News and Media

Congratulations Dr. Filippas!

Lotanna Onua, a 3rd year PhD candidate, was awarded the 2024 Georgia Tech Pathbreaker's Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to diverse PhD students in the college of engineering who have shown an ability to succeed in the face of adversity. The award amount is $10,000 per year for a maximum of 3 years.

Tanishq wins the PURA Travel award to go to present at the AiChE conference at the end of this month!

Joshua wins the PURA Travel award to go to present at the AiChE conference at the end of this month!

Beverage cans have a 40 Billion USD market size. The new beverages introduced to the global market every year pose a risk to the strength and safety of the can. In collaboration with Novelis Inc., an aluminum rolling company headquartered in Atlanta, Alex Filippas from the Nian Liu lab published a research article in the journal Food Packaging and Shelf Life, reporting an electrochemical method to probe the degradation of aluminum can ends in real time.

Students visited our lab from Albany State University to learn more about electrochemistry. The students come from a diverse background of study not related to electrochemistry, so they were very excited to learn about what we do in the lab. Lotanna showed them the flow battery experiments and Zhitao showed them the zinc battery experiments. Dr. Liu explained the engineering side of electrochemistry. 

Nian Liu lab is part of a team led by New Lab LLC that won a $4 million grant from DOE's Storage Innovations (SI) 2030 strategic initiative, to innovate zinc batteries for long-duration energy storage.

Prof. Nian Liu has received tenure at Georgia Tech and promotion to Associate Professor. The promotions will officially take place in August.

Tanishq presented a poster at AICHE! Great work Tanishq!

The group went to Wok Chi Asian Kitchen for a group lunch

Evan Huang wins the President's Undergraduate Research Awards. Congragulations Evan!

Adam Hsieh joins the lab! Welcom Adam!

Nian Liu gave a keynote speech at the launch event of Lithium R+D+i Center in Universidad Católica del Norte (Antofagasta, Chile), an invited talk at the 35th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (Gold Coast, Australia), and an invited seminar at University of Queensland's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (Brisbane, Australia) .

Nian Liu gave seminars in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas-Austin and the Department of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego 

Nian Liu was invited to give a Materials Science and Engineering Colloquium at Columbia University. 

Alex Filippas received William R. Mclain Fellowship from School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Congratulations!