May 2025

Hongang Du wins the WSE Doctoral Leadership Award and Billy Zhu wins the WSE Master Thesis Award! Congratulations!

May 2025

New grant! Ruggero won the FFAR New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award. This grant will support Billy Zhu in his endeavors to accelerate bioelectrochemical fertilizer production.

May 2025

New paper led by Nakyeong Yun on CO₂ capture and sequestration in water reclamation facilities:

Exploring the Use of Treated Water in Water Reclamation Facilities for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration

Jan. 2025

Kai Yang has joined the group as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Welcome Kai!

Dec. 2025

Two new papers in collaboration with Dr. Moon Son at KAIST on AI for desalination.

Autonomous water quality management in an electrochemical desalination process

Reinforcement Learning and Machine Learning Controllers for Enhancing Water Quality and Process Efficiency in Electrochemical Desalination

Dec. 2024

New paper by Danbee on flow field design for MECs. This work was sponsored by the DOE in collaboration with Katherine Chou at NREL.

Flow field design for zero-gap microbial electrolysis cells using synthetic and real wastewater

Nov. 2024

New grant! We will work with a big team comprising UMD, Harvard, UD, GWU, UMBC, OSU, Battelle and Yokogawa on a DARPA project, installing MFCs in the ocean to power remote oceanographic devices.

May 2024

New grant! The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund will support our work on electrochemical methane and carbon dioxide utilization.

Feb. 2024

Danbee Kim has joined the group as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Welcome Danbee!

Oct. 2023

New grant! DOE will sponsor our work in collaboration with Dr. Logan at Penn State, Dr. Chou at NREL and Sentry to produce hydrogen gas from lignocellulosic biomass fermentation effluent.

Oct. 2023

Daniel Alejandro Moreno Jimenez has joined the group as a Postdoctoral Scholar. Welcome!

July 2023

Junhan Li and Zezhen Hao have joined the lab as Research Assistants. Welcome!

Jul. 2023

New grant! NSF will sponsor our work in collaboration with Dr. Betenbaugh in the ChemBE Department to develop a decentralized ammonia infrastructure.

May 2023

Nakyeong Yun and Hongang Du have joined the team as Ph.D. candidates. Welcome!

Feb. 2023

Kevin Sommer, an undergraduate student, has joined to help Professor Rossi set up his laboratory and website. Welcome!

Feb. 2023

Ruggero moved from Penn State to Johns Hopkins to start his own lab in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.