12/2024 – Kai attended the Winter 2024 Commencement. Link: https://youtu.be/6zsIBTtMXU0 @1:06:55
12/2024 – We had a farewell party for Kai Yang celebrating his wonderful time as a PhD student at Qin Lab.
11/2024 – Mohan gave an invited seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Washington University.
11/2024 – Ziyan presented her research at the 2024 Water@UW-Madison Fall Art & Science Poster Session.
11/2024 – Mohan gave an invited seminar in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Marquette University.
11/2024 – Kai has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. Yang!
10/2024 – New paper: “Adaptable Plasmonic Membrane Sensors for Fast and Reliable Detection of Trace Low-Micrometer Microplastics in Lake Water” has been published in Environmental Science & Technology. We made it open access!
10/2024 – Our group participated in the Wisconsin Science Festival and talked about nano- and microplastics to K-12 students.
09/2024 – New paper: “Effects of chloride transport on the bioelectrochemical remediation of nitrate-contaminated groundwater“ has been published in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology.
09/2024 – Mohan gave an invited seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UIUC.
09/2024 – New paper: “Spontaneous Oxidation of Organic Matter and Ammonium Uptake from Manure Wastewater by Redox-Active Materials“ has been published in ACS Energy Letters.
08/2024 – Mohan, Kenzie, and Ziyan gave oral presentations at the ACS Fall 2024 National Meeting in Denver, CO.
08/2024 – Mohan joined the AEESP Student and Post-Doc Services Committee.
08/2024 – Kai was selected to receive the CAPEES Poster Competition Award. Congratulations!
07/2024 – Mohan gave a poster presentation at the GRC Membranes: Materials and Processes Conference.
07/2024 – Ziyan was selected to receive the Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Award ($1500). Congratulations!
06/2024 – Kai, Kenzie, and Ziyan were selected to receive the CEE Graduate Student Support Competition Award. Congratulations!
06/2024 – Kenzie was awarded the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations!
06/2024 – Mohan received the 2024 International Water Association (IWA) Membrane Technology Specialist Group (MTSG) Rising Star Award.
06/2024 – Mohan gave a talk at the Water Quality for a Sustainable Future Think Tank Workshop.
05/2024 – Mohan gave an oral presentation at the ECS meeting in San Francisco, CA.
05/2024 – David Xiong joined the lab as a Freshwater@UW Summer Scholar. He is funded by the Freshwater@UW Summer Research Opportunities Program.
05/2024 – Mohan gave an invited talk at the Electrochemical Synthesis Workshop.
05/2024 – Check the article Mohan wrote in the Conversation: Link
04/2024 – New paper: “Enhancing Selective Ammonium Transport in Membrane Electrochemical Systems“ has been published in Water Research.
04/2024 – Andrew Beaudet was selected to receive the 2024-2025 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
04/2024 – Our group participated in UW Madison Engineering Expo and talked about “sustainable water and wastewater treatment” to K-12 students.
04/2024 – We finally took a group photo in front of the statue.
04/2024 – Kenzie gave a poster presentation for the UW-Madison Day at the Capitol.
04/2024 – Hanyu and Kai gave two poster presentations at the 29th Annual CSWEA Education Seminar.
04/2024 – Group lunch!
03/2024 –New paper: “Understanding Ammonia and Water Transport in Direct Contact Membrane Distillation toward Selective Ammonia Recovery“ has been published in ACS ES&T Engineering.
02/2024 –New paper: “Bioelectrochemically-assisted ammonia recovery from dairy manure” has been published in Water Research.
01/2024 – Mohan joined the Early Career Board of ACS ES&T Engineering.
01/2024 – Mohan joined the editor team of the journal Desalination and Water Treatment.
01/2024 – Zhijie joined our lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
12/2023 – New paper: “Electrochemical ammonia recovery and co-production of chemicals from manure wastewater” has been accepted for publication in Nature Sustainability.
12/2023 – We invited Zoe Zou to give us a presentation on how to improve figures in our group meeting. Thank you so much, Zoe!
11/2023 – Our group visited a manure wastewater treatment plant.
11/2023 – Mohan gave an oral presentation on the Professor Research Event organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Pi Tau Sigma at UW-Madison.
10/2023 – Mohan attended the WISE Faculty Dinner.
09/2023 – Mohan started to serve on the Water@UW-Madison Executive Committee.
08/2023 – Group BBQ~
08/2023 – Kai and Kenzie were selected to receive the Student Research Grants Competition (SRGC) Award ($1500 each). Congrats!
