Engineering for Environmental and Energy Applications

UVA-Led Team Amps Up Battery Technology to Deliver Big Punch from Smaller Package

Flow batteries have many advantages over lithium-ion systems for renewable energy storage — but they take up a lot of space.

UVA Engineering professor Venkataraman Lakshmi has spent considerable years seeking to understand the vadose zone, the section of Earth that anchors the systems of human life.

Engineering Systems and Environment associate professor Osman Ozbulut argues investing in advanced building technologies is a good buy for state and federal governments.

In a world that shakes daily, UVA Engineering professor Osman Ozbulut and his team are researching smart metals for resilient buildings.

A story about earthquakes, smart metals, and a UVA Engineering professor's family connection from half a world away.

From healing wounds to protecting the environment to transforming how data is characterized, chemical engineering’s Gaden, Gainer and Kirwan Fellows are hard at work.

Team Proposes Beaming of Energy via Laser for Lunar Exploration (BELLE) of Permanently Shadowed Craters

BELLE will make it possible to energize systems operating in the darkness without those systems having to leave the crater or carry their own power sources.

Novel Fabrication Process Leads to Efficient and Flexible Perovskite Solar Cell

Wilkes used a novel pulsed ultraviolet laser to form the solar cell’s metal-oxide electron transporting layer.

Liheng Cai Earns Prestigious National Science Foundation Award to Develop Polymeric Material to Control the Types of Energy Streaming into Windows with the Flick of a Switch

Liheng Cai and his students have developed a prototype crystal for active, fast control of light.

Elevation Recognizes Life’s Work in Laser-Material Interactions

Miniaturization of computers and electronics and the mainstreaming of renewable energy continue to motivate Gupta's work.

Ambitious UVA-Led Wind Energy Team, Powered by $6.1 Million in Grants, Partners with GE Global Research Center on Giant Wind Turbines

If successful, the revolutionary extreme-scale wind turbine would provide 25 MW of energy — five times the energy output of a conventional turbine — and not only make offshore...