{"676790":{"#nid":"676790","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Professor Krista Walton Wins 2024 AIChE Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Krista Walton\u0026nbsp;was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/walton.chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWalton\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech\u2019s associate vice president for Research Operations and Infrastructure and the Robert \u0022Bud\u0022 Moeller Faculty Fellow in Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE), will receive the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aiche.org\/community\/awards\/institute-award-excellence-industrial-gases-technology\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eaward\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E at the AIChE meeting in San Diego, California, this October.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWalton focuses her research on the synthesis, characterization, and scale-up of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and other porous materials for adsorption-based gas separations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStarting more than a decade ago, Walton became one of the few researchers in the world to focus on understanding the chemical stability of MOFs and has gained an international reputation for her work by helping shape the landscape of MOF applications in separations. She has published more than 135 peer-reviewed articles,\u0026nbsp;including a seminal review on the water stability of MOFs in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/professor-krista-walton-wins-2024-aiche-award-excellence-industrial-gases-technology\u0022\u003ERead Full Story on ChBE Newspage\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Krista Walton\u0026nbsp;was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Krista Walton was selected as the recipient of the 2024 Institute Award for Excellence in Industrial Gases Technology from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2024-09-13 14:15:00","changed_gmt":"2024-09-13 14:15:00","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/professor-krista-walton-wins-2024-aiche-award-excellence-industrial-gases-technology","title":"Read Full Story on ChBE Newspage"}],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"},{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"},{"id":"188020","name":"go-rbi"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}