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Stimuli-responsive polymers respond to their environment without requiring motors, sensors, or power supplies. These materials can replace the functions of traditional machines in conditions or at scales, such as in the human body, where traditional actuators, electronics, and batteries are difficult to employ.
Climate change demands a paradigm change in the chemical industry and waste stream valorization.
Reverse osmosis modules comprised of composite polymer membranes represent a leading technology in desalination and purification of brackish water.
The covalent attachment of polymers has emerged as a powerful strategy for the preparation of multi-functional surfaces.
Current state-of-the-art composite materials are not light/strong enough for crewed missions to Mars and beyond.
Traditional methods of scientific inquiry and engineering design begin with human intelligence: Mathematical models encoding physical hypotheses are proposed, tested against experimental data and refined by fitting adjustable parameters.
We had a good fall semester.
That seems like a simple statement, but it means a lot, considering the events of the past year and a half. It is worth remarking upon as CU Boulder returned to full-time, on-campus operations.
Alumni and friends of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering generously made contributions to the department excellence fund in honor of Giving Tuesday. Nineteen donors provided $3,018 during the giving period, which ran throughout the latter half of November.
Haichao Wu of the Dan Schwartz Group is the winner of the College of Engineering and Applied Science’s 2021 Outstanding Dissertation Award for “Nanoparticle Tracking to Probe Transport in Porous Media.” This award is a recognition of the quality and excellence of Wu’s research as well as his presentation of the dissertation.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) today announced that CU Boulder researchers Richard D. Noble and Theodore Randolph have been named 2021 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.