Day: August 20, 2012

Yun Hang Hu Nominated for World Technology Award

Yun Hang Hu
Yun Hang Hu

Professor Hun Hang Hu has been nominated for a World Technology Award. The awards “recognize and honor the world’s key visionaries, creators, and thinkers from all across the spectrum of science, technology and related fields” and pay tribute to “innovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance” in their respective field.

Read more at Tech Today.

Yun Hang Hu and Yan Hao’s Most-Read Article

Hu Fast Exothermic
Fast and Exothermic Reaction

A paper by Hu and graduate student Yan Huo was among the most-read articles in the Journal of Physical Chemistry during the second quarter of 2012. “Fast and Exothermic Reaction of CO2 and Li3N into C–N-Containing Solid Materials” showed that carbon nitride could be made in an exothermic reaction of carbon dioxide and a lithium compound.

From Lemons to Lemonade: Reaction Uses Carbon Dioxide to Make Carbon-Based Semiconductor

A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful. And, by the way, it releases energy.

Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Marcia Goodrich.