2019年6月6日Dr. Pratim Biswas学术报告通知
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报告题目NANOPARTICLE AEROSOL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:  APPLICATIONS IN ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND MEDICINE

报告时间:201966日(周四)下午230

报告地点:实验16110会议室

主讲人:Pratim Biswas

Member, National Academy of Engineering
The Lucy and Stanley Lopata Professor
Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis

Aerosols, particles that are suspended in a gaseous medium, are ubiquitous and found in nature and engineered systems.  They occur in a range of sizes, shapes and compositions and are relevant to important phenomena such as climate change, human health, environmental and energy processes.  These particles are both inadvertently and intentionally produced in a variety of systems.  The inadvertently produced particles maybe problematic and their emissions need to be controlled.  The intentionally produced particles have applications in a variety of fields, and form the backbone of the field of nanotechnology. The presentation will describe an understanding of the formation of these particles in gas-phase processes, and report on recent scientific advances.  A description of aerosol science and engineering that enables fundamental studies both mechanistically, and by the availability of well controlled particles to understand property-function relationships will be presented.

The second part of the talk will focus on aerosol science and engineering enabling environmental, energy and medical technologies.  For the inadvertently produced particles, approaches to develop effective control technologies to prevent emissions to the atmosphere will be described.  The presentation will describe the use of nanostructured sorbents and on strategies of charging nanoparticles for their effective capture.  The ability to use the fundamental knowledge of aerosol science and engineering, coupled with reaction engineering principles to produce particles with strictly controlled sizes, morphologies and composition in aerosol reactors will be described.  The use of semiconducting oxides for both photo-catalytic and light harvesting (solar energy) applications will be discussed.  Examples will include the use of nanomaterials in environmental technologies for remediation of various pollutants and conversion of carbon dioxide to value-added products.  Innovative applications in the area of medicine from cancer treatment to delivery to the brain will also be discussed.   

专家简介:

Dr. Pratim Biswas received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1980; his M.S. degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981 and his doctoral degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1985.  He joined Washington University in St. Louis in August 2000 as the inaugural Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor and Director of the Environmental Engineering Science Program. In 2006, he became the Chair of the newly created Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.  He has won several Teaching and Research Awards: was the recipient of the 1991 Kenneth Whitby Award given for outstanding contributions by the American Association for Aerosol Research; and the Neil Wandmacher Teaching Award of the College of Engineering in 1994; the David Sinclair Award by the American Association for Aerosol Research in 2013, and the Lawrence K. Cecil Award in Environmental Chemical Engineering by AIChE in 2015; and the Fuchs Award by the International Aerosol Assembly in 2018.  In 2019, he was elected to the prestigious US National Academy of Engineering.    He is a Fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research, the Saint Louis Science Academy and the International Aerosol Research Assembly.  His research and educational interests are in aerosol science and technology, nanoparticle technology, energy and environmental nanotechnology, air quality and pollution control and the thermal sciences.  He has published more than 375 refereed journal papers with his 52 PhD graduates, and presented more than 200 invited talks all across the globe.