Oct. 2025: Houqian's paper on upcycling waste plastics to biodegradable surfactants was published in Angewandte Chemie!
Sep. 2025: Houqian is awarded the EPSCoR Research Fellow, NSF-NASA to support our research on critical elements recovery.
Aug. 2025: We welcome Lakma Abeyratne as a new postdoctoral researcher in our group!
Jul. 2025: Houqian is appointed to serve as secretary of the Rocky Mountain Catalysis Society.
Jan. 2025: We welcome Mohammad Al-Aqtash, Joel Olivas, and Bianca Perez as undergraduate researchers in our group!
Feb. 2024: Houqian is awarded the ACS Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant for research and teaching focused on plastic upcycling.