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Focus Areas
Nanotechnology, Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
- Non-lithographic imprint lithography
- Carbon nanotubes
- Nanowires and nanoparticles patterning
Multiscale Process Systems Engineering (More information @ mPSE Group website)
- Optimal model-based control of particulate processes (crystallization, polymerization, fermentation, filtration)
- Modeling and experimental studies in sonocrystallisation
- Machine vision for process state characterization
- Modelling, simulation, optimization and control of complex process systems including distributed, discrete-continuous and batch processes
- Molecular modeling and simulation
- Computational kinetic theory and fluid dynamics
- Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
- Microflow
- Turbulence
- Plant-wide control and control structure design
- Process controllability analysis and fundamental performance limitations
- Performance assessment and monitoring
- Root cause diagnosis of plant-wide oscillations
- Control of fuel cells.
Industrial Chemistry
- Specialty chemicals
- Flavour and fragrances
- Food and additives
- Colloids
Green Technology
- Bioprocess engineering
- Enzyme processing
- Bioseparation processes
- Renewable resources
- Biobased product development
- Generation of "bio-fuels" using bio-feedstocks
Biotechnology
- Biosensors
- Tissue Engineering
- Biopolymers
- Drug delivery
- Hydrogels
- Stem Cell
- Gene transfer
- Cell/Protein therapeutic engineering
- Genetic engineering
- Metabolic engineering
Chiral and Pharmaceutical Engineering
- Process innovation and development: Chromatographic processes e.g. SMB, chromatographic reactor
- Enantioselective extraction/ Biotransformation
- Fast-filtration technique for chiral compounds e.g., chiral membrane modules
- Nanotechnology for enantioseparations
- Crystallization
- Supercritical Fluid Technology
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