Seminar Abstract:
An important challenge in many applications, ranging from biomedical devices to ship hulls, is the prevention of nonspecific biomolecular and microorganism attachment on surfaces. For example, nonspecific protein adsorption degrades the performance of surface-based diagnostic devices and causes an adverse effect on the healing process around implanted biomaterials. To address this challenge, our … Read the rest »
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EUV lithography, for patterning semiconductors, has made tremendous technical progress in recent years; however on a commercial cost basis, it is still years away from displacing immersion lithography combined with various integration tricks such as double exposure or sidewall spacer double patterning. Sidewall spacer double patterning, for example, has enabled accelerated scaling of … Read the rest »
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Controlling the composition and structure of materials at the nanometer scale provides unprecedented opportunities to create novel materials with properties by design. … Read the rest »
Professor Emeritus John J. McKetta invites Austin area ChE alumni for our first annual McKetta Seminar Series, showcasing the research of Professor Chris Ellison.
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Dr. Ellison will give a presentation entitled, “Manipulating Materials with Light Activated Chemistries”.
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Boxed lunches and beverages will be provided (the event is an alumni only event, free of charge)
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RSVP online by Thursday, … Read the rest »
Texas Distinguished Faculty Lectureship
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G.V. Rex Reklaitis
Gedge Distinguished Professor
School of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Launched in July 2006 with support from the NSF, over 30 industrial partners, and the four hosting universities, the Center aspires to be the national focal point for science-based development of structured organic particle-based … Read the rest »
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One of the hardest things a potential entrepreneur struggles with is when to take the leap and how to know that their idea for creating the next new thing is actually a good one.
Dr. Swahney will use his last company, Confluent Surgical, as a case study to help budding entrepreneurs evaluate their ideas in an objective … Read the rest »
In the current talk we will present our recent results on the development of alternative catalysts for H2 production. The main objective of our research is to identify catalysts to substantially reduce or replace Platinum-group metals. Our research approaches involve parallel efforts in density functional theory (DFT) calculations, surface science experiments on … Read the rest »
With the advent of high throughput biomolecular engineering techniques, it has become possible to isolate short peptides that bind to a variety of targets ranging from inorganic materials to proteins. The application of peptides as therapeutics has been hampered by the inherent susceptibility of peptides to proteases present throughout the human body. One … Read the rest »
Cockrell School of Engineering Lectureship
The pathological hallmark of more than twenty neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and the prion diseases, is the presence within the brain of plaques containing ordered protein aggregates called fibrils. It is not yet known why these structures form in some individuals and not in others, or whether the plaques … Read the rest »
This seminar topic concerns fundamental issues of cell growth and development as they relate to human disease and therapeutic intervention. Efforts are directed towards understanding human cancer as a disease of uncontrolled cell growth and development. A common theme within this biology is a rewiring of metabolism to support and drive these processes. … Read the rest »