Members of the Illinois student chapter of the American Institute for Chemical Engineer (AIChE) received various honors including being named an outstanding student chapter at this year’s annual student conference.

As the world continues to search for alternative energy sources and make those known sources more efficient, a diverse group of researchers at the University of Illinois is making significant progress in using photocatalysis – absorbing sunlight in a semiconducting material to create charge carriers and a chemical reaction – making it a viable energy source.