Dr. Yebo Li's laboratory  is located on the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) Wooster campus of Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University. BBRL research focuses on biomass feedstock preprocessing; biological conversion of biomass to fuels, chemicals, and polymers; and food and bioprocess engineering.

HIGHLIGHTS

12/18/2009  Collaborating with quasar Energy Group, Dr. Yebo Li received a grant from Ohio Third Frontier Program to commercialize his patent pending iADs technolgoy. The subcontract award to OSU is $1,493,820. . More information. 

12/05/2009   Arlington Energy based on Mansfield, OH has signed one-year option to license Dr. Yebo Li’s polyurethane foam patent and provided $50,000 to support the biomass based polyurethane foam research.

12/03/2009  Dr. Yebo Li received a grant from US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory through Touchstone Research Laboratory for algae research in the amount of $99,997 (first phase). The total award to Touch Stone Research Laboratory for the first phase is $500,000. 

11/19/2009  Dr. Jiying Zhu’s research was recognized at the 4th International Research Exposition and the certification was presented to her by Dr. Gee, president of The Ohio State Unviersity.More information &  Picture with Presidnet Gee

10/01/2009  The iADs poster presented by Stephen Park (graduate student of Dr. Li) on the 6th Annual BioOhio Conference received the Most Interesting Commercial Potential award . The co-authors of this poster are Dr. Jiying Zhu and Dr. Yebo Li. More information.

9/23/2009 Dr. Yebo Li (PI) received a grant from the USDA Higher Education Challenge Grants Program in the amount of $459,885 to develop a Biobased Energy Education Materials Exchange System (BEEMS). More information.

8/24/2009  Congratulations! Drew Martin (Undergraduate student from Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, summer intern student in Dr. Li's laboratory) won the first place award of the 2009 OARDC Research Internships Program (ORIP).

7/29/2009  Dr. Yebo Li received $116,000 from quasar energy group  and OARDC Seeds program for the study of anaerobci digestion.

7/27/2009  Dr. Yebo Li received an equipment grant in the amount of $96,683 from OARDC and  Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center (OBIC).

7/20/2009  Dr. Yebo Li received $104,882 from the U.S. Department of Energy through the North Central Sun Grant Center for a two-year study of strategies for concurrent wet storage and pretreatment of corn stover.

7/1/2009  Ms. Caixia (Ellen) Wan ( Ph.D. Student)’s proposal titled “Development of Effective Microbial Pretreatment for Ethanol Production from Corn Stover” was funded by the OARDC SEEDS program in the amount of $5,000.

6/30/2009  Mr.Stephen Park (Ph.D. Student) joined the Bioproducts and Bioenergy Research Laboratory as a Ph.D. student from Virginia Tech on June 12, 2009. He received the 2009 Distinguished University Fellowship/Associateship for his doctoral studies at The Ohio State University.

5/15/2009  Ms. Caixia (Ellen) Wan (Ph.D. Student)  received the 2008-2009 Rev. P T Taiganides - Prof. R E Stewart Memorial Award for the outstanding achievements in her doctoral studies at the Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, OSU.

3/20/2009  Dr. Yebo Li joined with scientists from North Carolina A&T State University, Purdue University, and Alabama A&M University to receive $499,722 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The subcontract award OSU received is $118,784.  

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