Updates from our lab

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New paper in collaboration with Dr. Whitehead

We explored the effect of various treatments to remove metals from rendered fat, leading to significant improvements in the value of the material collected and enabling their use for the production of biodiesel (while solving a waste management problem).

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Congrats to Armelle!

Armelle just received an award for Best Oral Presentation in Computer Science at the South Carolina Junior Academy of Science (Charleston, SC – 03/2023)!

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Paper describing the use of alginate-NADES as new biosensors has been published in the J. Molecular Liquids. Thanks to a great team for making it possible!

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Lucas’ paper accepted in Nature’s Scientific Reports

Aiming to streamline the synthesis of new NADES, we propose the use of a transformer-based machine learning approach. This strategy has the potential to impact several industries and promote use of deep eutectic mixtures to replace traditional solvents.    

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GSSM students presented posters at SERMACS 2022

GSSM students presented posters at SERMACS 2022 Congratulations to Armelle Varillas and Aubree Miller, who participated in our REU program this summer presented posters at the conference in Puerto Rico! Participation of these students in the program was possible due to the support from NSF – Division of Chemistry, award CHE-2227374 (2022).      …

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Lucas’ contributions featured by the College of Science

Lucas Ayres, a Ph.D. student in Garcia’s lab, used a natural polymer to coat electrodes (making them flexible enough to withstand bending) and added a thin layer of gold (to improve the electron transfer process). In collaboration with Kristi Whitehead, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences, they developed a device that can…