Chemical engineering research mesoscale

Transport and reaction will continue to be the core of chemical engineering in the twenty-first century, but research in chemical engineering must change in order to adapt to the economic demands and play an important role in the process of integration of cross disciplines (Li, 2008). The research of transport and reaction in mesoscale becomes the forefront of chemical engineering research in the twenty-first century, while the regulation of the structure of nanoscale materials to microstructure of molecules of the fluid and the effect of transport on the catalytic properties are the key... 

Three major intellectual frontiers for chemical engineers in bioprocessing are the design of bioreactors for the culture of plant and animal cells, the development of control systems along with the needed biosensors and analytical instraments, and the development of processes for separating and purifying products. A critical component in each of these three research areas is the need to relate the micro-scale to the mesoscale. 

Oleg Borodin works as a scientist at the Electrochemistry Branch of the Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD since 2011. After obtained a Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 2000 he worked in the area of multiscale modeling of liquid, ionic liquid and polymer electrolytes for battery and double layer capacitor applications, modeling of energetic composite materials, polymers in solutions, and polymer nanocomposites. He coauthored more than a hundred publications and four book chapters. His modeling efforts focus on the scales from electronic to atomistic and mesoscale. 

In this chapter, we focus on the core issues of surface/interface structure and interaction under mesoscale based on the phenomena in mesoscale of heterogenous catalysis (mainly on mesoporous Ti02), fluid transportation, wetting, nanofriction, and protein adsorption (Fig. 1). We propose two key factors, which are surface chemical property and surface roughness these two are very critical for material and chemical—biological engineering. To research these objects, we need to combine simulation, AFM measurement, and adsorption experiment methods. 

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