January 31, 2018
Researchers in Michel Barsoum's Layered Solids Group discovered MXenes unexpectedly expand when compressed in the presence of water. This will contribute to a better understanding of how MXenes can be processed and opens a new avenue of study surrounding them.
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January 31, 2018
Congratulations to Valerie Niemann, CBE senior, on being selected as a semi-finalist for a Fulbright Study/Research grant to Switzerland! As a semi-finalist, Valerie has been chosen by the Fulbright U.S. National Screening Committees as among the top of approximately 10,000 applicants nationwide, and her application has been passed to the host country for final selection in the coming months. This is quite an achievement and we are delighted for her to advance to the next stage!
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January 30, 2018
On Saturday, October 7, 2017, the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering hosted its fifth Alumni Annual Event. CBE has been taking the initiative to reunite alumni with the department, while creating a community among students, faculty, and alumni.
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January 30, 2018
The symposium, hosted by FMC in University City, focused on sustainability with a variety of posters from local chemical engineering students focused on batteries, seaweed, composites, films, plant based materials and nanofibers.
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January 29, 2018
Hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements on Earth and an exceptionally clean fuel source. While it is making its way into the fuel cells of electric cars, busses and heavy equipment, its widespread use is hampered by the expensive gas-separation process required to produce pure hydrogen. But that process could soon become more efficient and cost-effective thanks to a discovery by an international team of researchers, led in the U.S. by Drexel University. The group has uncovered exceptionally efficient gas separation properties in a nanomaterial called MXene that could be incorporated into the membranes used to purify hydrogen.
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January 22, 2018
How do ideas from “The Terminator” make their way into new technology for WiFi access points? How can augmented reality be used to visualize how wireless signals travel to help with both education and research? How are exciting new Drexel facilities, with advanced radio testbeds and sensor technologies, enabling exciting new applications in the developing Internet of Things (IoT)?
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January 19, 2018
In a perfect world, blood vessels would run straight as freeways, channeling blood consistently and efficiently through the human body. Instead, they switch directions or branch off like country paths as they wend through the circulatory system, and each of those junctures impacts blood flow. In turn, blood flow impacts, among other things, the way glucose is metabolized in vascular cells, with implications for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other vascular pathologies. Scientists don’t know exactly why this occurs.
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January 17, 2018
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January 11, 2018
Earlier this winter, Colby Mills-King ’19 attended a dinner reception on campus surrounded by strangers whose last names were strikingly similar to the scholarships being awarded that night. Amid the “fancy food and nice dishes and laughing and stuff,” it didn’t occur to Mills-King that those strangers were seated with him for a reason. After he won two scholarships, including the prestigious Anthony and Antoinette T. Caneris Award, Mills-King realized that had been part of the plan all along.
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January 09, 2018
After transitioning from the College of Engineering into the Office of the Provost through a fellowship program, Timothy Kurzweg is ready to support undergraduate students across Drexel University in the pursuit of success.
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January 09, 2018
One in 25 hospital patients will contract an infection during their stay. Hospitals are well aware of the communicable diseases often transmitted among patients and take many precautions to reduce the risk. But new research indicates that patients might actually be exposed to these infections on their way to the hospital.
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January 05, 2018
Maureen Tang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, has received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award for her research on failure mechanisms in advanced lithium-ion batteries.
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January 01, 2018
The Chemical and Biological Engineering Department is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2017 CBE Awards.
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