2022 Lab Announcements

November 2022, Kartik Saigal placed first in the Separations Division undergraduate poster competition at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix. Fantastic job, Kartik!

October 2022, Dr. Lively was awarded a Thomas C. DeLoach Jr. Endowed Term Professorship and named an Industrial & Chemical Engineering Fellow for the class of 2023. Congratulations!

October 2022, Rebecca and Botagoz have joined the group as new PhD students - welcome aboard!

September 2022, Akriti’s work on increasing carbon dioxide reduction reaction efficiency through strategic use of downstream separations and recycling of unreacted carbon dioxide is now published in Sustainable Energy & Fuels - check it out here.

August 2022, MinGyu published a paper on cold-temperature carbon dioxide capture with water co-production from air using commercial zeolites - check it out here.

May 2022, Congratulations to Pavithra for winning the 1st place poster prize at FOA14!

May 2022, Dr. Lively was elected president of the North American Membrane Society. Congrats!

April 2022, Young Hee’s paper on the co-transport of water and p-xylene through CMS membranes was selected for JMS March 2022 Editors’ Choice. Congrats, Young Hee! Check out the article here.

April 2022, Congrats to our undergraduate researchers for their accomplishments at the 2022 AIChE Southern Student Regional Conference! Kartik Saigal placed second in the Student Technical Presentation, and Ji Eun Lim won the Jeopardy Competition as team captain.

April 2022, Hammed, Woo Jin, and Akriti were recognized for exemplary academic achievement, and Hannah was selected for the Outstanding PhD Proposal award. Congrats!

April 2022, Congrats to Dr. Jang, Dr. Rivera, and Dr. Roos for successfully defending their Ph.D. theses!

March 2022, Check out our new OSRO Upper Bound resource here.

February 2022, Isaiah Borne has been awarded the Spring 2022 William Randolph Hearst Fellowship. Congratulations!

February 2022, Yi Ren has been awarded the 2022 Rohm & Haas Fellowship. Congrats, Yi!

February 2022, João Marreiros (KU Leuven) has joined the group as a post-doctoral researcher - welcome!

February 2022, Dr. Lively has been selected to receive the 2022 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the American Society of Engineering Education. Congratulations!

2021 Lab Announcements

November 2021, Anthony Vallace (VU) and Seo-Yul Kim (YSU) have joined the group as post-doctoral researchers - welcome aboard!

September 2021, The Lively Lab has grown! Hammed, Lu, Maddie, and Woo Jin have joined the group as new PhD students.

August 2021, Dr. Lively just published an article on a thought experiment involving renewable electricity and transportation, check it out here

August 2021, Matt just published an article on OSRO using MMCMs, check it out here

June 2021, Won Hee Lee (HYU) and Yuxiang Wang (NUS) have joined the group as post-doctoral researchers - welcome aboard!

June 2021, Yi just published an article on VPI reaction modeling in ACS Chem Materials, check it out here

May 2021, Akriti has successfully passed the qualifying exam. Congrats!

May 2021, Hannah just published an article on BECCS metrics in JACS Au, check it out here

Apr 2021, Isaiah recently won the Georgia Tech ChBE Outstanding PhD Proposal award. Congratulations!

Mar 2021, Dr. Lively has been awarded the Georgia Tech Outstanding Achievement in Early Career Research Award! Congratulations!

Mar 2021, Chunyi recently won the DAAD Fellowship, which provides her funds to research in Germany! Congratulations!

Mar 2021, Hannah has been awarded a 2021 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations!

Feb 2021, Isaiah recently won the Provost’s Award in the 2021 CRIDC poster competition! Congrats!

Feb 2021, The Lively group has grown! Dr. Guanhe Rim has joined the group!

Feb 2021, Haley was selected as Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant for the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering - Congrats!

Jan 2021, Mingyu Song has successfully passed the qualifying exam. Congrats!

2020 Lab Announcements

Oct 2020, Haley, Isaiah, Chunyi, Young Hee, and Pavithra, have now successfully passed their PhD proposal defenses. Congrats!

Sep 2020, Haley has been awarded the American Membrane Technology Association’s Reclamation Fellowship for Membrane Technology. Congrats!

Aug 2020, The Lively Lab has grown! Drs. Wulin Qiu, Yang Liu, Kamath Manjeshwar, and Frank Kong have recently joined the team, as has our newest student, Fidel Amezcua. Welcome aboard!

Jul 2020, Kirstie and Ronita just published an article in Science! Read it here.

Jul 2020, Dr. Lively has been honored with the AIChE Allan P. Colburn Award. Read about it here. Congrats!

