{"id":25,"date":"2021-07-02T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kolar.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2021-10-28T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:54:19","slug":"research-focus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/research-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<table style=\"height: 402px;width: 1500px;border-style: hidden\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 402px\">\n<td style=\"width: 1500px;height: 402px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/nitesh_focus-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/nitesh_focus-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/nitesh_focus-1194x800.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/nitesh_focus-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/10\/nitesh_focus.jpg 1313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 39.2285%;height: 402px\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The WASTE lab promotes research on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">various <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">aspects of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">agricultural<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> waste management. One area of waste management that we are particularly interested in is employing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">heterogeneous<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> catalysts in the valorization of animal wastes for the synthesis of multifunctional biochars. Simultaneously, we are studying the engineering processes to enhance our understanding of lignin depolymerization. Additional areas of interest are focused on the use of ozone as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an advanced oxidant for air and water treatment. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WASTE lab promotes research on various aspects of agricultural waste management. One area of waste management that we are particularly interested in is employing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":124,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-landing.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bae.ncsu.edu\/kolarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}