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December 2024: Sharon's graduation ceremony.

December 2024: Sharon defends her PhD dissertation and the commitee was very pleased with her research and performance. Congratulations!

October 2024: Our journal paper that detailed a unique procedure to integrate adsorbent bed 3-D printing with in-situ resin cured adsorbent coatings was published in Applied Thermal Engineering. Congratulations, Faraz! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2024.124708
October 2024: Our journal paper on yeast-engineered porous adsorbent layer fabrication is published in Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. We combined the principles of biomaterials, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering to make a thin porous cake that captures CO2! Congratulations Sharon, Kaleem, and team. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.114362
September 2024: Darshan attends the DOE Energy Earthshot summit held for the PIs of the awarded projects.
August 2024: Stephan joins AETL and AETL outing at Bowlero

August 2024: Thanks to the Journal of Energy Storage for publishing our computational work on an adsorption-based energy storage system. Here, the system works like a typical battery—it charges quickly and then discharges slowly, yielding a near-similar discharging temperature as the charging temperature. Very fruitful collaboration with IIT Kanpur. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2024.113097
July 2024: Rithwik joins AETL as an MS student. Welcome!
July 2024: AETL goes to Anaheim, CA for ASME ES/SHTC Conference. Sharon and Kaleem present their work on yeast-engineered adsorbent coatings, and Darshan presents Faraz's work on SLA printed adsorbent layers. Darshan also chairs some sessions. Finally, we said a quick hello the Pacific. Overall, a very productive trip.

June 2024: Our paper on fabricating controlled void size adsorbent layers within minutes using photopolmer resins and an acid-base reaction is published in the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering. Congratulations Faraz and the team! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2024.113389
May 2024: Our NSF ERI proposal focused on simultaneous interactions between gases, liquids and adsorbents has been funded. This two-year research will experimentally and computationally investigate the effects of adsorbent wetting and porosity, heating rates and liquid saturation on two-phase flow regimes in microchannels and will help develop more efficient carbon dioxide separation systems.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2347493
May 2024: Samuel and Caroline join AETL. Welcome!
May 2024: Animesh and Kapil successfully defend their MS thesis at IITK. Congratulations!
- April 2024: AETL celebtrates Faraz's and Daniel's graduation!
April 2024: Faraz successfully defends his PhD dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Ege!

April 2024: Daniel successfully defends his MS thesis. Congratulations!

April 2024: Our paper on ethanol-enanced adsorbent structuring is published in the reputed Separation and Purification Technology. Sharon led this effort! Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2024.127411
April 2024: Juan successfully defends his MS thesis. Congratulations!
March 2024: Sharon and Emmy are awarded outstanding students of the year. Congratulations!
February 2024: Emmy joins AETL. Welcome!
November 2023: Sharon successfully defends her PhD proposal. Congratulations!

September 2023: AETL goes to aerial adventures to celebrate some amazing things happening in the group.

September 2023: Our DOE BER/BES Energy Earthshot proposal is funded. Dr. Justin North from Ohio State will be leading these efforts. Looking forward to doing some exciting science and working with our fantastic team.
Title: Biological routes for synthesizing the industrial platform chemical, propylene, from deconstructed lignin waste and captured carbon dioxide produced during lignin valorization into bio-oil

Team: Justin North (PI), Toufiq Reza, Darshan G Pahinkar, Bill Cannon
September 2023: Taylor and Kaleem join AETL. Welcome!
August 2023: Nitish Chauhan successfully defended his MS thesis and did a perfect job in his presentation. The committee had no corrections for him. Congratulations!
July 2023: Darshan presents our work on energy storage technologies using adsorption at ASME ES conference 2023 and hosts a student Hackthon.

July 2023: Our paper on ethanol-based washcoating of MIL-101 (Cr) inside capillaries in published in Chemical Engineering Journal (Impact Factor 15.1). Congrats Faraz and team!
May 2023: Faraz passes his PhD Proposal Defense. The committee was highly pleased with his depth and breath of the completed and planned research. Great work and Congratulations! The AETL core team goes to dinner to celebrate it.
March 2023: Faraz and Sharon successfully passed their PhD comprehensive exams. Congratulations!
March 2023: Darshan presents two topics, "Viscosity of Adsorbent Slurries" and "Porous Adsorbent Lyaers using UV Cured Photoplymer Resin" and chairs a session at the Annual ASTFE conference in Washington DC.
February 2023: Darshan delivers an invited talk on "Enhancing the Appeal of Thermally Driven Energy Systems: From Synthesis to Demonstration" at University of Connecticut, CT.
January 2023: Lasya and Juan join AETL. Welcome!
January 2023: Daniel Hocheimy joins AETL. Welcome Daniel!
January 2023: AETL goes bowling.
November 2022: AETL was awarded two COES IRI grants worth $51,200 in total. Congratulations AETL!
September 2022: Our paper on novel washcoating method for MIL-101 (Cr) adsorbent onto substrates and its characterization is published in IECR
September 2022: Our paper on characterization on intermetallic compounds during TLP bonding of AlSiC is published in Microelectronics Reliability
July 2022: Darshan presents two papers at the Energy and Sustainability 2022 Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
May 2022: Sharon joins AETL for her PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Welcome Sharon!
March 2022: Darshan presents new research from AETL at Florida Academy of Sciences conference.
October 2021: AETL awarded two COES Institutional Research Incentive awards to develop a breadboard CO2 capture setup with Raman Laser Gas Analyzer. Congratulations AETL!
August 2021: Nic’s farewell:
August 2021: Animesh Vyas and Kapil Sharma join AETL as MS students, co-advised by Dr. Vaibhav Arghode at IIT Kanpur.
August 2021: Nic graduates from Florida Tech with BS in Mechanical Engineering. He moves on to pursue his master's degree at UCF. Congratulations, Nic!
June 2021: Darshan presents the new work on heat pump water heater at ASME Energy and Sustainability conference.
May 2021: Faraz Ege joins AETL as a PhD student. Welcome, Faraz!
March 2021: Nic Lohay joins AETL as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Nic!
February 2021: AETL excited to get a new laboratory space in OEC 320.
January 2021: Chidinma joins AETL as a PhD student co-advised by Dr. Samuel Graham at Georgia Tech (Now the Dean at UMD)
October 2020: Darshan organizes mentorship workshop at ASME InterPACK 2021.
September 2020: Nitish Chauhan joins AETL as a Master's student. Welcome, Nitish!
September 2020: Our patent on novel bonding technique of aluminum nitride and aluminum silicon carbide is published online.
July 2020: Our article on high performance adsorption heat pumps is published in the International Journal of Refrigeration.
March 2020: Our article on computational and experimental analysis of the thermal environment in memristors is published in AIP Advances.
January 2020: Darshan joins Florida Tech. Energy Systems Laboratory conceived.