Announcements & News
News:
March 2023: Congratulations Charlotte Albunio, awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her work with additive manufacturing of wood species
March 2023: Annirudha Saha and Jimmy Ringsby present their work on porous media combustion at the 2023 US National Combustion meeting
March 2023: Congratulations Jimmy Ringsby for receiving the 2023 US National Combustion Meeting Undergraduate Research award for his work in unsteady operation of porous media burners
January 2023: Congratulations Giancarlo D'Orazio and Charlotte Albunio for receiving 2023 Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Graduate Research Grants. Giancarlo will be investigating advanced carbon dioxide reduction reactors and Charlotte will be investigating additive manufacguring of wildfire-prone tree species
January 2023: Congratulations Calvin Lee for receiving an Engineering Learning Initiative (ELI) award to continue his work in electrochemical CO2 reduction reactors this spring
October 2022: Sobhani Lab awarded NASA Early Stage Innovations award to develop additively manufactured ceramic cooling system for spacecraft 'AdVECT'
October 2022: Sobhani Lab awarded Air Force Research Lab Hub grant to make advanced ceramics for additive manufacturing
August 2022: REU student Zeinab Ismail presents her summer research on 'Printing Functional Gas Diffusion Layers via 3D printers for Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reactors' at the 2022 Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure meeting
July 2022: Sobhani Lab awarded FuzeHub grant in partnership with Lithoz America and Dimensional Energy to make 3D-printed ceramics that can be used in clean energy reactors
May 2022: Congratulations Calvin Lee for receiving an Engineering Learning Initiative (ELI) award to continue his work in "Optimization of Gas Diffusion Layers" this summer
April 2022: Congratulations Grace Falanga, poster session winner at the Cornell Additive Manufacturing Day for her work in "Additive Manufacturing of Non-Oxide Ceramics for SmallSat Thrusters"
March 2022: Giancarlo D'Orazio presents at the 2022 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of The Combustion Institute, "Unsteady operation of functionally graded porous media burners"
January 2022: Congratulations Calvin Lee for receiving an Engineering Learning Initiative (ELI) award to support his work in "Optimization of Gas Diffusion Layers powered by Electrochemical Fuel Cells" this Spring
January 2022: Prof. Sobhani is teaching a new class at Cornell, "Spacecraft Thermal Management" MAE 4950/6950. This course will overview the strategies, technologies and governing scientific principles applied to control and protect spacecraft against extreme heating or cooling.
September 2021: Congratulations Calvin Lee for receiving an Engineering Learning Initiative (ELI) award to support his work in "3D Reconstruction for X-Ray Tomography of Synchrotron Beamline Data" this Fall
July 2021: Congratulations James Ringsby for receiving the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars (RCPRS) award to support his work in "Green Combustion: Feasibility study for enabling realiable energy conversion of biofuels"
June 2021: Giancarlo D'Orazio and Sadeq Saleh present at Interpore 2021: "Additive manufacturing via digital light processing of durable ceramic porous structures for application to combustion systems" and "Controlling gas diffusion layer wettability via additive manufacturing and simulation"
May 2021: Giancarlo D'Orazio presents at the 2021 US National Combustion meeting, "Characterizing Porous Media Combustion with Engineered Lattice Structures"
April 2021: Congratulations Danielle Weisenfeld for receiving an Engineering Learning Initiative (ELI) award to support her work in "Thermal conductivity modulation in ferrofluids" this Summer
April 2021: Congratulations Giancarlo D'Orazio for his appointment as a CNF Fellow to pursue: "Characterization of Additively Manufactured High Aspect Ratio Microchannels via Two-Photon Polymerization"
November 2020: Opening of the Sobhani Lab at Cornell University!