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Virtual Graduate Seminar Series - Hosted by Northeastern University

AIChE and Northeastern University Department of Chemical Engineering have collaborated to deliver graduate level webinars for everyone. This series presents research from various distinguished guest lecturers from other universities. This series is in progress.

Organic Aqueous Flow Batteries for Massive Electrical Energy Storage

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, February 10, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EST
The ability to store large amounts of electrical energy is of increasing importance with the growing fraction of electricity generation from intermittent renewable sources such as wind and solar...

3D Printing End-Functionalized Polymer Conjugates to Fabricate Spatially Organized Biomaterials

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, February 17, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EST
Biodegradable polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering can be functionalized with specific chemistries to direct desired cellular behavior and matrix formation. These scaffolds are typically modified...

A Multi-Scale Approach to Plant Specialized Metabolic Engineering

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, February 24, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EST
Our research is focused on cellular engineering and design of bioprocesses using plant-based systems. Plants produce sophisticated small molecules that play key roles in defense against predators and...

Active Colloidal Fluids: A New Paradigm in Self- Assembly

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, March 17, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EDT
Flocks of birds and schools of fish are familiar examples of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between self-propelled (active) individuals lead to coherent motion on a scale much...

Engineering Approaches to Understand Functional Connectivity in Neocortex

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, March 31, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EDT
The mammalian neocortex is a crowning achievement of evolution. It is astronomically complex, with around 100 billion computational elements, each of which is staggeringly intricate by itself, and on...

Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems

Archived Webinar
Friday, April 9, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EDT
Understanding and repairing complex biological systems, such as the brain, requires technologies for systematically observing and controlling these systems. We are discovering new molecular...

Creating Inclusive Spaces in the Curriculum to Improve the Classroom Climate

Archived Webinar
Friday, April 16, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EDT
In this Distinguished Lecture for the Department of Chemical Engineering, Professor Matt Lee, PhD, from the Human Services Program at Northeastern will discuss his life, career, and lifelong...

Engineered Autonomous Control of Metabolic Pathways

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, April 7, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EDT
Microbial systems offer the opportunity to produce a wide variety of chemical compounds in a sustainable fashion. Economical production, however, requires processes that operate with high titer,...

Metal Electrodes: The Future of Cost-Effective Storage of Electrical Energy

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, April 14, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EDT
The levelized cost of electric power generated from renewable wind and solar resources have fallen, continuously over the last decade. This trend is fueling optimism about humanity’s ability to...

Colloidal Crystals and Entropic Bonding

Archived Webinar
Wednesday, March 10, 2021,
12:00pm to 1:00pm
EST
Entropy is typically associated with disorder; yet, the counterintuitive notion that particles with no interactions other than excluded volume might self-assemble from a fluid phase into an ordered...

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