Group Events
Taking a rest at the top after the climb
Playing games after the hike
Picnic-ing after the hike
We loved the food here and played White Elephant after eating.
We loved Boston!
We all planned to wear Halloween costumes, but Woo Jin and Ryan were the only two to dress up :)
MinGyu was the grill master
Guess who fell off the raft…
September 2025, Congrats to Dr. Lively on being named a national finalist for the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists! Read more here.
August 2025, Young Joo’s work on microporous polymer membranes for OSRO has been selected as an Editor’s Choice Article in Journal of Membrane Science – read it here!
July 2025, A new direct air capture concept from our group has just been published in Energy & Environmental Science! Read the news article here and the full publication here.
June 2025, Congrats to Mingyu Song for winning the 2025 AIChE Graduate Student Research Award in Adsorption & Ion Exchange!
June 2025, Younhwa and Mario have joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher and a PhD student - welcome aboard!
March 2025, Seo-Yul’s publication is featured on the front cover of Advanced Functional Materials! Read the article here.
January 2025, Yi's work on fluorine-rich membranes for hydrocarbon separations is now published in Science – take a look here!
October 2024, Congrats to Lucinda Nugent for winning 1st place in the Environmental Division of the undergraduate poster competition at AIChE 2024!
October 2024, Congrats to Akriti on receiving the AIChE Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Travel Award!
October 2024, Vanessa and Trisha have joined the group as new PhD students - welcome aboard!
September 2024, Seo-Yul's paper on 3D printed DAC contactors was just published in Advanced Functional Materials - check it out here!
May 2024, Dr. Lively gave the Stratis V. Sotirchos Lecture at the Pan-Hellenic Scientific Conference in Chemical Engineering in Thessaloniki, Greece.
April 2024, Congrats to undergraduate researcher Shreya Ghosh for winning the Outstanding Senior Award!
March 2024, Gaurav Iyer (UMD) has joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher - welcome!
March 2024, Hannah’s paper on water management and heat integration in DAC systems has been published in Nature Chemical Engineering. You can read the article here.
February 2024, Pavithra’s paper on alumina incorporation in self-supported PEI sorbents was selected for ACS Editors’ Choice. Congrats, Pavithra! Check out the article here.
January 2024, Congrats to Lu for winning first place in a poster session at the Chemical Separations GRC 2024!
January 2024, Bota has been awarded a 2024 Novelis Graduate Scholarship. Congratulations!
November 2023, Shreya Ghosh won first place in the Separations Division of the undergraduate poster competition at AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando. Bravo, Shreya!
October 2023, Ronita and Youngjoo recently published articles in Nature Materials and Nature Communications, respectively - read about it here.
September 2023, The Lively Lab has grown! Ayush, Ji Eun, Haoyu, Quinn, and Cyril have all recently joined the group!
June 2023, A publication led by Won Hee Lee was featured on the front cover of Joule and in a GT College of Engineering news article. Read the Joule article here.
June 2023, Haley’s “sorp-vection” paper on rigid, carbon membranes that enable permeation and concentration of organics from water is now published in PNAS. Check out the PNAS article here and the news here.
May 2023, Inyoung Jang (HYU) has joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher - welcome aboard!
May 2023, Hammed, Woo Jin, and Lu have now successfully passed their PhD proposal defenses. Congrats!
May 2023, Congrats to Youngjoo Lee for being selected for a 2023 NAMS Student Fellowship!
April 2023, Congrats to undergraduate researcher Kartik Saigal for winning the Chair’s Award for Outstanding ChBE Senior!
March 2023, Check out the newly published paper in JACS from Guanhe, MinGyu, and Yuxiang on how amine-support interactions affect direct air capture of CO2. Read it here.
March 2023, Pavithra’s paper on self-supported branched PEI scaffolds was published in Energy Fuels. Read it here.
January 2023, Poori and Prof. Lively were featured in an article on Direct Air Capture (DAC) research at Georgia Tech. Read more here.
January 2023, Check out Fengyi’s work on submillimeter bundled microtubular flow battery cells here.
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