Browsing School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar Series by Title
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The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Researchers
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Advanced Nanostructured Thermoelectric Materials for Waste Heat Recovery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-03-27)The rapid development of thermoelectric materials in the past decade has provided a possibility of directly converting waste heat back to electricity based on the Seebeck effect. In the past three years, we have developed ... -
Atmospheric Aerosols: Chemistry, Clouds, and Climate
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-03-31)Atmospheric aerosol particles impact Earth’s radiation balance, and therefore its climate, both directly by scattering and absorbing solar radiation and indirectly by influencing cloud albedo. By their direct and indirect ... -
Biocatalyzed Fuel Cells for Microscale Devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-02-18)Biocatalysts represent a compelling alternative to precious metals as catalysts for low-temperature, microscale fuel cell power systems. Enzymatic catalysts capable of reducing oxygen or oxidizing small organic molecules ... -
Biomass as Fuel and Feedstock for Reduction of Carbon Emissions
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-17)Biomass holds great promise as a fuel or feedstock for carbon-neutral or even carbon-negative processes, including power, heat and chemical production. This talk discusses pathways for biomass utilization as a fuel or ... -
BP Oil Tragedy: What Went Wrong and Leadership Challenges
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Canonical Modeling as a Tool in Metabolic Engineering
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-11-12)A growing branch of metabolic engineering uses mathematical pathway models for the development of strategies for optimizing yield in microbes. The use of such models is necessary because the production pathways are often ... -
Catalysis on a Crowded Surface: The Role of Surface Oxygen on NO Oxidation of Pt
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008-12-03)The reaction NO + 1/2O₂ → NO₂ is a key step in a new technology for exhaust emissions called NOx catalytic traps. The reaction proceeds on a Pt catalyst only when a high coverage of oxygen lowers the binding energy of ... -
Catalysis to Eliminate Needless Chlorine in Industry - Direct Synthesis of H2O2 and “Green” Epoxidations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-10-04)H2O2 is an environmentally-benign and selective oxidant useful for epoxidations and bleaching, yet, its use is limited because the anthraquinone oxidation process is viable only at very large scales. Currently, many ... -
Cell and Particle Behavior in Microfluidic Mixers: Applications in Cell Signaling Dynamics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-10-14)Fluid mixing is common in large-scale chemical processes. Recently, many biological or chemical processes are carried out in microfluidic systems, where mixing of solutes is predominantly a diffusion process due to the ... -
Chance, Necessity, and the Origins of Life
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-29)Earth’s 4.5 billion year history is a complex tale of deterministic physical and chemical processes, as well as "frozen accidents." This history is preserved most vividly in mineral species, as explored in new approaches ... -
Chemical and Biological Microsystems - What Are the Advantages of Small Systems?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010-04-14)Microfabrication techniques have fueled spectacular advances in the electronic and telecommunications industries, and more recently, in microanalysis chips for chemical and biological applications. These systems promise ... -
Chemical Engineering Principles in Quantitative Systems Pharmacology to Drive Next-Generation Medical Imaging and Drug Therapy
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-09-12)Every drug given to a patient must reach its site of action in therapeutic concentrations, and similarly, molecular imaging agents need to reach their target so they can bind or react to generate contrast. At the core ... -
Chemical Interactions Between Organic and Inorganic Components in Atmospheric Aerosols
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-03-07)Atmospheric aerosols have important impacts on climate, air quality and human health. Air quality and climate models often cannot capture the chemical complexity of aerosols, which contain inorganic ions and thousands of ... -
Collaborative Control of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-09-23)This talk will present a collaborative control capability that allows a group of heterogeneous, autonomous, unmanned vehicles to dynamically and autonomously collaborate and reconfigure in response to varying mission ... -
Collapsing Colloidal Gels: How and When?
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-03-15)Drying colloidal dispersions by evaporating the liquid to create particulate solids, porous coatings, or continuous films is common to a number of important technologies, ranging from applying latex paint and manufacturing ... -
Combining Science and Engineering for Molecular Separations: Thoughts from a Career
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012-02-15)In this lecture, I will attempt to integrate several aspects of my research with selected recent grand challenges announced by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering¹. In addition, I hope to demonstrate that collaboration ... -
Combustion Aerosols and Addressing the Global CO₂ Challenge
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Computational Approaches to Resolving the TGF-β Paradox in Cancer
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011-03-16)Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) signaling regulates a wide range of cellular and physiologic processes including proliferation, apoptosis, differentiation, migration, angiogenesis, and immune surveillance. During ... -
Computational Design of Organic Photocatalysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-03)Inorganic catalysts have been workhorses in many important industrial processes while many biological systems, such as photosynthesis, rely on organic catalysts. In this talk I will discuss the use of computational chemistry ...