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Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Faculty research areas

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Self-assembly, complex fluids, nanomaterials, interfacial phenomena, amphiphilic polymers
Paschalis Alexandridis

Gene therapy, tissue engineering of skin and blood vessels, controlled protein and gene delivery
Stelios T. Andreadis

Biodegradable functional polymers and nanostructures, new drug delivery systems, synthetic materials for tissue engineering

Chong Cheng

Molecular simulation, statistical thermodynamics, biopreservation
Jeffrey R. Errington

Reaction engineering, nanopowders, explosives and detonations, analysis of chemical plants
Vladimir Hlavacek

Metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, evolutionary engineering
Mattheos A.G. Koffas

Statistical physics, molecular modeling and simulation, software engineering
David A. Kofke

Heterogeneous catalysis, chemical kinetics, reaction engineering
Carl R.F. Lund

Photofunctional materials, supported catalysis
Michael W. McKittrick

Biomedical engineering, cell biomechanics, vascular engineering
Sriram Neelamegham

Transport phenomena, bioactive surfaces, biological pores, transdermal transport
Johannes M. Nitsche

Protein engineering, yeast surface display, bioinformatics, molecular dynamics simulations
Sheldon J. Park

Catalysis, surface phenomena, colloids and emulsions, biocompatible surfaces and materials
Eli Ruckenstein

Polymer and ceramics processing, rheology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
Michael E. Ryan

Hydrogen production, selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides, mercury reaction pathways, catalytic destruction of chlorinated hydrocarbons, fuel cell modeling and optimization.
Harvey G. Stenger, Jr.

Synthesis and application of nanoparticles, reactor modeling, computational chemistry, particle nucleation and growth
Mark T. Swihart

Lithium battery cells for implantable applications, development of power sources for implantable cardiac defibrillators

Esther S. Takeuchi

Materials

Marina Tsianou

Tissue engineering, embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, viral vectors, biochemical engineering
Emmanouhl S. Tzanakakis

HIGHLIGHT

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In addition to cutting-edge research, UB chemical and biological engineers also contribute the pedagogical advancement of their fields by producing valuable teaching tools such as a computer program that performs research-quality simulations of molecular interactions.

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THE FACES OF CBE

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PhD program

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