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Jodie Lutkenhaus
Research Grant, Texas A&M University
Exploring How to Extract Lithium and Rare Earth Metals From Water With Shengqian Ma, Welch Chair in Chemistry
His synthetic inorganic and organic materials research group focuses on task-specific design and functionalization of advanced porous materials. A key goal is to engineer the nanospace of advanced porous materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOF), covalent organic framework (COF) and porous organic polymer (POP) for energy, biological and environmental applications.
Jodie Lutkenhaus's Welch Research Funding Supports Her Work With Polymer Batteries
Jodie Lutkenhaus, professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, pursues diverse research interests spanning redox-active polymers, energy storage, polyelectrolytes, nanocomposites, and thin films and coatings, with a focus on developing redox-active polymers for energy storage and smart coatings. Her Welch Foundation funding supports her work with polymer batteries.
2026 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research
The Welch Foundation has awarded the 2026 Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research to Dr. Sheel C. Dodani, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas, for her pioneering contributions to the development of engineered proteins as anion sensors in biology. Congratulations to Dr. Dodani!
Welch Postdoctoral Fellow Kayla Goforth Explores How Animals Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field
Kayla Goforth, a Welch Postdoctoral Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation in the Merlin Lab at Texas A&M University, is helping unravel the mystery of butterfly navigation by probing one of biology’s most elusive senses: magnetoreception, the ability to detect Earth’s magnetic field.
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