Chemical & Environmental Engineering Research
Nanomaterials: Nanomaterials represent a new class of materials, where ever-smaller length scales (<100 nm) impart altered or enhanced properties…
Soft Matter and Complex Fluids: Systems whose physical and mechanical properties are comparable to thermal energy at room temperature and thus easily deformed by thermal forces are considered soft materials…
Biomolecular Engineering: Biomolecular Engineering is an emerging discipline at the interface of molecular biology, biophysical chemistry, and chemical engineering – whose express purpose is developing…
Interfacial Phenomena: The boundary between two phases, the interface between the phases, has very different properties from that of the bulk phase and are important in a variety of chemical engineering processes…
Combustion: More than 80% of the world’s energy consumption involves some form of combustion. From a global warming perspective, combustion remains the most challenging technology until carbon capture and sequestration become feasible.…
Energy: Greater than 80% of our global energy demand is met by the combustion of fossil fuels. By the year 2030, this energy demand is expected…
Water: Vital for life, critical for economic productivity, and fundamental to environmental processes, water is simultaneously an essential molecule and a resource commodity.…
Sustainability: Concerns regarding population growth, global warming, resource scarcity, globalization, and environmental degradation have led to an increasing awareness that current engineering design…
Interdisciplinary Research Priorities
