Materials, Polymers and Transport Processes
We are engineering new classes of hard and soft materials to improve energy storage, sense and respond to environmental analytes, selectively deliver therapeutic agents, replace petroleum-derived polymers, and enable new catalytic processes. These studies are complemented by fundamental investigations into transport processes in complex environments that enable new microfluidic technologies for human health, materials synthesis, and chemical synthesis. Research in this area is enhanced by computational modeling, applied mathematics, and machine learning, as well as numerous collaborations across campus.
Representative Topics
Soft materials, nanomaterials, fluid mechanics, colloid and interfacial engineering, self-assembly, synthesis, characterization.
Faculty
Core faculty: Cersonsky, Gebbie, Graham, Klingenberg, Loo, Lynn, Schreier, Van Lehn
Affiliate faculty: Boydston, Gopalan, Spagnolie, Liu
Centers, Consortia and Institutes
Major research centers that collaborate with or include CBE faculty:
- Center for the Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
- Wisconsin Energy Institute
- Wisconsin-Puerto Rico Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials
CBE-led centers:
- Center for Cell Manufacturing Technologies – CMaT (Palecek)
- Chemical Upcycling of Waste Products – CUWP (Huber)