Haotian Wang. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Haotian Wang. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

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Funding flows into liquid fuel strategy

NSF awards Haotian Wang $2 million to explore converting carbon dioxide into fuels

Rice University engineer Haotian Wang has been awarded a four-year, $2 million collaborative grant by the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore how waste carbon dioxide, the bane of Earth’s atmosphere, can be directly converted into pure liquid fuels.