{"articles":[{ "contentID": "1777974", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/incoming-hod-announcement/", "date": "22 May 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-05-22", "headline": "New Head of Department announced for Chemical Engineering", "summary": "The Department of Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Jason Hallett as incoming Head of Department. Professor Hallett will succeed Professor Omar Matar from 1 October 2026, bringing extensive experience, leadership and strategic vision to the role.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "Professor Jason P Hallett, Professor Omar K Matar", "homepage": "yes", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering, Campus and community", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Research", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1777573", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/cutting-solar-panel-cleaning-water-use-by-90-with-liquid-droplet-mops/", "date": "21 May 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-05-21", "headline": "Cutting solar panel cleaning water use by 90% with \u2018liquid droplet mops\u2019", "summary": "Imperial researchers, working with colleagues at City University of Hong Kong, have developed a new way to clean solar panels using far less water, by precisely controlling how individual water droplets strike dusty surfaces.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain, Shafali Jain", "profile": "Professor Omar K Matar", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Environment|Sustainability", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1773497", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/imperial-professor-awarded-prestigious-royal-society-visiting-fellowship/", "date": "8 May 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-05-08", "headline": "Imperial professor awarded prestigious Royal Society Visiting Fellowship", "summary": "Professor George Jackson FRS has been awarded a Royal Society Yusuf Hamied Visiting Fellowship, recognising his outstanding international scientific leadership and fostering new research collaborations with India.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "Professor George Jackson", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering, Imperial Global", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Engineering Chemical Eng|Imperial Global|India", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1773508", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/chemeng-enterprise-day-2026-spotlights-next-generation-of-imperial-spinouts/", "date": "7 May 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-05-07", "headline": "ChemEng Enterprise Day spotlights the next generation of Imperial spinouts", "summary": "Imperial\u2019s Department of Chemical Engineering brought together founders, investors and researchers for ChemEng Enterprise Day 2026, showcasing the Department\u2019s growing pipeline of deep-tech ventures and strengthening connections across Imperial\u2019s innovation ecosystem.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain, Shafali Jain", "profile": "Cav. Professor Sandro Macchietto, Professor Hugh R Brady, Professor Omar K Matar", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering Enterprise", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Engineering Chemical Eng|Enterprise|Entrepreneurship", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1772919", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/professor-claire-adjiman-awarded-2026-icheme-sharma-medal/", "date": "5 May 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-05-05", "headline": "Imperial academic awarded prestigious IChemE award", "summary": "Professor Claire Adjiman, Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the 2026 Sharma Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), in recognition of\u00A0sustained outstanding contributions to the field of chemical engineering.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "Professor Claire S J Adjiman", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Engineering Chemical Eng", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1764343", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/imperial-researcher-wins-national-ai-award-for-engineering-innovation/", "date": "24 March 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-03-24", "headline": "Imperial researcher wins leading AI award", "summary": "Dr Nausheen Basha, Research Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, received the AI Champion Award at the 2026 everywoman in Technology Awards, in recognition of translating advanced research into impact and advocating for inclusive leadership.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "Dr Nausheen S Basha", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Artificial Intelligence|Research", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1763828", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/chemeng-enterprise-day-to-showcase-next-generation-of-deep-tech-chemical-engineering-spinouts/", "date": "23 March 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-03-23", "headline": "ChemEng Enterprise Day: Showcasing next-gen Deep Tech spinouts ", "summary": "The Department of Chemical Engineering at 天美传媒 will host ChemEng Enterprise Day 2026 on 29 April, bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders to explore the latest innovations emerging from the department.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain, Shafali Jain", "profile": "Cav. Professor Sandro Macchietto", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering Enterprise", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Engineering Chemical Eng|Enterprise|Entrepreneurship", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1758132", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/centenary-enterprise-award-success/", "date": "9 March 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-03-09", "headline": "From research to real-world impact with Centenary Enterprise Award", "summary": "Imperial researcher awarded the Centenary Enterprise Award for 2024\/25 by the City & Guilds College Association (CGCA).", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain, Shafali Jain", "profile": "", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering, Business, Science", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Engineering Chemical Eng|Enterprise|Entrepreneurship", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1756620", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/christos-royal-society-report/", "date": "4 March 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-03-04", "headline": "Imperial academic leads key Royal Society report ", "summary": "Professor Christos N. Markides, Head of the Clean Energy Processes Laboratory in the Department of Chemical Engineering, 天美传媒, played a leading role in a new Royal Society report on the use of thermal energy to improve industrial energy efficiency.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain, Shafali Jain", "profile": "", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering, Campus and community", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Climate, energy and sustainability|Energy|Engineering Chemical Eng", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1756371", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/dr-giulia-tarantino-loreal-unesco-young-talent-award/", "date": "3 March 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-03-03", "headline": "Imperial researcher highly commended at L\u2019Or\u00E9al\u2013UNESCO Awards", "summary": "Dr Giulia Tarantino, a researcher at 天美传媒, has been recognised as highly commended in the Engineering category of the L\u2019Or\u00E9al\u2013UNESCO For Women in Science UK & Ireland Young Talent Awards.