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Dr. Moss is the Interim Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on understanding the role of amyloid-β protein (Aβ) aggregation in Alzheimer’s disease and inhibiting Aβ aggregation as a therapeutic approach to this widespread and devastating illness.
A Distinguished Professor Emeritus, his research interests include rheology of suspensions, polymer processing, and composite materials.
Research interests include process control, estimation and diagnosis, dynamic modeling and optimization.
Awarded the Order of the Palmetto and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, his research interests include heat transfer and fluid flow.
Research interests include immunoengineering, biomaterials, and gene and protein delivery.
Research interests include nanomaterials, catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling
Research interests include tissue engineering, biomimetic materials, bioinspired nanocomposites, peptide-mediated drug delivery.
Research interests include cell and tissue engineering, bio-MEMs and microfluidics, non-viral gene delivery, and nano-biotechnology.
A CoEE Endowed Chair of the Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity, his research interests include catalysis, storage and reduction technology, and hydrogen storage.
Dr. Liu’s research group is interested in biosensor development and biomarker discovery using nanomaterials, with a focus on their clinical applications on in vitro diagnostics, point-of-care tests, and liquid biopsy for cancer and infectious diseases.
Senior Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education Research interests include supercritical fluids, ionic liquids, green chemical engineering, and research based learning.
Research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, bimetallic catalyst synthesis, and reaction kinetics.
Research interests include: Electrochemistry, catalysis, materials design, surface chemistry, energy conversion and storage, and electrochemical synthesis.
A Carolina Distinguished Professor and author of Corrosion Engineering, his research interests include electrochemical power sources, industrial metal finishing, and corrosion.
A CoEE Endowed Chair in Renewalble Fuels, his research interests include catalysis preparation and characterization, adsorption theory, and reaction kinetics.
A L.M. Weisiger Professor of Engineering, Carolina Distinguished Professor, and Graduate Director of the department of Chemical Engineering, his research interests include hydrogen storage systems, targeted drug delivery, gas separation and purification.
Research includes the structure, dynamics, and self-assembly of soft materials, with an emphasis on anisotropic components capable of leading to new, tunable macroscopic properties.
A Professor Emeritus, his research interests include chemical process systems and advanced professional engineering education.
Research interests include Bio-nano hybrid and biomimetic materials, charge-driven self-assembly, structure-dynamics relations in polymer networks, hydrogels, soft glassy materials and living cells, microfabrication and 3D Bioprinting and tissue engineering, and collective cell migration
Research interests include biological interfaces, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics of simple and complex fluids.
A Distinguished Professor Emeritus, his research interests include separations modeling and chemistry, filtration, and extraction chemistry.
A Westinghouse Distinguished Scientist, his research interests include fuel cells, batteries, electrodeposition, corrosion, and numerical methods.
The Undergraduate Director of Chemical Engineering Research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, surface science, catalyst design, and in-situ vibrational spectroscopy.
Research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, nanomaterials science and engineering, and fluid transport properties.
Dr. Ortiz-Hernandez's background involves the study of heterogeneous catalytic systems under reaction conditions.
Works with Dr. James A. Ritter's group.
A Research Professor, his research interests include surface chemistry and catalysis, reaction kinetics, nanocatalysts, and supported metal clusters.
Research interests include heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis.
Research interests include heterogeneous catalysis, catalyst synthesis, and reaction kinetics.
A Research Professor, his research interests include electro-dialysis, hydrogen production, and hydrogen storage.
Dr. Karakalos is director of the XPS facility. His research interests include surface science, material science and engineering, heterogeneous catalysis, and reaction kinetics.
Research interests include photovoltaics, solar fuel conversion (water splitting and carbon dioxide remediation), and catalysis related to both.
Research interests include electrochemical engineering, fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and computational fluid dynamics.
Dr. Besmann's research interests are related to thermochemical experiment and modeling for nuclear fuel development and in-reactor behavior, and development of advanced nuclear waste forms. Professor, Mechanical Engineering.
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Savannah River National Laboratory
Associate Director, Office of Economic Engagement
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Professor and Vice President of Research, Woosuk University, Jeonju, Korea.
Director of the NanoCenter Educational Foundation and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
