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IUPAC Announces “Active Adsorption” Among 2024 Top Ten Emerging Technologies in Chemistry

Active adsorption extends the potential of adsorption phenomena and provides a transformative approach to controlling chemistry at surfaces and interfaces.

ACS

Our Team Received 2024 ACS GCIPR Ignition Grant for Greener Peptide Synthesis

Developing novel methods and strategies for greener synthesis and purification of peptides

NatChem

Our First Collaborated Publication from Duke is Now on Nature Chemistry!

High-Performance Porous Crystals Pave the Way for Future Hydrogen Storage in Fuel Cell Vehicles!

Duke Trailblazer

| Duke Engineering

Duke Trailblazer: Liang Feng

Together, Feng’s work is a discovery that breaks with tradition–particularly in the way it can directly impact how carbon dioxide is removed from the air and the ocean.

ARPA-E

| Duke Engineering

Liang Feng Wins Early Career Award for Carbon-Capture Research

Feng joins IGNIITE 2024, which focuses on early-career scientists and engineers converting disruptive ideas into impactful energy technologies

ARPA-E

| Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

ARPA-E Announces $11.5 Million to Support 23 Early-Career Innovators Accelerating Transformative Energy Technologies

Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNIITE 2024) Focuses on Empowering Next Generation of Researchers to Advance U.S. Leadership in the Clean Energy Transition

C&EN

| Chemical & Engineering News

Meet the American Chemical Society’s first sustainability star, Liang Feng

Duke University professor develops innovative materials and mechanisms to address global energy, climate, and health challenges

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| Duke Engineering

Liang Feng and Team Land Funding for Negative Emission Science Research

News of the funded proposal came with an additional moment to celebrate with the Duke MEMS faculty member being named a Scialog Fellow for Negative Emission Science

Climate Duke

| DukeStories

Meet Duke’s new climate faculty of 2023

Throughout the disciplines and across its schools and programs, Duke is employing and empowering climate-fluent leaders to educate a new generation of students.

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Group Launch

Feng Group Officially Opened on Nov. 1 / Highlighted by The Duke Daily

Scialog

Professor Liang Feng Selected as Scialog Fellow for Negative Emission Science

Liang Feng was selected as a Scialog Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) and will attend its NES fourth conference on November 15-18, 2023, in Tucson, AZ.

Welcome Nine New Members to the Feng Group

We are thrilled to welcome nine new members to the Feng Group: Dr. Pengcheng "David" Yao, Xiaotong Du, Arizie Johannes Sylvester, Albert Li, Alexandra Schaffer, Andrea Barboza Hurtado, Tony Cao, Gilbert Rosario Acevedo, and Islam Tayeb!

| Duke Engineering

Liang Feng: Creating Porous Materials for Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Sustainable Energy Solutions

New faculty member Liang Feng is engineering platforms to store gasses for climate and energy applications such as capturing carbon or fueling vehicles

| Northwestern

Liang Feng Will Be Joining Duke University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

Liang Feng will be departing from Northwestern University this fall to embark on his independent academic career at Duke University. He will join Duke University’s Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS).

| Science

Tiny labmade motors could one day suck pollutants from the air and harvest precious metals

Tiny motors use chemical fuels to store colored rings on bead-bound rods.