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RESEARCH
 


Areas of Research Expertise

 

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering's faculty are heavily involved in research projects in a number of areas of expertise.  Please see below for a sampling of the research conducted by department faculty members.

 

Full-Time Faculty
Name
Title

Areas of Research Interest and Expertise

GTI Professor (ChE) & Associate Chair, Undergraduate Affairs

• High-temperature gas cleaning

• Pollution control and solid waste management

• Gas separation and purification

• Process design and development

Max McGraw Professor (ChE) & Dean, Armour College of Engineering

• Multiphase flow and fluidization

• Flow in porous media

• Material processing and particle technology

Professor (ChE & Math)

• Computational fluid mechanics

• Materials properties

• Polymer rheology

Assistant Professor (ChE)

• Advanced Process Control

• Fuel Cell System • Design and Control

Professor (ChE), Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate College

• Hierarchical multi-agent systems for modeling, supervision, and control of distributed complex adaptive systems

• Techniques for supervision of manufacturing process operations: Multivariable process monitoring, performance assessment, fault diagnosis, and fault-tolerant control

• Development of metabolic pathways and dynamic models of insulin secretion and utilization and simulation of biomedical systems

Assistant Professor (ChE)

• Membrane biophysics

• Biomaterials

• Drug delivery

• Biosensors and biomimetic thin films

• Polymer films

Distinguished Professor (ChE)

• Hydrodynamics of fluidization using kinetic theory

• Gas-solid transport

• Hydrodynamic models for slurry bubble column reactors

Philip Danforth Armour Professor of Engineering (ChE), Provost & Senior Vice President

• Crystallization from solution

• Nucleation

• Molecular modeling

Professor (ChE)

• Biochemical engineering

• Chemical reaction engineering

Assistant Professor (ChE)

• Surface analysis and modification

• Biomaterials and biosensors

• Tissue engineering

Associate Professor (ChE) & Director, Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering

• Electrochemistry

• Materials development

• Batteries and fuel cells

Assistant Professor (ChE)

• Hybrid materials for sustainable chemical and electrochemical energy conversion

Hydrogen and liquid fueled polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs)

• Degradation mitigation strategies in PEFCs

• Development of educational modules to demonstrate sustainable energy economy concepts

Associate Professor (ChE)

• Kinetic theory

• Polymer rheology predictions

• Thermal conductivity measurements

Johnson Polymer Professor (ChE) & Chair

• Polymer reaction engineering

• Mathematical modeling

• Nonlinear dynamics

Professor (ChE) & Associate Chair, Graduate Affairs

• Transport phenomena in complex materials

• Forced rayleigh scattering

• Polymer rheology

• Polymer foam processing

Professor (ChE), Vice President for International Affairs, & Motorola Chair

• Thin liquid films, foams, emulsions and nano-particle suspensions

• Film rheology and its applications

• Wetting, spreading and adhesion of nano-fluids on solid surfaces

• Environmental technologies

• Food colloids

 
Research and Teaching Faculty
Name Title

Areas of Research Interest and Expertise

Senior Lecturer and Director of Laboratories

• Interfacial mass transfer

• Rheological properties

Research Associate Professor & Coordinator, Renewable Energy Programs

• Hydrogen Storage and Production

• Renewable Energy Systems

• Water Desalination

• Advanced Batteries and Fuel Cell Systems for Hybrid/Electric Vehicles

• Electrochemical Engineering and Technology

• Distributed Power Generation Systems, Energy, Environment and Economics and Renewable Energy

• Heat & Mass Transfer, and Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes

• Thermal Modeling and Scale-Up Design, Unit Operation and System Integration

• Calorimetric Measurements: extensive experience in Accelerated Rate Calorimetry (ARC)

• Modeling and Simulation; numerical methods; finite difference, finite element, and programming

Research Professor & Director, Particle Technology and Crystalization Center

• Drug Delivery

• Fluid and thermal sciences

• Molecular Simulations

• Pharmaceutical technology

Adjunct Professor

• Process design

• Environmental engineering

• Computer applications

Max McGraw Professor of Energy and Power Engineering and Management & Director, IIT Energy + Power Center

• Fossil fuel technologies

• Energy and resource economics

• Energy and environmental policy

• Electrification and distributed generation

• Global climate change

Industrial ecology

Nagy, Zoltan Research Professor

• Electrochemistry

Research Professor

• Interfacial rheology

Research Professor

• Fuel Cells and supercapacitors

Distinguished Research Professor

• Fuel cell and battery design and operation

• High-temperature fuel cells

• Lithium battery design and thermal management

 

 


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