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Success in science communication: the Research SLAM

This fall I had the honor of participating in the Research SLAM competition for postdocs. The SLAM challenges contestants to present a …

Revisiting Jay Whitacre's Innovation Story

Earlier today energy storage startup Aquion Energy announced that the cost of its breakthrough saltwater battery technology should fall …

Blue Energy research in the news

In the last few weeks my group’s research on salinity gradient a.k.a. “blue” energy has generated some press. …

How to calculate salt activity

My work in membrane processes for desalination and blue energy often requires me to calculate the thermodynamic properties of salts. …

The untapped source of clean energy you’ve never heard of

Blue Energy makes electricity from saltwater Emerging “blue energy” technologies are on the verge of unlocking a new way to generate …

pyEQL updated to v0.4

Earlier this week I released pyEQL v0.4. pyEQL is a side project of mine that aims to create a robust Python library for solution …

Announcing pyEQL – a Python library for solution chemistry

I’m pleased to announce that with the recent v0.3 release, one of my side projects - pyEQL - has matured enough that I think …