School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at OU

Omotoso, T. O., Herrera, Leidy, V, Vann, T., Briggs, N. M., Gomez, L. A., Barrett, L., Jones, D., Tram Pham, Wang, B., Crossley, S. (2019). Stabilization of furanics to cyclic ketone building blocks in the vapor phase. APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL, 254, 491-499. 10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.04.079. (Published) Gorte, R. J., Crossley, S. (2019). A perspective on catalysis in solid acids. Journal of Catalysis, 375, 524-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcat.2019.07.015. (Published) Bye, K. P., Loianno, V., Pham, T., Liu, R., Riffle, J., Galizia, M. (2019). Pure and mixed fluid sorption and transport in Celazole polybenzimidazole: effect of plasticization. Journal of membrane science, 580, 235-247. (Published) Loianno, V., Zhang, Q., Luo, S., Guo, R., Galizia, M. (2019). Modeling gas and vapor sorption and swelling in a triptycene-based polybenzoxazole: evidence for entropy-driven sorption. Macromolecules(52), 4385-4395. 100E. Boyd Street (Published) Loianno, V., Luo, S., Zhang, Q., G

The Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society honored Dr. Edgar O’Rear III at a dinner and induction ceremony, November 4, 2019, at the Nigh Center on the University of Central Oklahoma campus in Edmond.  He was selected along with seven other leaders with distinguished careers in teaching, research, medicine, government, economic development, and public service for its 2019 Hall of Fame honors.  A native of Jasper, Alabama, Edgar O’Rear received degrees from M.I.T. and Rice University in chemistry and chemical (biomedical) engineering before joining the faculty of the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at The University of Oklahoma. Dr. O’Rear has demonstrated excellence in four of the six areas required to be considered for the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. Dr. O’ Rear has held a number of administrative positions during his career including Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program, and Chair of the OU Faculty

OU CBME Assistant Professor Bin Wang, is the recipient of a five-year, $750,869 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science as part of the DOE Early Career Research Program. The DOE selected Dr. Wang, an early career researcher in the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering (CBME), for the award based on his work on computational modeling of complex chemical systems to understand the basic science behind and enable chemical and energy transformation with high efficiency and selectivity. In the chemical industry, controlling selectivity of a chemical conversion process is important because the presence of multiple products may complicate the separation process, leading to intensive energy cost. Dissipation of energy drives chemical transformation in a catalytic process, such as ammonia synthesis. In most cases, however, it is challenging to control the flow of thermal energy into a specific location, such as a chemical bond for its reaction. “The DOE