04 December, 2018

2018 Center Industry Affiliates Program (CIAP) 9th Annual Meeting

WDRC hosted the 9th Annual Meeting of the Center Industry Affiliates Program (CIAP) in the campus. The event was attended by over 40 representatives from the center's industry partners and senior executives from KAUST.

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26 November, 2018

Drinking water sucked from the dusty desert air

An inexpensive hydrogel-based material efficiently captures moisture even from low-humidity air and then releases it on demand.

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21 November, 2018

Congratulations to Babar Khan for a successful Ph.D. defense!

Babar successfully defended his dissertation entitled, "Early biofouling detection using fluorescence-based extracellular enzyme activity".

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20 November, 2018

Surface science concepts are up for revision

Immersion could become the ultimate test for assessing the wetting properties of coating-free microtextured surfaces.

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30 October, 2018

Babar Khan wins Best Oral Presentation Award- ISNMS 2018

Congratulations to Babar Khan for receiving the best Oral Presentation Award at the International Symposium on Nanomaterials and Membrane Science 2018, held in Marrakech, Morocco on October 11-12, 2018.

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30 October, 2018

Peiying Hong is the 2019 Winner of the James J. Morgan ES&T Early Career Award

Professor Peiying Hong is the recipient of the 2019 James J. Morgan Environmental Science & Technology Early Career Award.

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01 October, 2018

WDRC welcomes Prof. Geert-Jan Witkamp

WDRC welcomes Professor Geert-Jan Witkamp as a professor of Process Technology effective September 27, 2018.

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25 September, 2018

Nada Aljassim becomes first KGSP student to earn Ph.D. at KAUST

Nada Aljassim shares her inspiring journey as a KGSP student until she earns her Ph.D. degree at KAUST.

The KGSP program has become Saudi Arabia's preeminent STEM scholarship and is attracting ambitious students who want to contribute to innovation and development in the Kingdom.

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09 September, 2018

Reusing water to grow quality food in cities

Professor TorOve Leiknes and his team are setting up an aquaponics system at KAUST to trial ways of rearing fish and growing crops using recycled residential wastewater from the university complex. Their project will investigate how to optimize the system, including trialing novel lighting methods and fish feed and improved water-treatment processes.

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06 September, 2018

Bio-inspired materials decrease drag for liquids

An eco-friendly coating-free strategy has now been developed to make solid surfaces liquid repellent, which is crucial for the transportation of large quantities of liquids through pipes. Researchers from KAUST’s Water Desalination and Reuse Center have engineered nature-inspired surfaces that help to decrease frictional drag at the interface between liquid and pipe surface.

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14 August, 2018

Faculty Appointment and Promotions

It is with great pleasure that we announce the recent advancement of three of our faculty members, in recognition of their contribution to scientific scholarship and the goals of WDRC.

Let us all congratulate them on this important milestone in their career!

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09 August, 2018

Hybrid nanomaterials bristle with potential

Associate Professor Peng Wang and Professor Yu Han co-led postdoc Sifei Zhuo in developing and a new approach to growing nanomaterials that have a good electrocatalytic performance for great energy conversion and storage potential for electrochemical applications.

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31 July, 2018

Prof. Kim Choon Ng receives Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2018

Prof. Kim Choon Ng and his collaborators at the National University of Singapore is the recipient of Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2018 by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES).

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29 July, 2018

Hong Cheng wins most popular poster award

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Hong Cheng for winning the most popular poster award at the 15th International Water Association Leading Edge Conference on Water and Wastewater Technologies held in Nanjing, China from May 27-31, 2018.

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12 June, 2018

Boring down on boron

Prof. Noreddine Ghaffour and his group explored the effects of two thermal-based desalination methods with respect to its boron removal capacity. The Air-gap membrane distillation (AGMD), an emerging technology being developed at WDRC has proven its high potential in the production of safe, innovative and cost-effective drinking water that would meet the stringent standards of boron concentration set by Saudi Arabia and the GCC in its water distribution systems. Learn more about boron and its volatile behavior in this latest article.

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03 June, 2018

Solar energy tapped for clean water

Associate Professor Peng Wang and his group developed a 3D-photothermal structure that achieved near 100% efficiency in producing clean fresh water using energy from sunlight.

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14 May, 2018

Mimicking a sweet solution to mop up pollution

A fast and safe method to prepare a 3D porous material that mimics the shape of a honeycomb could have broad applications from catalysis to drug delivery or for filtering air to remove pollutants or viruses.

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02 May, 2018

WDRC Postdoc wins Best Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award

Luca Fortunato, a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. TorOve Leiknes’s group was awarded with the Best Young Scientist Oral Presentation at The International Symposium on Advanced Membrane Bioreactors for Environment Sustainability (IBA - AMBRES 2018) held on April 15 – 18, 2018 in Tianjin, China. Fortunato’s presentation entitled “Biofouling development in Activated Sludge Membrane Bioreactor: In-situ non destructive monitoring" was selected from among 115 speakers who participated in the event. #WDRC

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23 April, 2018

Growing more with less

In a hot and dry country like Saudi Arabia, WDRC Assistant Professor Himanshu Mishra’s research opens a promising and innovative means to save a lot of water used in agriculture, which is otherwise lost through evaporation.

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12 April, 2018

Peng Wang featured at Environmental Science: Nano

WDRC Associate Professor, Peng Wang has been recognized by Environmental Science: Nano for his recent work on photothermal materials which highlights its great potential for clean and more energy-efficient water production and emerging applications in treatment technologies.

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