A group of researchers in Italy are looking to graphene oxide for “green” anti-bacterial properties that could enhance medical devices and one day decrease the need for antibiotics to fight post-operative infections and reduce recovery times.

Hear from Dr. Anju Gupta, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, as she discusses her experience organizing an Annual Meeting session developed for Young Professionals new to academia.

Open innovation may be the latest buzzword, but it's value to chemical engineers goes well beyond a shiny new expression to toss about. Check out this review of one of the latest books dedicated to the subject.

A new generation of microgrids is beginning to win funding from investors as a profitable way to bring power to the 620 million Africans who lack access to electricity.

Technology that implants bacteria in mosquitos shows real hope for slowing or stopping the spread of both Zika and Dengue.

This recently published tutorial in the Learn ChemE series explains each step in a refrigeration cycle and the energy balance for each step. The process is shown in a pressure-enthalpy diagram.

Learn about the work Tim is doing to unlock new technology that could be used to produce a biodegradable plastic from a renewable grass crops.

Learn more about what the AIChE Environmental Division offers and how you can get involved.

Meet this month's featured YP, a graduate of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, who works as a process optimization engineer.

By loading warehouse rooftops with with solar panels and selling electricity back to the grid, Prologis is a global model of profitability and sustainability.

If you could eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito responsible for spreading the Zika virus in the Americas, would you? And should you? Those are some of the big questions being tossed about among biologists, ecologists, public health experts, and others today because the technology exists to bid farewell to the pesky mosquito.