Feb 2020, Ronita recently won Executive Vice President for Research Award in the 2020 CRIDC poster competition and received 2nd place for oral presentations in the 2020 ChBE Graduate Research Symposium! Congrats! 

Jan 2020, Hannah won the Best Qualifying Exam Award! Congrats!

Jan 2020, All first-years, Hannah Holmes, Yacine Feliachi, Youngjoo Lee, and Yi Ren, have successfully passed the quals! Congrats!

Jan 2020, The Lively Lab has grown! Haley White has joined the group!

2019 Lab Announcements

Nov 2019, Hye Youn just published an article focusing on the development of defect‐free polymeric hollow fiber membranes as a robust platform for organic solvent reverse osmosis. This article was selected as a cover paper for the "Future" issue of AIChE Journal, which invites early career researchers to contribute their pioneering works. Check it out here.

Sep 2019, The Lively Lab has grown! Hannah Holmes, Yacine Feliachi, Youngjoo Lee, and Yi Ren have all recently joined the group!

Aug 2019, Yao has won the 2019 AIChE Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award, which she will receive at the Separations Division’s Awards Banquet on November 11 at the Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Congrats!

Jul 2019, Yao has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Eastman Graduate Fellowship in Chemical Engineering. This fellowship of $10,000 will provide Yao with an additional $5000 in stipend and $5000 in resources for materials and travel. Congrats!

Jul 2019, Fengyi just published an article in Chemistry of Materials. The article developed a metal oxide-infused membrane, which could offer a low-energy alternative for chemical separations. -- Check it out here.

Jun 2019, Yao just published an article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, which has been selected as a VIP (very important paper) and cover paper. The article focuses on the development of carbon molecular sieve membrane with mid-range micropores for xylene isomer separation. Check it out here.

Apr 2019, Isaiah has been awarded a 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship -- Congrats! See the story here.

Feb 2019, Yao has been selected as one of the three recipients for the 2019 NAMS Student Fellowship -- congrats! In addition to a $500 prize, she will present her research at the 2019 NAMS in Pittsburgh in a special award session.

Jan 2019, Guanghui just published an article in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The article focuses on a new type of membrane known as a "molecularly-mixed composite membrane". Check it out here.

Jan 2019, Chunyi, Isaiah, Pavithra, and Young Hee all passed their PhD qualifying exams! Congrats!

2018 Lab Announcements

Oct 2018, Fengyi has won the 2018 Ziegler Award for Best Paper -- Congrats! See the picture, here!

Oct 2018, The Lively Lab has grown! Chunyi, Dan, Isaiah, Pavithra, and Young Hee have all recently joined the group!

July 2018, Yao just published her paper, which focused on xylene isomer separation in CMS materials. Check it out here!

June 2018, Dr. Brian Pimentel (Lively Lab alum) collaborated and co-authored a new paper in Angewandte Chemie! Check it out here.

June 2018, Dr. Lively has received the 2018 DOE Early Career Award! Check out the story here.

May 2018, Fengyi has just published his first paper, which focused on 3D printing PIM-1! Check it out here! 

May 2018,Leo just published a new article on biochemical separations using MOF adsorbents! Check it out here!

May 2018, Congratulations to Dr. Pimentel -- the second PhD student from The Lively Lab and one of the founding members! See the picture here!

Apr 2018, The Lively Lab has grown! Dr. Yun-Ho Ahn has joined as the group's newest post-doctoral researcher.

Mar 2018, Guanghui has won the UNCAGE-ME EFRC "Best Paper Award" for 2017-2018. You can find the paper here

2017 Lab Announcements

Dec 2017, The Lively Lab has its first PhD alumna! Congratulations, Dr. Melinda Jue! Picture

Dec 2017, Dr. Lively has been named an "Up-and-Coming Researcher by Chemistry of Materials. He and Dr. Jue have recently published a perspective on using microporous materials for organic solvent separations. Read about it

Oct 2017, Conrad Roos and Matt Rivera have joined the group as first year graduate students. Welcome aboard!

Aug 2017, Dong-Yeun, Erkang, Melinda, and Yao all delivered talks at ICOM 2017. See the picture here.

July 2017, Dong-Yeun Koh has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST.  Congratulations, Dong-Yeun! We wish you all the best."

May 2017, Brian's paper has been selected as a highlight on the cover of Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. Congrats! See the cover here.

Apr 2017, Dr. Lively was named to Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research's "2017 Class of Influential Researchers. Read the paper here.

Mar 2017, Dr. Lively and Dr. Sholl just published a commentary in Nature Materials. Check it out here.

