Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications, Critical Materials Recovery, Biopolymers, Structured Ligands, Membrane Electrodialysis, Bipolar Membranes, Mineralogy, Rare Earth Elements, Green Chemistry, Crystallization

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• Extracting Hydrogen and Critical Metals from Nuisance Seaweed | Chemical & Engineering News, March 2025
• https://sciworthy.com/using-seaweed-to-harvest-valuable-metals/

• BS Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1994;
• MS Chemical Engineering Practice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1996;
• PhD Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2000

2025 Dow Particle Processing Award, AIChE PTF Forum