Director

Additional Campus Affiliations

Elio Eliakim Tarika Chair, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Materials Research Lab
Professor, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Long, H., Sit, C. Y., Paliwal, A., Cheng, T., Gupta, J. K., Reynolds, M. A., Son, Y. J., Zhang, K., Gewirth, A. A., & Kenis, P. J. A. (2026). Alkaline ammonia electrolysis in a membrane electrode assembly cell: parameter optimization and dynamic operation. EES Catalysis. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5ey00324e

Shah, V. M., Selyanchyn, R., Sit, C. Y., Fujikawa, S., & Kenis, P. J. A. (2026). Impact of feed composition on performance of PDMS nanomembrane-based multistage CO2 capture. Chemical Engineering Journal, 529, Article 173020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2026.173020

Xu, R. H. J., Huang, C., Keating, L. P., Duan, Y., Shim, M., & Kenis, P. J. A. (2026). General approach for automated purification of quantum dots using size-exclusion chromatography. Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 11(1), 306-316. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5re00302d

Anzai, A., Fukushima, M., Rivera Rocabado, D. S., Ishimoto, T., Sugiyama, T., Ohtani, B., Kobayashi, H., Liu, M. H., Donoshita, M., Noguchi, T. G., Maurya, S. K., Kato, K., Sit, C. Y., Kenis, P. J. A., & Yamauchi, M. (2025). Enhanced Hydrogen Supply to Atomically Dispersed Copper Sites through Close Cooperation with Oxygen Vacancies in Black TiO2 to Promote CH4 Production in CO2 Electrolysis. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 17(15), 22665-22676. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5c00484

Fan, T., Shen, S., Sit, C. Y., Kenis, P. J. A., & Chapman, A. (2025). Environmental, economic and social trade-offs of membrane-based direct air capture technologies integrated with CO2 conversion using life cycle assessment. Journal of CO2 Utilization, 91, Article 103002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2024.103002

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