RiCeME Researchers

Menachem Elimelech

Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nancy and Clint Carlson Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • Membrane-based processes at the water-energy nexus
  • Advanced materials for next-generation membranes
  • Membrane technologies for desalination and wastewater reuse

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Shihong Lin

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Separation science and technology for resource sustainability
  • Water treatment and desalination
  • Critical mineral extraction and recovery
  • Brine management

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Beza Getachew

Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering Research Faculty, NSF NEWT Center

  • Self-healing Materials for Environmental Applications (including membranes)
  • Electrochemical Fouling and Scaling Removal from Membranes
  • Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Membrane Materials

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Raul Hernandez Sanchez

Norman Hackerman Welch Young Investigator, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

  • Bottom-up polymer construction for PFAS capture
  • Anion recognition platforms for environmental remediation
  • Supramolecular architectures advancing host:guest chemistry

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Qilin Li

Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering

  • Advanced materials and novel processes for desalination and water purification
  • Resource recovery from municipal and industrial wastewater
  • Decentralized water treatment and reuse systems

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Jun Lou

Professor, Materials Science and NanoEngineering and Rice Advanced Materials Institute

  • Nanomaterials for energy, environmental and sustainability applications
  • Development of in situ small-scale mechanical, electromechanical, chemo-mechanical and biomechanical testing methods
  • Additive manufacturing of advanced material systems

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Thomas Senftle

Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, NSF NEWT Center

  • Multi-scale modeling (electronic and atomistic scales)
  • Heterogeneous catalysis
  • Energy and environmental applications

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Rafael Verduzco

Professor and Associate Chair, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Rice Advanced Materials Institute

  • Polymeric Membranes for Recovery and Decontamination
  • Organic Nanoporous Materials
  • Complex polymers for sustainability and energy applications

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Haotian Wang

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science & NanoEngineering, and Chemistry
Dean Fellow for Sustainability, George R. Brown School of Engineering and Computing

  • Electrochemical separation
  • Electrocatalysis
  • Electrolyzer engineering

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