2023

2023-05Madison Morey won the best presentation award for her section of the Battery Student Slam at the 243rd Electrochemical Society Meeting.
2023-01Andrew Cannon's final paper from his Ph.D. dissertation is published, Smoothed particle hydrodynamics modeling of electrodeposition and dendritic growth under migration-and diffusion-controlled mass transport, was published in the Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion adn Storage."

2022

2022-01Prof. Ryan awarded seed funding from the Sloan Foudation for collaborations with Arizona State University on CO2 conversion.
2022-04Sam Brush successfully defended his masters thesis, Characterization of an Activated Aluminum Slurry and Design of an Aluminum Slurry-Fueled Field Cooking System.
2022-06Madison Morey was award an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
2022-06Ziqing (Jack) Zhao was awarded an NSF INTERN Supplemental award for an internship at Argonne National Laboarotory working on electrode degradation in lithium batteries.
2022-04Madison Morey was awarded an NSF INTERN Supplemental award for an internship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working on the effects of surface energy on dendrite formation in lithium batteries.

2021

2021-06Collaborative work with Wayne State University was published in Advanced Energy Materials, Inhibition of Lithium Dendrite Formation in Lithium Metal Batteries via Regulated Cation Transport through Ultrathin Sub-Nanometer Porous Carbon Nanomembranes.
2021-04 Prof. Ryan organized a webinar series through the BU Institute for Global Sustainability, Where is Energy Storage Headed?"

2020

2020-11Prof. Ryan named a Scialog Fellow for Negative Emission Sciences by Research Corporation for Scientific Advancements.
2020-06Prof. Ryan awarded NSF EGAR funding on modeling dendrite growth in batteries.
2020-08Kathleen Dupre successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.
2020-05Prof. Ryan awarded DOE SBIR Phase 2A subcontract on CO2 capture research.

2019

2019-04Erin Arai successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.
2019-04Dr. Ryan and Andrew presented their research on battery cycling and battery separator effects on dendrite growth at ECS in Dallas.

2017

2017-09Dr. Ryan received NSF award for the design of heterogeneous hierarchical porous media.
2017-09Erin received DOE fellowship.
2017-09Andrew Cannon joined CEL.
2017-08Kathy Dupre passed her qualification.
2017-04David Wagner defended his MS thesis and received his MS in Mechanical Engineering.
2017-04Dr. Ryan was named Scialog Fellow for Advanced Energy Storage.
2017-03Dr. Ryan gave a seminar at Tufts University, Mechanical Engineering Department.
2017-02Dr. Ryan gave an invited talk on dendrite growth in lithium batteries at the TMS conference in San Diego, CA.
2017-01Dr. Ryan presented research on caviation in fuel injectors at the Advanced Engine Combustion (AEC) review meeting at Sandia National Laboratory.

2016

2016Dr. Ryan was part of the team awarded R&D 100 Award for CCSI Toolset.
2016-09Kathy Dupre joins the CEL
2016-04William Lane successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis
2016-01David Wagner joins the CEL
2016-01Erin Arai succesfully completed her Ph.D. qualifying exam.
2016-01Dr. Ryan receives DOE award to develop numerical models of bubble cavitation

2015

2015-12Dr. Jinwang Tan successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis
2015-09William Lane received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2015-05Dr. Ryan gave a seminar at Center for Computational Sciences: Using nunmerical methods to engineer the next generation of energy systems
2015-05Professor Ryan receives Hariri Research Award to develop materials informatics approaches to identify novel electrolytes for Lithium batteries
2015-04Professor Ryan receives Dean’s Catalyst Award to investigate novel fabrication methods for high energy density battery cathodes
2015-04Christopher Moulder defended his thesis and received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2015-03William Lane successfully defended his prospectus
2015-02Jinwang Tan successfully defended his prospectus and Sandra Abago passed her qualifying examination
2015-01Tatiana Sokolinski received her M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering

2014

2014-12Dr. Ryan presented on our work on materials informatics and lithium air batteries at the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, MA
2014-11Dr. Ryan awarded contract from PNNL to study carbon capture
2014-11William Lane presented his work on gas-solid heat transfer subgrid models at ASME IMECE in Montreal, Canada
2014-09Dr. Ryan named Hariri Junior Faculty Fellow
2014-09Dr. Ryan and William Lane present their work on carbon capture at the CCSI Industry Advisory Board Meeting
2014-06Sandra Abago and Erin Arai join the CEL
2014-01Dr. Ryan awarded contract from PNNL to study degradation in SOFCs

2013

2013-08Dr. Ryan awarded a Samsung Global Research Outreach grant for the investigation of dendrite growth in lithium batteries
2013-08Dr. Ryan awarded a Young Faculty Travel Grant from the High Temperature Materials Division for travel to the 224th ECS Meeting in San Francisco, CA
2013-07William Lane presented on our work on uncertainty analysis of a bubbling fluidized bed at the ASME Summer Fluids Engineering Conference in Incline Village, NV
2013-07Benjamin Schrage received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2013-05Dr. Ryan presented on our work on validation and uncertainty analysis in fluidized beds at the ASME Validation and Verification Symposium in Las Vegas, NV
2013-05Jinwang Tan recieved a travel award to present a poster on modeling of dendrite growth in Li-air batteries at the spring Electrochemical Society meeting in Toronto, Canada
2013-04Dr. Ryan presented our work on uncertainty analysis of a bubbling fluidized bed for the CCSI

2012

2012-10Dr. Ryan presented on the validation and uncertainty analysis of computational fluid dynamics modeling for the CCSI
2012-07Dr. Ryan presented on computational fluid dynamics modeling of post combustion carbon capture modeling at the ASME Summer Fluids Engineering Conference in Puerto Rico
2012-06Dr. Ryan presented on transport modeling of Li-Air batteries at the Electrochemical Society Meeting in Seattle, WA
2012-06Dr. Ryan presented on validation and uncertainty analysis of post combustion carbon capture systems at the ASME Validation and Verification Symposium in Las Vegas, NV
2012-06Dr. Ryan presented on computational fluid dynamics modeling at the Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration conference in Pittsburgh, PA
2012-06William Lane, Ben Schrage and Jinwang Tan join the CEL
2012-01Dr. Ryan joins the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Boston University