Abstract: Biodiesel is produced by esterification of fatty acids or trans-esterification of glycerides or the former followed by the latter for low-cost feed-stocks containing free fatty acids (FFA…
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Sep 19, 2013
Abstract: Sensing transduction and actuation in the next generation of “smart” micro-/nanoscale devices will require exquisite control and manipulation of interfacial functionality and topography.…
Sep 16, 2013
Abstract: All microorganisms need to respond and adapt to their environment in order to survive and one of the ways to escape from challenging environments is to migrate. Chemotaxis is the biased…
Sep 05, 2013
Abstract: We have synthesized a family of novel self-assembling pH and temperature sensitive multiblock cationic and anionic copolymers with a variety of nanoarchitectures. The copolymers exhibit pH…
Sep 03, 2013
Abstract: The design of vaccines and therapeutics to address infectious diseases is fraught with challenges ranging from the need for cold storage to poor immunogenicity to the need for multiple…
Aug 29, 2013
Abstract: This two-part talk gives an overview of Model-Based Control from Academic and Industrial perspective. The first part of this talk focuses on giving an industrial perspective on Advanced…
Aug 22, 2013
Abstract: Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology are important emerging areas in biology. Metabolic engineering deals with performing genetic alterations to a wild type strain i.e. a strain as…
Aug 19, 2013
Abstract: There has been considerable work on reactive separations especially for reactive distillation and reactive chromatography. Absorption accompanied by reaction is also the subject of…
Aug 12, 2013
Abstract: Cyanobacteria are a group of photosynthetic prokaryotes that inhabit in diverse ecosystems with simple oxygen (O2) evolving mechanism similar to that in higher plants. They are believed to…
Aug 12, 2013
Abstract: Cyanobacteria are a group of photosynthetic prokaryotes that inhabit in diverse ecosystems with simple oxygen (O2) evolving mechanism similar to that in higher plants. They are believed to…
Aug 08, 2013
Abstract: A large class of amorphous or disordered materials ranging f rom “hard” bulk-metallic glasses to “soft” foams exhibit strain localisation when s ubject to a sufficiently large defor- mation…
Aug 01, 2013
Abstract : Pollination soil formation nitrogen cycling and disease regulation are examples of ecosystem services which form the very basis of all human activities. Despite their critical importance…
Jul 25, 2013
Abstract : There has been a shift of focus towards diesel and lean burn engines for automobiles because of their higher fuel mileage. However NOx abatement is a challenging task under excess air…
Jul 18, 2013
Abstract : Micron-size gas bubbles encapsulated by a nanometer layer of proteins lipids and other surfactants are injected into a patient’s body to improve ultrasound imaging. Currently two such…
Jul 15, 2013
Abstract In the noisy cellular environment many mRNA and protein species occur at low integer molecular counts and hence are subject to large stochastic fluctuations in copy numbers over time. Far…
Jul 11, 2013
Depleting carbon based energy resources and shortage of energy due to ever increasing demand is driving the research towards sustainable renewable energy sources. Coupled with this problem is the…
Jul 11, 2013
Depleting carbon based energy resources and shortage of energy due to ever increasing demand is driving the research towards sustainable renewable energy sources. Coupled with this problem is the…
May 30, 2013
Abstract: Diminishing fossil fuels and increase in the demands of energy worldwide has led to the subsequent development of innovative technologies for sustainable energy supply. Some of the key…
May 23, 2013
Abstract : The advent of high-speed computers has brought about a great change in the pace of development of new chemical engineering processes making Computer aided design and simulation as one of…
May 17, 2013
Spray drying is used for the manufacture of many products including ceramics foods and detergents. Historically these processes and product properties have been optimized empirically. As engineers…