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Matteo Pasquali is the A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science & NanoEngineering at Rice University, where he also serves as Director of the Carbon Hub. He joined Rice University in 2000 and has held various leadership positions including Chair of the Chemistry Department, Magister of Lovett College, and Co-Director of the Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory.
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
- Chemistry Department
- Materials Science and NanoEngineering Department
Professor Pasquali's research focuses on sustainable carbon materials and industrial decarbonization. His laboratory studies the interplay of energy, materials, and carbon, pioneering system-level pathways to decarbonize the industrial sector by using carbon materials while co-producing clean hydrogen. His work spans theoretical, computational, experimental, technoeconomic, and life-cycle analysis approaches.
His research group is credited with laying the scientific foundations for the structure-property relationships and industrial production of carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers. They have developed scalable pathways for manufacturing CNT materials that are as soft and flexible as silk, stronger than Kevlar, and almost as conductive as copper on a mass basis. These materials have applications in wearables, energy transmission, biomedicine, aerospace, and defense.
- Sustainable Carbon Materials
- Industrial Decarbonization
- Hydrocarbon conversion to materials with clean hydrogen
- Carbon nanotube processing
- Boron nitride nanotubes
- Materials recycling
Professor Pasquali has received numerous honors including being elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His awards include the NSF CAREER, Goradia Innovation Grand Prize, Herschel Rich Invention Award, Schlack Prize for Man-Made fibers, and the Rice Presidential Mentoring Award.
He has advised over 100 graduate students and postdocs who now hold key positions in leading universities, industry, national laboratories, startups, and finance. Professor Pasquali and his students have co-founded companies focused on medical applications of CNT fibers and sustainable CNT materials. His research is funded by a wide range of industries including oil companies, automotive, aerospace, electronics, and high-tech companies.
The Carbon Hub, which Professor Pasquali directs, is a partnership between academia, industry and federal labs encompassing over 20 organizations across four continents. It develops and deploys pathways for simultaneously harvesting zero-emission hydrogen and carbon materials that can slash emissions from industry and transportation.
