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Deciphering the chemical cocktail of daily life
11+ hour, 54+ min ago (514+ words) Environmental chemist Nina Zhao seeks to understand the chemicals in our lives, and why people respond so differently to the same drug, pesticide, or pollutant. Haoqi (Nina) Zhao joined Stanford in July 2026. Her research uses computational mass spectrometry to investigate…...
A scientist building microscopic cleanup crews for chemicals
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (463+ words) Environmental microbiologist Yaochun Yu studies how microbes break down pesticides, plastic additives, and other chemicals in the environment. His goal is to enable new ways to clean up pollution and design safer chemicals for the future. Yaochun Yu and PhD…...
Harvesting water from air
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (570+ words) Researchers have discovered a way to draw potable water from air almost anywhere using solar power and a gel-like material that lasts for eight months or more. Until now, materials known as hydrogels have degraded too quickly to be practical…...
Hard questions, soft materials
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (525+ words) Carlos Diaz-Marin and his colleagues are engineering inexpensive materials called hydrogels to collect water from the air, capture carbon from the atmosphere, and massively improve heating efficiency, among other sustainability challenges. Carlos Diaz-Marin is assistant professor of energy science and…...