department of chemical and biomolecular engineering

Nov 14, 2024

Creating a New Class of Materials

Simple to produce. Hard to break. Yet stretchable and over 50% liquid. Those are a few of the qualities of a completely new class of materials created by Professor Michael… 

Oct 21, 2024

Finding Could Help Turn Trees Into Affordable, Greener Industrial Chemicals

Trees are the most abundant natural resource living on Earth’s land masses, and North Carolina State University scientists and engineers are making headway in finding ways to use them as sustainable, environmentally benign alternatives to producing industrial chemicals from petroleum. 

Sep 19, 2024

Precision sensors: an innovative future for agriculture

This is an excerpt from an article written by H’Rina DeTroy in University Communications. At the North Carolina Plant Sciences Initiative (N.C. PSI), NC State researchers are advancing sensor technology to… 

Aug 22, 2024

For First Time, DNA Tech Offers Both Data Storage and Computing Functions

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University have demonstrated a technology capable of a suite of data storage and computing functions – repeatedly storing, retrieving, computing, erasing… 

Aug 21, 2024

NC State Partners in New NSF Center Dedicated to Domestic Rubber Production

This article was written by Brent Lancaster for NC State College of Engineering News. Faculty members in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at North Carolina State University are… 

Aug 20, 2024

New Technique Prints Metal Oxide Thin Film Circuits at Room Temperature

The original article was written by Matt Shipman, Research Communications Lead, University Communications. Professor Michael Dickey and his colleagues have demonstrated a technique for printing thin metal oxide films at…