School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE)
Formerly known as "Chemical Engineering," the School officially added "Biomolecular" to our name. Our graduates are crucial to the manufacturing of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, computer chips, plastics, paper, and fibers; they are essential in providing the everyday energy needs of the nation.
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School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Undergraduate Research Option Theses [13]
Research Thesis Option for Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Majors
Recent Submissions
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Estimating Parameters for a Doyle Fuller Newman Model of a Graphite Half Cell Battery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Electrochemical research involves the modeling of electrochemical systems using various types of models. Models use adjustable parameters to be able to fit experimental data. Parameters of physics-based models are actual ... -
Rechargeable Zn-Based Batteries for Large Scale Energy Storage: Operando Imaging, Material Designing and Device Engineering
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-19)Energy storage technologies have the potential to change the energy infrastructure from relying heavily on fossil fuels to mostly using temporally intermittent renewable energy sources. Lithium-ion battery is the dominant ... -
Rechargeable Zn-Based Batteries for Large Scale Energy Storage: Operando Imaging, Material Designing and Device Engineering
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-19)Energy storage technologies have the potential to change the energy infrastructure from relying heavily on fossil fuels to mostly using temporally intermittent renewable energy sources. Lithium-ion battery is the dominant ... -
Advanced Convex Relaxations for Nonconvex Stochastic Programs and AC Optimal Power Flow
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)Mathematical optimization problems arise in nearly all areas of engineering design, operations, and control. However, optimization models of practical interest are often nonconvex, large-scale, and uncertain. All of these ... -
Channel engineering of hydroxide ion exchange polymers for electrochemical devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)Anion exchange membrane (AEM) fuel cells and electrolyzers are of interest because they have potential advantages over their acidic counterparts for the production and storage of renewable energy. AEM devices operate under ... -
Mass Transport and Durability of Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cell Electrodes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-03)Large transport resistances at high current densities hinder the proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells from reaching performance-cost-durability targets set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In this dissertation, the ... -
Thermally Modulated Fiber Sorbents for Rapidly Cycled Vacuum-Pressure Swing Adsorption of Post-Combustion Flue Gas
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-04)Thermally Modulated Fiber Sorbents for Rapidly Cycled Vacuum Pressure Swing Adsorption of Post Combustion Flue Gas Stephen J.A. DeWitt 339 Pages Directed by Dr. Ryan P. Lively The continued rise in the concentration ... -
Continuous manufacturing of beta-lactam antibiotics by enzymatic reactive crystallization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-12)The enzymatic production of beta-lactam antibiotics can be simplified by integrating the synthesis and separation of the antibiotic within a single vessel. In situ crystallization during the synthesis of beta-lactam ... -
Rapid and Accurate Fault Detection for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems Using Advanced Set-Based State Estimation Techniques
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)In applications such as wind energy, industrial robotics, and chemical processing, increases in complexity and automation have made component malfunctions and other abnormal events (i.e., faults) an ever-present threat to ... -
Computational Modeling of Adsorption of Complex Molecules in Metal-Organic Frameworks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-01)Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are nanoporous materials that have organic parts connected to metal nodes constructing a crystalline structures. MOFs are intrinsically flexible in nature, however, general practices in ... -
Use of recycled linear low-density polyethylene carbon in Li-ion anodes
Lithium-ion batteries are commonly used in many small electronics around the world. Efforts to make components of Li-ion batteries more sustainable have ranged from use of a brown algae extract in Li-ion anodes to efforts ... -
Amine-Functionalized Self-Pillared Pentasil (SPP) MFI as a Novel Acid-Base Bifunctional Catalyst
Self-pillared pentasil (SPP) MFI is a novel hierarchical zeolite material with a simple and economic synthetic route that has potential use in designs for acid-base bifunctional catalysts. With a high abundance of Brønsted ... -
Structure and stability of carbon molecular sieve membranes derived from 6FDA:BPDA-dam precursors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-24)Carbon molecular sieve (CMS) membranes are an advanced class of membrane materials useful for many different gas-pair separations. One drawback of CMS membranes, as with many membranes, is a tendency for performance to ... -
Engineering protein antigens to refocus the immune response
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-24)Infectious diseases continue to be a threat to millions globally – largely because of highly effective immune evasion mechanisms evolved in pathogens. Our work focuses on engineering proteins to shield selected epitopes ... -
Designing and developing tools to probe, monitor, and modulate the Wnt signaling pathway
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-24)A combined theoretical and computational model was proposed to elucidate the fundamental mechanism of the Wnt/beta-catenin signaling pathway. Analysis suggested that the partial inhibition of both beta-catenin phosphorylation ... -
Exploring Thermal Transport in Semiconductor Nanostructures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-10)Advances in nanotechnology have opened doors for a rational design of semiconductor materials with engineered thermal properties. This ability to control nanoscale thermal transport properties is key for advancing multiple ... -
Polymer-Supported Metal-Organic Frameworks for Adsorption and Catalysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06-28)Two methods for the incorporation of MOFs into polymeric support structures were proposed. The first was to use emulsion templated polymeric foams to create three dimensional structures with high permeability. Data were ... -
Polymeric Binder Design Frameworks for High Capacity Li-ion Battery Anodes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-07-11)Battery electrodes are complex mesoscale systems comprised of an active material, conductive agent, current collector, and polymeric binder. While the focus of research related to the design of robust, high-performance ... -
DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS AS ACID GAS ADSORBENTS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-05-24)Design Strategies for Metal-Organic Frameworks as Acid Gas Adsorbents Jayraj N. Joshi 316 Pages Directed by Dr. Krista S. Walton Methods and heuristics for designing metal-organic framework (MOF)-based media towards ... -
Engineered Cellulose Nanomaterial Systems for Biomass Upgrading Catalysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-06-10)Engineered Cellulose Nanomaterial Systems for Biomass Upgrading Catalysis Nathan C. Ellebracht 180 Pages Directed by Christopher W. Jones Cellulose nanomaterials (CNMs) are advanced bioproducts which are well positioned ...