designed to feature scientific articles of broad public interest and to make this material widely accessible to both the scholarly community and general public. This is an honor given to only one article from the entire ACS portfolio each day of the year.