08/2023 – Mohan, Kai, and Kenzie gave three oral presentations at ACS Fall 2023 National Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
07/2023 – Mohan gave an oral presentation in the 10th IWA Membrane Technology Conference at St. Louis, MO.
06/2023 – Congratulations to Ziyan on winning the Anna Grant Birge Award 2023.
06/2023 – Mohan, Kai, Kenzie, and Ziyan attended AEESP and gave two oral presentations and two poster presentations at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. We also visited our collaborator Fikile Brushett’s lab at MIT.
06/2023 – New paper: “Improved Reliability of Raman Spectroscopic Imaging of Low-Micrometer Microplastic Mixtures in Lake Water by Fractionated Membrane Filtration” has been accepted for publication in ACS ES&T Water.
06/2023 – Our group hosted Wisconsin Sea Grant communicators’ team for a lab tour.
05/2023 – New paper: “Solar Enhanced Membrane Distillation for Ammonia Recovery” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Membrane Science Letters.
05/2023 – Sam had a successful thesis defense for his MS. Congrats! He will join George Washington University as a PhD student in Fall 2023.
04/2023 – Our group participated in UW Madison Engineering Expo and talked about “sustainable water and wastewater treatment” to K-12 students.
04/2023 – Ziyan gave a poster presentation for the UW-Madison Day at the Capitol. Check the news: Link
03/2023 – New paper: “Ammonia Recovery from Organic Nitrogen in Synthetic Dairy Manure with a Microbial Fuel Cell” has been accepted for publication in Chemosphere.
03/2023 – Mohan is teaching CIV ENGR 325: Environmental Engineering Materials this semester. Check the news: Link
02/2023 – Our group attend the Midwest Manure Summit.
12/2022 – Hanyu had a successful thesis defense for her MS. Congrats! She joins our group as a PhD student in Spring 2023.
09/2022 – New paper: “Laboratory Filter Membranes May Release Organic Particles that Affect Water Analysis” has been accepted for publication in ACS ES&T Engineering.
08/2022 – Ziyan received the best student speaker award for her presentation at the Environmental Chemistry & Polymer Science symposium at the Fall ACS Meeting in Chicago. Congrats!
06/2022 – Kenzie, Kai, and Ziyan attended the 2022 AEESP conference.
06/2022 – Abigail Monahan, an undergraduate student from Skidmore College, joined Qin Lab for summer research. She is funded by Water@UW-Madison/Fresh Water Collaborative of Wisconsin Undergraduate Research Experience. Welcome, Abigail!
05/2022 – Both Kai and Kenzie received the Becker Travel Supplement from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for their travels to AEESP2022. Congratulations!
05/2022 – Hongang Du, a student from Johns Hopkins University, joined Qin Lab as a research associate. Welcome Hongang!
03/2022 – Sam won the first place in the Global Environmental System Design Challenge by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at Efest 2022. Congratulations!
01/2022 – Hanyu Tang joined Qin Lab as a M.S. student. Welcome!
10/2021 – Sam was appointed as the Vice President of the College of Engineering Safety Committee. Congratulations!
09/2021 – Kenzie gave an oral presentation on 2021 Midwest Women in Science Conference.
09/2021 – Kai presented a poster on Computing In Engineering Forum 2021.
09/2021 – Our lab welcomes two new graduate students, Ziyan Wu and Samarpan Deb Majumder. Welcome!
08/2021 – Kenzie was selected to receive an EREF scholarship. Congrats!
07/2021 – Mohan gave a presentation at the USANC webinar on membrane technologies.
05/2021 – Kai’s first paper has been accepted for publication in Membranes. Congrats!
10/2020 – Kenzie received the Fall CEE Opportunity Award. Congrats!
05/2020 – Sam Lin joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
05/2020 – Leah Chung was selected to receive the WISE Summer Research Award for 2020 and joined our lab to do research. Welcome!
05/2020 – New paper: “Electrochemical-osmotic process for simultaneous recovery of electric energy, water, and metals from wastewater” has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
04/2020 – New paper: “The relative insignificance of advanced materials in enhancing the energy efficiency of desalination technologies” has been accepted for publication in Energy & Environmental Science.
02/2020 – New paper: “Energy Efficiency of Electro-Driven Brackish Water Desalination: Electrodialysis Significantly Outperforms Membrane Capacitive Deionization” has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology.
01/2020 – Kai Yang joined our lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
01/2020 – Mohan Qin joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an assistant professor.