TURI Research Fellow Award

Prof. Zhiyong Gu Receives TURI Sustainability Research Grant

Prof. Zhiyong Gu, a UML Chemical Engineering faculty member, has received the 2007 Sustainability Research Fellows Award from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI).  Dr. Gu now joins past recipients of the TURI Sustainability Grant such as Dr. John Walkinshaw, a fellow faculty member, who received the 1998-1999 Fellowship to develop an "Ultrasonic-Assisted De-Inking System for Mixed Office Waste Paper" for TURI.   Other notable faculty members and past recipients of the award are Dr. Francis

Bonner and Dr. Alfred Donatelli, who received the 1999-2001 Fellowship and collaborated to study "Diffusion Dialysis and Acid Recovery in Metal Working and Finishing".

Dr. Gu will use the Fellowship to support his current "investigation, development, and evaluation" of novel and nano technologies that fit TURI's mission for an alternative and environmental friendly soldering process. Simply, this grant will help Dr. Gu synthesize and fabricate nano lead-free solders for TURI. 

With abundance of nanowires, TURI hopes that lead-ladden solders will be a thing of the past, thus, helping to create and promote an "economically sound" technology and "clean environment" for mankind.

Fan Gao and Subhadeep Mukherjee are graduate students in the GU Research Group who would assist in evaluating the new strategy for "fabricating and assembling one of the most promising nanobuilding blocks - nanowires..."   Their main focus will be to optimize the new technique for utilizing nanoscale solder to bond nanowires. 

You can contact Pam Civie at pcivie@turi.org, 978-934-3142, for more information about the Sustainability Research Fellows Program, Projects, and Grants that are available at TURI.