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Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing

Chemical Engineering

Research Faculty

Research Professor Oleg Alexeev

Oleg S. Alexeev

Research Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including surface chemistry and catalysis, reaction kinetics, nanocatalysts, and supported metal clusters.

Research Professor Salai Ammal

Salai C. Ammal

Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including computational modeling of heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis.

Paul Coman

Paul T. Coman

Research Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including development of mathematical modeling for improving the performance and safety in Li-ion batteries.

Research Professor Armin Ebner

Armin D. Ebner

Research Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electro-dialysis, hydrogen production, and hydrogen storage.

Dr. Benjamin Meekins

Benjamin H. Meekins

Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including photovoltaics, solar fuel conversion (water splitting and carbon dioxide remediation), and catalysis related to both.

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Sirivatch Shimpalee

Research Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including electrochemical engineering, fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and computational fluid dynamics.

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John Meynard M. Tengco

Assistant Research Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalyst preparation methods such as strong electrostatic adsorption, electroless deposition, and galvanic displacement, to optimize supported monometallic and multimetallic nanoparticle size, distribution, and degree of component metal interaction.

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Wenqiang Yang

Research Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering, with research interests including catalysis, computational chemistry, and multiscale modeling.

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Emma (Yanjiao) Yi

Research Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, with research interests focusing on the rational synthesis of catalysts through different methodologies, including the preparation of metal particle catalysts that range from single atoms to clusters, from 1-2 nm to larger than 2 nm particles.


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