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John G. Searle Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University
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Abstract deadline for Diffusion Fundamentals XI "Spreading in Nature, Society and Technology" is this Friday, February 28! Come join us on the shores of Lake Michigan for 3 days of interdisciplinary talks and posters on all things diffusion. diffusionfundamentals11.org

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Nice new work from Thang Pham, expanding our understanding of genetic algorithms to optimize MOFs for CO2 capture.

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Abstract deadline for Diffusion Fundamentals XI extended to February 28! Come hear invited talks by Alberto Striolo and Eric Vanden-Eijnden (among others). diffusionfundamentals11.org

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Nice new work from Courtney Smoljan, Filip Formalik, Omar Farha, and team. Wasn't sure if journal would let us use this title!

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Looking forward to these health-related talks at the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference this summer: Dirk Brockmann on spatial dynamics and the Covid-19 pandemic and Sabina Hrabetova on using diffusion to study the brain’s extracellular space. Abstracts due Feb 15! diffusionfundamentals11.org

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It was fun thinking about opportunities ahead for the field of chemical engineering for the first anniversary issue of @natchemeng.bsky.social rdcu.be/d7O59

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Happy to announce that Dorit Brixius (@tudresden.bsky.social) will give a Keynote at the Diffusion Fundamentals conference on "The Danger of Diffusion Models in the History of Global Science." Conference is June 30 - July 2. Join us! Abstracts due February 15. diffusionfundamentals11.org

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Very happy to have Stefano Brandani as a Keynote Lecturer at the Diffusion Fundamentals XI conference. He'll speak on "The Ruthven number: An essential quantity in determining diffusion coefficients in nanoporous materials using uptake experiments." Abstracts due Feb 15. diffusionfundamentals11.org

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I have a visitor outside my office window!

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Abstract submission is now open for the Diffusion Fundamentals XI Conference "Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society." diffusionfundamentals11.org Please submit your one-page abstract for an oral or poster presentation as a pdf by February 15: bit.ly/40dtkr1

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Carbon capture on the front page of @nytimes.com today. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/c...

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In this new paper in ACS Catalysis, XijunWang, @kaihangs.bsky.social, and Anyang Peng tackle some of the challenges in modeling supported amorphous metal oxide nanoclusters for methane activation. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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As my first post on @bsky.app, I'm happy to announce the publication of a paper describing the new (very fast!) GPU version of our RASPA simulation code, gRASPA. Congratulations to Zhao Li and the team!

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