Research in Chemical Engineering

Purdue Research Expertise Database
To find Purdue faculty who are active in in a wide variety of research areas, please visit the Purdue University Research Expertise database (PURE). The database can be searched by keyword or browsed by fields of study.

• Biochemical and Biomolecular Engineering
  Biocatalysis, metabolic engineering, bioreactor design and operation, purification of biological molecules, biomolecular engineering.

• Polymers and Materials
  Polymerization kinetics, reactor analysis, investigations of viscoelastic properties and rheological behavior, micellar structure of block copolymers.

• Nanoscale Science and Engineering
  Metallic nanoclusters, nanoparticle synthesis, nanoporous and nanostructured materials, molecular electronics, thermoelectric and solar devices, fuel cells, nanoscale biosensers.

• Surface Science and Reaction Engineering
  Heterogeneous catalysis, ab initio simulation and computational catalysis, surface science and kinetics, multiphase reactor performance.

• Molecular and Nanoscale Modeling
  Theory and modeling of colloidal systems and interfacial phenomena, molecular modeling of nanoscale systems, and computational catalysis, surface science.

• Fluid Mechanics and Interfacial Phenomena
  Surfactant equilibrium and dynamic adsorption, design of oriented ultrathin films, droplet break-up and coalescence, computational fluid dynamics, gas-solid flows.

• Product and Process Systems Engineering
  Statistical process monitoring and control, supply chain planning and optimization, risk assessment, product design and discovery informatics, systems biology.

• Mass Transport and Separations
  Recovery of biochemicals, protein adsorption, adsorption and ion exchange in fixed beds and fluidized beds, complex ion exchange systems, novel fixed-bed processes.