Eight teams of researchers, one of which includes Haotian Wang, the William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair in chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE) at Rice, will share $1.2 million from the Scialog: Negative Emissions Science initiative to study CO2 conversion.
The initiative is sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with support from the Climate Pathfinders Foundation. Wang’s project is titled “CO2 Conversion to Bioplastics via Electrochemical-Bio Synthesis.”
His collaborators are Andrea Hicks, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Chong Liu, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Their portion of the funding is $165,000.
Wang, who holds joint positions in materials science and nanoengineering, and chemistry, joined the Rice faculty in 2019. He earned his Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 2016 and worked as a Rowland Fellow at Harvard University.
His research focuses on renewable energy technologies, including electrocatalysts for energy storage, sustainable chemical synthesis and water treatment.
Scialog is short for “science + dialog.” Created in 2010 by RCSA, it supports interdisciplinary research focused on concerns of global significance.
Wang among Scialog: Negative Emissions Science teams awarded $1.2 million
Rice researcher's project is titled 'CO2 Conversion to Bioplastics via Electrochemical-Bio Synthesis.'
