UTC’s Venkat Kode earns NSF award for sustainable water-harvesting research

Close-up of Dr. Venkat Kode working with laboratory equipment while wearing safety glasses, gloves and a lab coat during water-harvesting research at UTC.

Dr. Venkat Kode, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has received a $199,516 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) award to advance research on producing water from air using sustainable, low-energy materials.