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ChE PhD Student’s Research Featured on ChemPhysChem Cover
Chengyu Zhou, PhD’ 28, chemical engineering, co-authored a paper with ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao titled “Revealing Mechanisms of Lithium-Mediated Nitrogen Reduction Reaction From First-Principles Simulations,” which was featured on the cover of ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 7.
ChE PhD Student To Receive 2025 Kokes Award
Colin Gallagher, PhD’27, chemical engineering, who works in ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao’s lab, was awarded a 2025 Kokes Award, which he will receive at the 29th North American Catalysis Society Meeting (NAM29), to be held in Atlanta, Georgia in June
ChE PhD Student’s Research Featured on Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Cover
Colin Gallagher, PhD’27, chemical engineering, co-authored a paper with ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao titled “Graphene-Based Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction: Unraveling the Roles of Metals and Dopants in Tuning Activity,” which was featured as the cover art of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
ChE PhD Student Wins Best Poster Award at NECS
Chengyu Zhou, PhD’28, chemical engineering, who is advised by Qing Zhao, assistant professor of chemical engineering, won first place for the Best Poster Award at the New England Catalysis Symposium (NECS) for his poster “Computational Insights into Lithium-Mediated Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction Reaction for Sustainable Ammonia Production.”
NSF CAREER Award for Efficient, Environmentally Friendly Ammonia Production
ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao received a $618,100 NSF CAREER Award for “Computational Characterization of Reaction Mechanisms and Catalytic Microenvironments in Redox-Mediated Ammonia Electrosynthesis.” She is researching a more efficient and environmentally friendly ammonia production process; ammonia is a critical component of the production of fertilizer.
Advancing Methane Conversion Catalyst Research
ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao received a $110,000 American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award for “First-Principles Discovery of Single-Atom Alloys as Coke-Resistant Catalysts for Direct Methane Activation.” Using electronic structure theory, Zhao is designing catalysts at the atomic level to convert earth-abundant methane into value-added multi-carbon hydrocarbons.
New Methods for Ammonia Electrosynthesis Modeling
ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao was awarded a $537,226 NSF award for “Automated Embedded Correlated Wavefunction Theory for Kinetic Modeling in Heterogeneous Catalysis.”
Developing a Computer Model for Carbon Dioxide Conversion
ChE Associate Professor Richard West, ChE/COS Assistant Professor Magda Barecka, and ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao were awarded a $500,000 grant for “Accelerating Electrocatalyst Innovation: High-Throughput Automated Microkinetic, Multiscale, and Techno-economic Modeling” as part of the Creating Revolutionary Energy and Technology Endeavors (CREATE) Exploratory Topic managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
New Faculty Spotlight: Qing Zhao
Qing Zhao joins the Chemical Engineering department in January 2022 as an Assistant Professor.