Robert M. Langer Chemical Engineering
Graduate student Symposium

Friday, December 2

8:30 – 9:00

Breakfast

Session 1
Becton Faculty Lounge
 

9:00 – 9:20

The Effect of Nanoparticles on the Structure of Clay Suspensions

Jason Baird
 

9:20 – 9:40

The Influence of Ambient Flow on Drop Coalescence

Piero Santoro
 

9:40 – 10:00

Fibronectin / Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Assemblies:
Film Formation and Cell Attachment Studies

Corinne Wittmer
 

10:00-10:20

Advancing High-Throughput Creation of Designer Molecular Receptors

Benjamin Boese
 

10:20 – 10:40

Break

Session 2

10:40 – 11:00

Force Interactions Profiles between Cryptosporidium Parvum
Oocysts and Silica Surfaces

Tonya Byrd
 

11:00 – 11:20

Desalination Using a Novel Ammonia-Carbon Dioxide Forward
 Osmosis Process: Evaluation of Process Performance

Jeffrey McCutcheon
 

11:20 – 11:40

Influence of Chloramine Speciation on NDMA formation:
Implications for NDMA formation pathways
Marie Schreiber
 

11:40 – 12:00

Assessing Recyclability and Design of Multi-Element Products

Jeremiah Johnson
 

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00

Keynote Speaker

Dunham Laboratory, Room 220

Exploration of Macromolecular Self Assembly
in Thin Films:
From Electrochemistry to Drug Delivery
 

Dr. Paula Hammond
Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 

2:00 – 2:20

Break

Session 3
Becton Faculty Lounge
 

2:20 – 2:40

Obtaining Molecular and Thermal Diffusion Coefficients from
Transient Separation Data in a Thermogravitational Column

Kjetil Braathen Haugen
 

2:40 – 3:00

Catalytic Performance of Vanadium Incorporated MCM-41 Catalysts for the
Partial Oxidation of Methane to Formaldehyde

Guoan Du
 

3:00 – 3:20

CO Methanation on Cobalt Incorporated and Impregnated MCM-41 Catalysts

Chuan Wang
 

3:20 – 3:40

Growth and Reactivity of Palladium Oxide Thin Films

Jun Wang
 

3:40 – 4:00

Electrochemical Promotion of Methane Oxidation over
Pd/YSZ Catalyst

William Schwartz
 

4:00 – 5:00

Reception