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Postdoctoral Researchers", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1748134", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/a-heart-to-heart-on-sustainability-in-chemical-engineering/", "date": "20 February 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-02-20", "headline": "A heart-to-heart on sustainability in Chemical Engineering", "summary": "The Department of Chemical Engineering marked Valentine\u2019s season with a sustainability-focused staff engagement event, bringing colleagues together for an open dialogue on the department\u2019s environmental ambitions.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "Professor Omar K Matar, Dr Salvador Acha Izquierdo, Ms Harriet K Wallace, Professor Anna Korre", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Sustainability|Sustainable Imperial", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1742177", "articleURL": "/news/articles/admin-services/enterprise/2026/nanomox-raises-24-million-to-scale-a-sustainable-ionic-liquid-platform-for-advanced-materials-and-critical-minerals/", "date": "10 February 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-02-10", "headline": "Nanomox raises \u00A32.4m to scale sustainable ionic liquid platform for advanced materials and critical minerals", "summary": "Nanomox, a pioneer of sustainable production and recovery processes for inorganic materials, today announced completion of a \u00A32.4 million seed investment round, consisting of a mix of equity and grants. ", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Gavin Reed", "profile": "Dr Francisco J Malaret", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Administration, Centres, Engineering, Imperial News, Natural Sciences, News, Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering Enterprise, Undaunted", "topic": "Engineering, Business", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Climate Change|Climate, energy and sustainability|Enterprise|Entrepreneurship", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1741038", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2026/imperial-researcher-shortlisted-for-national-ai-award/", "date": "4 February 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-02-04", "headline": "Imperial researcher shortlisted for national AI award", "summary": "Dr Nausheen Basha, Research Associate at Imperial, has been named a finalist in the AI Champion category at the 2026 everywoman in Technology Awards, the UK\u2019s longest-running programme celebrating women transforming the technology sector.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "Dr Nausheen S Basha", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering, Science", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Engineering Ai And Machine Learning", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1739167", "articleURL": "/news/articles/2026/london-based-solve-chemistry-secures-4m-to-modernise-chemical-production/", "date": "28 January 2026", "year": "2026", "sortDate": "2026-01-28", "headline": "London-based SOLVE Chemistry secures \u00A34m to modernise chemical production", "summary": "An AI-driven chemistry startup, SOLVE Chemistry, has raised \u00A34 million seed funding to expand its work helping pharmaceutical and agrochemical manufacturers bring products to market faster, more sustainably, and at lower cost.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "David Silverman", "profile": "", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Imperial News, Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering Enterprise, Institute for Digital Molecular Design and Fabrication (DigiFAB)", "topic": "Science, Engineering", "topicLabel": "Science", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Artificial Intelligence|Engineering Chemical Eng|Engineering Computing|Enterprise|Entrepreneurship", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1720865", "articleURL": "/news/articles/2025/imperial-and-solve-chemistry-bring-chemical-reaction-data-to-machine-learning/", "date": "22 December 2025", "year": "2025", "sortDate": "2025-12-22", "headline": "Imperial and SOLVE Chemistry bring chemical reaction data to machine learning", "summary": "Researchers from Imperial and its spinout company SOLVE Chemistry have presented a chemical dataset at the prestigious AI conference NeurIPS that could help accelerate the use of machine learning to solve solvent challenges in industrial chemistry.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "David Silverman", "profile": "", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Imperial News, Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering Enterprise, Institute for Digital Molecular Design and Fabrication (DigiFAB)", "topic": "Science, Engineering", "topicLabel": "Science", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Artificial Intelligence|Engineering Chemical Eng|Engineering Computing|Enterprise|Entrepreneurship", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1719579", "articleURL": "/news/articles/admin-services/enterprise/2025/imperial-experts-support-push-for-greener-film-and-tv-production/", "date": "19 December 2025", "year": "2025", "sortDate": "2025-12-19", "headline": "Imperial experts support push for greener film and TV production", "summary": "The UK film and TV industry wants the power it uses on location to be clean by 2030. A plan to achieve this goal has been reviewed and validated by researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering.", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Ian Mundell", "profile": "Professor Nilay Shah, Dr Salvador Acha Izquierdo", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Imperial News, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering, Business", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Energy|Engineering Chemical Eng|Engineering Transition To Zero Pollution Economy|Enterprise|Net Zero", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1719060", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2025/powering-santas-sleigh-the-electric-way/", "date": "16 December 2025", "year": "2025", "sortDate": "2025-12-16", "headline": "An electric sleigh for Santa?", "summary": "If Santa ever swapped reindeers for an electric sleigh, the first challenge would be one Imperial scientists know very well - could a battery deliver reliable power in extreme winter conditions?", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain, Simon Levey", "profile": "Professor Magda Titirici, Dr Zhenyu Guo, Dr Jingyu Feng", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering", "topic": "Engineering, Science", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Research", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },{ "contentID": "1713574", "articleURL": "/news/articles/engineering/chemical-engineering/2025/from-lab-to-global-stage-brilliant-dyes-redefine-sustainable-colour/", "date": "25 November 2025", "year": "2025", "sortDate": "2025-11-25", "headline": "From lab to global stage: Brilliant Dyes win global award", "summary": "What began as a bold idea in a university lab has now captured global attention. ", "image": "\"\"", "author": "Navta Hussain", "profile": "Professor Klaus Hellgardt, Mr Redwan Rahman, Dr Md Tabish Noori", "homepage": "", "owningGroup": "Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering Enterprise", "topic": "Engineering", "topicLabel": "Engineering", "storyType": "News Article", "tags": "Enterprise|Undaunted", "ratio": "1.50", "visible": "yes" },]}