Yan Wang is first author on a paper in ES&T reporting results from a collaborative project with Dr. Vidic and Dr. Khanna. Funding from PA WRRC kickstarted this project and all the hard work has finally come to fruition. Congrats Yan!
Press on this paper:
​Observer Reporter
Water Online
Environmental News Network
Science Daily
AZO CleanTech
Phys.org
EurekAlert
Civil and Structural Engineering Magazine
R&D Magazine

Congrats to Ashley on her perspective in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering: Rational Ligand Design to Improve Agrochemical Delivery Efficiency and Advance Agriculture Sustainability! 

Dr. Gilbertson is featured on the RSC blog where she is interviewed about the recent emerging investigator article led by Lisa!

Lisa Stabryla publishes her first, first-author paper in Environmental Science: Nano! The paper, "It's Not All About the Ion: Support for Particle-Specific Contributions to Silver Nanoparticle Antimicrobial Activity" is part of the journal's emerging investigator series.

​Dr. Gilbertson speaks at the Gordon Research Conference on Nanoscale Science and Engineering for Agriculture and Food Systems. Her talk, Designing from a Systems Perspective, was part of the Young Investigator Session.

Dr. Gilbertson and colleagues recently published a new framework for materials design and selection in Nature Nanotechnology. Check it out! "A Framework for Sustainable Nanomaterial Selection and Design Based on Performance, Hazard, and Economic Considerations"

It was an exciting and productive year in the Gilbertson Group! 

Many thanks to PPG for sponsoring research in our lab! Nathalia Aquino de Carvalho was awarded a 1-year Graduate Research Fellowship and Lisa Stabryla received a conference travel grant. Congrats ladies!

Postdoc, Leila Pourzahedi, leads a collaborative publication in Environmental Science: Nano entitled "Life Cycle Considerations of Nano-Enabled Agrochemicals: Are Today's Tools up to the Task?". This paper is featured on the cover of the May 1, 2018 issue.

PhD student Josh Urso publishes his first paper in Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering on a new sustainability metric - atom conversion efficiency - applied to agriculture fertilization. The paper was featured on the cover of the April 2, 2018 issue. 

Congrats to Nathaniel for receiving an Undergraduate Research Award from the Mindlin Foundation! 

A new publication from our collaborative research with the Millstone group is now in Environmental Science: Nano. Congrats Katie and Lisa!

New publication from our group in ES: Nano - "Opportunities to Advance Sustainable Design of Nano-Enabled Agriculture Identified Through a Literature Review". Congrats to Yan and Joy!

Congrats to Yan who was chosen as runner up in the Carbon Nanomaterials Graduate Student Award competition at the 2017 AIChE meeting!

It was another busy spring and summer for the group. We welcomed two undergraduates, Cole and Sean, as summer research fellows and the group was busy presenting at conferences.

We also celebrated several accomplishments:

Dr. Gilbertson was awarded the 3M non-tenured faculty award and the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.  Many thanks to 3M and ORAU for the honor and support!

3M press release
ORAU press release

Dr. Gilbertson also received her first NSF grant! Big thanks to NSF and the reviewers for their support. Looking forward to continued collaboration with the Perreault and Fairbrother groups.

Joy, Lisa and Yan presented their research at the ​Engineering Sustainability Conference!

Lisa was inducted into the Carson Scholar Hall of Fame. She was also selected to receive the Ciba Award from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute (GCI) and awarded the highly prestigious NDSEG fellowship. Congrats Lisa!!

Carson Scholar press release
NDSEG press release

Yan's paper on the rational design of graphene oxide was published in Green Chemistry!

Dr. Gilbertson's collaborative work with the LCnano team was published in ES: Nano!

Lisa was inducted into the Carson Scholars Hall of Fame! She is one of twenty Carson Scholars Fund alumni recognized for her continued contributions to her community. 

​Check is out! ​http://carsonscholars.org/scholarships/hall-of-fame/

The summer term flew by without acknowledgement of group accomplishments!

May 2016 
Ms. Joy Yin passes her qualifying exam! Congrats Joy!

June 2016
Joy participates in the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Portland Oregon, where she presented her poster entitled, "Systems-Level Evaluation of Nano-enabled Applications in the Agricultural Sector".
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July 2016
Yan participates in the Carbon Conference presenting a poster entitled, "Toward rational design of carbon nanomaterials: decoupling the role of material structure and surface chemistry on electrochemical and antimicrobial activity". 

August 2016
Lisa is awarded a graduate scholarship from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). Congrats Lisa!

The Gilbertson group is proud to share a sneak peak of their Benedum Hall home and equipment highlights:

Coming Soon!  Anton Paar Litesizer 500 

Dr. Gilbertson's biological work is housed on the 7th floor where the CEE department maintains a BL2 certified space and necessary equipment (e.g., laminar flow hoods, autoclave, incubators, UV-vis, centrifuges, fridges and freezers) to carry out this work.

Please contact Dr. Gilbertson if you are interested in using any of her equipment and/or collaborating on a project! 

Dr. Gilbertson publishes research in Environmental Science and Technology. This was a collaborative project between researchers at Yale University and University of Washington. This is also Eva Albalghiti's first publication! Eva is an environmental engineering undergraduate student at Yale and worked with Dr. Gilbertson to collect data included in the publication. Congrats Eva!

You can read and download the article using the following link:  
Shape-Dependent Surface Reactivity and Antimicrobial Activity of Nano-Cupric Oxide