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November 2020

Invited Talk: From Carbon Dioxide and Water to Carbon-Neutral Fuels and Chemicals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
The contractual objective to limit the global temperature rise well below 2°C represents a milestone in international climate policy and requires...

Invited Talk: Plasma-Assisted CO2recycling: A Tool for Storing Solar Electricity

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
Solar electricity generation inherently suffers from intermittency and unequally distributed irradiation conditions. The conversion of solar energy...

Keynote: Solar Hydrocarbons from Air Captured Carbon Dioxide and Water

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
The value of liquid hydrocarbons is hard to overestimate. If they did not already exist, they would need to be invented. Today, mining fossil carbon...

Rocco Casagrande

Trained as a biochemist, Dr. Casagrande has spent his career combining deep scientific expertise with novel methodologies to tackle the most daunting threats facing the nation. He has led more than 50 projects to reduce the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction by guiding government investments in medicines, detection systems, and interdiction platforms. He has analyzed avenues for the possible misuse of advanced biotechnology and recommended means to reduce this risk without hampering scientific or industrial progress. Recently, Dr. Casagrande has...Read more

(Invited Talk) COVID-19 Risk Emergency Toolbox - an Integrated System for Reliable Early Alert and Effective Public Health Risk Management

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
One of the key aspects of managing efficiently the public health risk of COVID-19 is the ability to assess the extent of the contagion spread in the...

The Role of Friction in Pattern Formation in Pulsed Fluidized Beds

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
Christine Hrenya’s work beautifully demonstrates the importance of introducing the correct physics of gas-solid systems to...

Virtual Mass of an Oscillating Sphere

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
Virtual mass or added mass describes the inertia of the fluid around a submerged body that acts to resist a relative acceleration between the body...

From Ziplining to Lego Building: Novel Hydrogel Design As Stem Cell Niche to Enhance Tissue Regeneration

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
Hydrogels are attractive choices of biomaterials for serving as artificial 3D cell niche given their injectability, ease for minimally invasive...

(Invited Talk) Quantitative and Ultra-Sensitive Saliva Test with Cellphone for COVID-19

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
More than six months after the initial COVID-19 outbreak, most countries are still struggling to control COVID-19 disease transmission, and many are...

Unconventional Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2020
Introduction: Across various areas of regenerative engineering, there have been limitations with controlling cell adhesion, stem cell differentiation...

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