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Catalysis of Sustainable Processes

Available projects involve the development of novel catalysts for the generation of hydrogen by splitting water with sunlight, for biomass conversion, for green industrial oxidation more...

Supervisor(s): Masters, Tony (Professor)

Nanocarbon based electrocatalysts

Using microorganisms, particularly bacterial cells, as a novel precursor to synthesize heterogeneous carbon materials as electrocatalytic catalysts for key electrochemical reactions more...

Supervisor(s): Chen, Yuan (Professor)

The Effects of Changing the Inlet Gas Temperature and Drying Atmosphere in Spray Drying on Particle Properties

In this project, the effects of changing the inlet gas temperature and drying atmosphere in spray drying on particle properties, such as the degree of crystallinity, the bulk densit more...

Supervisor(s): Langrish, Timothy (Professor)

Vitamin C as a Means of Controlling Crystallinity in Dairy Products

In this project, the minimum amount (fraction) of vitamin C that needs to be added to dairy products, such as lactose, in order to create crystalline products will be assessed.  more...

Supervisor(s): Langrish, Timothy (Professor)

The Effects of Spraying Materials into Gases Other than Air as a Way to Control Surface Coating by Proteins

In this project, an inert gas loop will be used to change the drying atmosphere from air to other gases, such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen, as a way to use these gases to control more...

Supervisor(s): Langrish, Timothy (Professor)

Progressive collapse of steel frame

This research is to develop a nonlinear dynamic computational framework to model the progressive collapse of steel frame under abnormal loads. more...

Supervisor(s): Zhang, Hao (Dr)

Soil Organic Carbon amount and turnover time in perturbated soil systems using radioactive carbon signature

The project is aimed at modeling the stock and turover time of carbon-based soil organic matter using 12C and 14C observations in non-stationary systems. The modeling foresees the u more...

Supervisor(s): Maggi, Federico (Dr)

Discrete Element Simulations of Human Crowds

In an increasingly populated world the importance of building architecture that is able to handle dense events is becoming increasingly significant. Crowd events cover a wide scope more...

Supervisor(s): Alonso-Marroquin, Fernando (Dr)

Understanding the growth of hydrodynamic instabilities in Inertial Confinement Fusion

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the USA has managed to achieve a fusion fuel gain of 1 in landmark experiments. However, the targeted gain is substantially higher than this more...

Supervisor(s): Thornber, Ben (Dr)

Nano-catalysts for carbon neutral futures: Conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals

To investigate functionalized porous nano-composites for advanced physical and chemical processes to convert CO2 to valuable chemicals from theory and computations. more...

Supervisor(s): Stampfl, Catherine (Professor)