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Trees are a source of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin. A new process for upgrading lignin bio-oil to hydrocarbons could help expand use of the lignin, which is now largely a waste product left over from the productions of cellulose and bioethanol. (Credit: John Toon, Georgia Tech)

A new low-temperature, multi-phase process for upgrading lignin bio-oil to hydrocarbons could help expand use of the lignin, which is now largely a waste product left over from the production of cellulose and bioethanol from trees and other woody…

Georgia Tech researchers studied slingshot spiders in the Amazon rain forest of Peru. Shown are Jaime Navarro, a Peruvian field guide; Johanna Johnson, a Peruvian student and project volunteer; and Symone Alexander, a Georgia Tech postdoctoral researcher. (Credit: Geoff Gallice)

Running into an unseen spiderweb in the woods can be scary enough, but what if you had to worry about a spiderweb – and the spider – being catapulted at you? That’s what happens to insects in the Amazon rain forests of Peru, where a tiny slingshot…

<p>Robin Mauldin, RN, BSN, wears a face shield at Prisma Health Medical Group in Columbia, South Carolina. The shield was produced through a manufacturing effort launched by Georgia Tech and supported by a group of industrial collaborators. (Prisma Health Midlands Foundation)</p>

Personal initiatives by a pediatrician and by researchers to make face shields for medical workers have transformed into an industry collaboration that by June had delivered 1.8 million shields to hospitals and other organizations around the country…

Georgia Tech graduate research assistants Kirstie Thompson and Ronita Mathias with a sample of a new membrane material that could reduce carbon emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. (Credit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech)

New membrane technology developed by a team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, and ExxonMobil could help reduce carbon emissions and energy intensity associated with refining crude oil. Laboratory…

Shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) can force hospitals and other healthcare facilities to reuse PPE that was intended for a single use. Georgia Tech researchers have studied the use of ozone to disinfect the items. (Credit: Getty Images, not for republication)

A new study shows that ozone gas, a highly reactive chemical composed of three oxygen atoms, could provide a safe means for disinfecting certain types of personal protective equipment that are in high demand for shielding healthcare personnel from…

<p>Here, many participants in the effort that re-made hand sanitizer using fuel-grade ethanol on its first day of delivery. The volunteers will donate 7,000 gallons of Han-I-Size White and Gold to hospitals and nursing homes across the country. In front, Dr. Chaouki Abdallah, Executive Vice President for Research, congratulates the group on its success. </p>

So many people Seth Marder spoke to didn’t see the hand sanitizer crisis brewing. The country was going to run dangerously short if someone did not act urgently. The professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology rallied colleagues and partners…

The barrier protection devices can be folded for easy portability and storage at healthcare facilities. (Credit: Georgia Tech)

Medical staff treating patients on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic come face to face daily with the risk of exposure to the virus. Among the riskiest moments are inserting and removing breathing tubes, procedures that create a spray of…

<p>To help meet the need for personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers, Georgia Tech has designed and is producing face shields. Shown is a laser cutting machine used to create frames for the shields.</p>

It’s a race against time that some participants liken to Apollo 13, the stricken NASA spacecraft for which engineers improvised an air purification system from available parts to get three astronauts back from the moon. In this case, however, the…

<p>Treated and untreated pieces of lumber submerged in water. The lumber on the left has been treated using atomic layer deposition. It resists absorbing water even when submerged. On the right is untreated lumber shown for comparison. It readily soaks up water, causing a color change within seconds. (Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech)</p>

Pressure treating – which involves putting lumber inside a pressurized watertight tank and forcing chemicals into the boards – has been used for more than a century to help stave off the fungus that causes wood rot in wet environments. Now…

<p>Carson Meredith, professor and James Harris Faculty Fellow in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is the new executive director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute.(Photo: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech).</p>

The Georgia Institute of Technology has selected Carson Meredith as the new executive director of the Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI). Meredith is a professor and James Harris Faculty Fellow in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and…