Feb 2017, Dr. Lively has won a 2017 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation. Read more!

Feb 2017, Melinda just published a paper on PIM-1 hollow fiber spinning in Journal of Membrane Science. Check it out here.

Feb 2017, Dr. Lively has been selected to receive the 2017 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award from the 3M Corporation! Congrats!

2016 Lab Announcement

Nov 2016, Brian's first paper has been published in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. Check it out here.

Oct 2016, The Lively Lab has grown! Hye Youn Jang is the group's newest graduate student.

Sep 2016, Simon just published an article in Chemistry of Materials! Check it out here.

Aug 2016, Dong-Yeun just published an article in Science! Check it out here.

Aug 2016, The Lively Lab is hosting Prof. Eric Favre, a visiting scholar from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC).

July 2016, The Lively Lab is hosting Yun-Ho Ahn, a visiting student from KAIST.

Jun 2016, Guanghui's first paper has been published in Chem. Eur. J.  Check it out here.

Apr 2016, The Lively Lab has grown! Tianmiao Lai is the group's newest post-doc.

Apr 2016, Dr. Sholl and Dr. Lively just published a short commentary article in Nature regarding the world-wide importance of chemical separations. Check it out here.

Apr 2016, Dr. Lively and Dr. Realff just published a new article in AIChE. Check it out here.

Apr 2016, Melinda participated in the 2016 Excellence in Polymer Graduate Research Symposium at the 2016 Spring ACS Meeting.

Mar 2016, David Umo has won the Presidential Undergraduate Research Award for 2016! Congrats!

Mar 2016, Dr. Lively has won the 2016 CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award!

Feb 2016, The Lively Lab has grown! Eric Moschetta is the newest post-doc in the Lively Lab

Jan 2016, The Lively Lab has grown! Richelle Lyndon is the newest post-doc in the Lively Lab

2015 Lab Announcements

Dec 2015, Simon's research was just published in ACS Macro Letters! [read]

Oct 2015, The Lively Lab has received two DOE grants focusing on rapid pressure swing adsorption separations. Story.

Oct 2015, The Lively Lab has grown! Stephen DeWitt, Yao Ma, Fengyi Zhang and Leo Chiang are the newest graduate students to join the team

Oct 2015, Dr. Lively gave the departmental seminar at the University of Florida's Chemical Engineering Department.

Aug 2015, Dr. Lively gave an invited talk at the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on Nanoporous Materials & Their Applications

Aug 2015, Melinda's first article on her research has been published in Macromolecules [read]

Aug 2015, Melinda successfully passed her Ph.D proposal--congrats!

July 2015, Brian successfully passed his Ph.D proposal--congrats!

June 2015, Melinda gave a presentation titled "Sorption and diffusion of organic vapors into PIM-1 and the effects of methanol conditioning" at the 2015 Meeting of the North American Membrane Society

May 2015, Dr. Lively presented a seminar at Zhejiang University titled "Enabling scalable & energy efficient molecular separations via hollow fiber spinning of advanced materials"

May 2015, Eunsun Choi has received a PURA award for her summer research. Congrats!

May 2015, Dr. Koh and Dr. Lively contributed to the "News & Views" in the May 2015 issue of Nature Nanotechnology [read]

Feb 2015, Dr. Lively is giving an invited talk at the KAUST Reseach Conference "Recent Developments in Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials for Energy, Environmental and Water Applications" on Feb. 23 2015

Jan 2015, The Lively Lab has grown! Atombo, Eunsun, Anna and Nick are the group's newest undergraduate researchers

2014 Lab announcement

Dec 2014, The Lively Lab has grown! Simon Pang is the newest post-doc in the Lively Lab and the Jones Group 

Oct 2014, Brian & Erkang have published their first paper in ChemSusChem! Congratulations! 

Sep 2014, Dr. Lively has been awarded an ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator grant 

Sep 2014, The Lively Lab has grown! Guanghui Zhu & Juan Hazbon are the group's newest grad students

Aug 2014, Congrats to Melinda Jue on her first lead author paper, just published in Reactive and Functional Polymers!

Aug 2014, The Koros Research Group and the Lively Lab are hosting Jie Li, a visiting student from Beijing University of Technology

June 2014, Jack & Kristin both were awarded PURA reserach grants. Congrats!

June 2014, Construction has officially started on the lab.  Check out the research:facilities page for an update.

May 2014, The Lively Lab has grown! Dong-Yeun Koh is the newest post-doc in the Lively Lab 

Jan 2014, Congrats to Brian, Erkang and Melinda for passing their quals!