Yang Han landed in exactly the right place at The Ohio State University to begin a career in decarbonizing flue gas from fossil fuel-burning power plants.
After obtaining his Ohio State doctorate degree in chemical engineering in 2018, Han is now a research scientist working with distinguished professor of engineering Winston Ho, who, for more than 20 years, has developed methods to reduce fossil fuel-generated pollution during a career at Exxon and on the faculty at Ohio State. Ho, a professor of both chemical and biomolecular engineering and materials science and engineering, developed a membrane that can cost-effectively capture 90% of the CO2 emitted from coal-fired power plants.