Heap Leach Innovation Initiative

Using supramolecular chemistry to solve medical and environmental problems

The Pierre Research Lab employs coordination and supramolecular chemistry to solve medical and environmental problems.

From Waste to Resources: The Future of Critical Materials

Professor Xinbo Yang’s research centers on extractive metallurgy, with a focus on developing sustainable technologies for the recovery of critical resources. Her group works on innovative processes and functional materials to extract rare earth elements, battery metals, and other critical resources from waste and recycled products such as spent batteries and electronic waste.

Temporal Dynamics of Non-structural Carbohydrates (NSCs)

Non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) are primary metabolites produced during photosynthesis that play crucial roles in plant function.

Selective enrichment of PFAS over hydrocarbon surfactant using electrochemical aerosol formation through oil barrier

This research stream will focus on the trace-level (parts per trillion) analysis and degradation of emerging water pollutants, specifically per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in drinking water.

Self-Driving Chemistry Laboratories: Chemical Discoveries Powered by Robotics

This SRI stream introduces students to the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and automation. Students will use state-of-the-art robotic platforms to rapidly fabricate thin films of organic and hybrid semiconductor materials and characterize their optical, electrical, and structural properties.

The Beaver Stream: How beavers impact the water cycle in the Wasatch Mountains

Beavers are the ultimate engineers of their environments, and one key environmental service these engineers provide is the storage of water in their ponds.

Breaking and Making Bonds

Our group is focused on measuring thermodynamic information although we obtain kinetic and often dynamic information about chemical reactions as well. Using an instrument called a guided ion beam tandem mass spectrometer (GIBMS)/we examine how reactions of cations and molecules change as a function of the available kinetic (sometimes electronic) energy.

Public Health Vector Biology, Ecology, and Management

Research in mosquito control is whimsical and complex, spanning topics in community ecology, population genetics, pathology, epidemiology, and fundamental principles like mosquito behavior.