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Research Activities at the Polymer and Separations Research (PolySep) Laboratory

 

Our surface engineering approach  Fundamentals and applications
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Research Areas

 

 

 

Specific Research programs

 

 

A) Surface Engineering

 

(Surface nano-structuring and surface chemistry)

 

 

 

 

 

Polymer Grafting; Silylation; Surface Topology; Surface Wetting; Surface Nucleation and Crystallization of Mineral Salts; chemical sensors.

B) Surface Crystallizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Impact of surface topology and chemistry on surface crystallization

- Selective crystallization through surface nano-patterning

- Kinetics of surface crystallization

 

C) Separation Processes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Membranes:  Pervaporation; Ultrafiltration; Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration; Polymeric Sorption Resins; Size Exclusion Chromatography

 

 

D) Polymer Chain Dynamics

 

Dynamics of adsorbed and grafted polymer chains

 

E) Electroactive Polymers

 

 

Electroactive polymer strip in action

 

F) Cognitive Neural Networks

 

 

 

Estimation of physicochemical properties; combinatorial approaches to classification and ranking of pharmaceutical compounds and chemometric analysis of therapeutic drugs; process analysis.

 

 

 

G) Environmental Analysis

 

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  • Modeling of Contaminant Partitioning in the Multimedia Environment
  • Bioaccumulation of hydrophobic toxins
  • Contaminant Transport in the Soil Matrix
  • Chemical Volatilization from Shallow Water Bodies
  • Intermedia Transport Factors for Toxic Air Pollutants

 

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12/27/2005

 

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