A new electrode design for lithium-ion batteries has been shown to potentially reduce the charging time from hours to minutes by replacing the conventional graphite electrode with a network of tin-oxide nanoparticles.

Professor Litster leads one of four pre-eminent teams named by the College of Engineering to focus on research.

Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and his research group have demonstrated a new process to convert all biomass into liquid fuel, and the method could make possible mobile processing plants.

Elcin Icten, a Ph.D. student in School of Chemical Engineering, received a scholarship from Women in Hi Tech.