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Rice
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Faculty & their Research Areas
Faculty with Primary Appointments
- Constantine D. Armeniades, Professor; Ph.D., Case Western Reserve, 1969. Polymers.
- Walter G.
Chapman,
W. W. Akers Professor and Director of the Institute of Environmental
and Energy Systems; Ph.D. Cornell, 1988, thermodynamics, statistical
mechanics, molecular
simulation.
- Ramon Gonzalez, William
Akers Assistant Professor.
Metabolic engineering, functional genomics, systems biology, microbial
fermentations.
- George J. Hirasaki,
A. J. Hartsook Professor, Ph.D. Rice, 1967, NMR-measured transport
properties of fluids and rocks, foams and emulsions, aquifer remediation,
enhanced oil
recovery.
- Nikolaos V. Mantzaris,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Minnesota, 2000, nonlinear control and
optimization, biochemical engineering.
- Clarence A. Miller,
Louis Calder Professor, Ph.D. Minnesota, 1969, interfacial phenomena,
surfactants, foam, emulsions, aquifer remediation.
- Matteo
Pasquali,
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Minnesota, 1999, microstructured liquids,
free surface flows, computational modeling of processing flows.
- Marc A. Robert,
Professor, Ph.D. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
1980, thermodynamics, interfacial phenomena, thin films, random
media.
- Michael S. Wong,
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. MIT, 2000, materials, nanotechnology,
catalysis, reaction engineering, green chemistry, bioseparations.
- Kyriacos Zygourakis,
A. J. Hartsook Professor and Department Chair, Ph.D. Minnesota,
1981, chemical reactor design, cellular and tissue engineering.
Faculty with Joint Appointments
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Vicki Colvin,
Professor and Executive Director of CBEN (joint with Chemistry),
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1994. Physical chemistry, nanoscale
science.
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Antonios G. Mikos, J.W. Cox Professor (joint with Bioengineering), Ph.D., Purdue, 1988, biomaterials, targeted drug delivery, tissue engineering.
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Ka-Yiu San, Professor (joint with Bioengineering), Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1984, biochemical engineering, reaction engineering.
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Jennifer L. West, Isabel
C. Cameron Professor (joint with Bioengineering), Ph.D., Texas, 1996, biomaterials,
tissue engineering.
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Mark R. Wiesner, Professor (joint with Civil & Environmental Engineering), Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1985, membrane processes, environmental transport and chemistry.
Emeritus Faculty
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W. W. Akers, Professor; Ph.D., Michigan, 1950.
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Sam H. Davis Jr., Professor, Sc.D., MIT, 1957.
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Derek C. Dyson, Professor, Ph.D., University of London, 1966.
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J. David Hellums, A. J. Hartsook Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1961.
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Joe W. Hightower, Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1963.
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Riki Kobayashi, Louis Calder Professor, Ph.D., Michigan, 1951.
RESEARCH AREAS
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Advanced Materials: biomaterials, complex fluids, polymers and composites, supramolecular templating of meso-structured materials, quantum-dot-based devices, mesoporous materials for bioseparations.
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Biosystems: biochemical and metabolic engineering, signal transduction & pattern formation, drug delivery, cellular and tissue engineering.
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Catalysis and Chemical Reactors : ionic liquids for homogeneous / heterogeneous catalysis, multifunctional, nanocomposite solid acid catalysis, bioreactors, design of pollution control reactors.
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Computational Chemical Engineering: computational modeling of processing flows, modeling of biological systems, thin film hydrodynamics, microscructured liquids, molecular simulation, transport in porous media, reactor design, cell population dynamics, nonlinear control of bioprocesses, tissue engineering.
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Environmental: green chemistry, surfactant/foam aquifer remediation, clean chemical processing.
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Interfacial Phenomena: colloids, detergency, emulsion coalescence, foam, free surface flows, microemulsions, thin films, wettability and spreading.
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Petroleum Engineering: NMR rock and fluid properties, wettability and spreading, asphaltene deposition, foam EOR and diversion.
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Thermodynamics : molecular simulation, statistical mechanics, asphaltene deposition, gas hydrates.
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Transport Phenomena : rheology of complex fluids, computational fluid mechanics, foam in porous media, correlation of NMR relaxation with diffusivity and viscosity, NMR studies of rock pore structure.
RESEARCH FACILITIES
Abercrombie Laboratory houses the research, administrative, and support functions of the chemical engineering department. The Complex Fluids Dynamics Laboratory uses rheology and visualization to study microstuctured fluids under flow; the Interfacial Phenomena Laboratory investigates the equilibrium phase behavior of surfactant systems, including emulsions and foams; the Wettability and Spreading Phenomena Laboratory explores the mechanisms for the wetting of fluids on solid substrates and the spreading of liquids on fluid substrates; and the Thermodynamics and Transport Properties Laboratory investigates NMR relaxation, diffusion and viscosity of high-pressure hydrocarbons, NMR rock properties, and formation of gas hydrates; the Chemical Reaction Engineering Laboratory s tudies dynamic phenomena occurring in non-catalytic gas-solid reactions, using video microscopy and image processing. The department also has a network of advanced workstations and parallel clusters to support research in computational chemical engineering.
A major renovation project of Abercrombie has recently been completed. This
project has provided about 14.500 ft2 of renovated laboratory space to chemical
engineering. Another project is currently under way to add 2,500 ft2 of renovated
lab space to the department.
Bioengineering faculty members with joint appointments have their offices and research laboratories either in the George R. Brown Hall or the newly renovated Keck Hall. The Cell Migration and Tissue Engineering Laboratory studies cell migration and its effects on tissue growth using advanced video microscopy and digital image processing; the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory is devoted to cellular and tissue engineering projects, while the Biochemical Engineering Laboratory provides bioreactors and other facilities to study microbial, plant, and animal cell cultures.
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