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Chemicals in air conditioners are thousands of times more dangerous for the environment than tailpipe emissions from cars. Researchers at Lehigh University are working to change that.
David Vicic, Howard S. Bunn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Lehigh University, recently announced a breakthrough in chemical research: His team used the metal iridium to functionalize hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants – the ubiquitous chemicals that cool refrigerators, medicines, homes, and office buildin
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Fri, 09/19/2025
Chemicals in air conditioners are thousands of times more dangerous for the environment than tailpipe emissions from cars. Researchers at Lehigh University are working to change that.
David Vicic, Howard S. Bunn Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Lehigh University, recently announced a breakthrough in chemical research: His team used the metal iridium to functionalize hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants – the ubiquitous chemicals that cool refrigerators, medicines, homes, and office buildin
Sun, 09/07/2025
Dr. Mark Shiflett, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas reaches a career milestone of 11,000 citations.
Thu, 09/04/2025
Dr. Mark Shiflett, Director of the newly funded National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center "Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH)", delivered an invited Plenary Lecture at the 21st European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ESFC-21) in Lisbon, presenting the vision and mission of the NSF-funded EARTH ERC.
Tue, 08/19/2025
The University of Kansas Center for Technology Commercialization (KUCTC) has selected six promising research projects for its inaugural Rock Chalk Ready program, a universitywide initiative designed to mature early-stage innovations and position them for commercialization success.
Mon, 08/18/2025
As a high school technology teacher, Karen Bogoski has coached over a thousand students through the challenges of engineering projects, but this summer, she was the one tackling a project, and her coaches were University of Maryland (UMD) engineering students.
She worked at UMD’s College Park campus through four weeks of hot and steamy weather, while many other teachers were enjoying time off. But the muggy days only helped motivate her. Guided by a team of students from UMD's A. James Clar