• Gautami Newalkar:  “Structure-Activity Relationships in Biomass Chars Formed in An Entrained-Flow Reactor”  (Dr. Pradeep Agrawal)

• Sarah McNew:  “Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Over Ceria-Zirconia Mixed Metal Oxides” (Dr. Carsten Sievers)

• Jie Wu:  “Biorenewable Chitin Reinforced Polyethylene Oxide (PEO) Light Weight Composites” (Dr. Carson Meredith)

• Sudhir Sharma: “High Performance Green Barrier Films From Thermal Treatment of Cellulose Nanofibrils”(Dr. Yulin Deng)

• Wei Mu:  “Mechanism Study of Noble Metal Catalyzed Upgrading of Lignin Derived Pyrolysis Oil”  (Dr. Yulin Deng)

• Xiaodan Zhang:  “Fabrication of Electronic Devices Using Highly Flexible Microfibrillated Cellulose” (Dr. Yulin Deng)
  
  

Two students received financial assistance to attend and to present papers at the September TAPPI PEERS conference in Green Bay: 

• Daniel Lee:   “Adsorption Deinking for Inkjet and Flexographic Ink” (Dr. Jeff Hsieh)

• Tony Du:  “Quantitative Measurement of Microstickies by Model Surfaces” (Dr. Jeff Hsieh)

The proceedings of the AIChE conference can be found at https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2013/webprogram/ataglance.html

The 2013 TAPPI PEERS brochure is at http://www.tappipeers.org/pdf/brochure.pdf