March 2013 - Che-student-staff-list

March 2013 School Newsletter
by Farmus, Cristina D 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Faculty Recognition Nicholas Delgass, the Maxine Spencer Nichols Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the AIChE. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/HomepageFeatures/delgass-elected-aiche-f… Graduate Student Recognition 2013 Magoon Award * Nathan B. Davis * Laura J. Hirshfield * Daniel Pohlman 2013 Outstanding Service and Scholarship Award: * Aniruddha Kelkar 2013 CETA (Committee Education of Teaching Assistants) Award: * Emre Gencer GPRI Fellowship * Emre Gencer ChE Faculty Lecture Award for 2012: Julie Renner, given on the basis of academic accomplishments during graduate work. The Seminar for this award has been scheduled for April 23rd at 9 a.m. in G140 2012 Research Publication Award of the School of Chemical Engineering, selected based on citation counts obtained from the Web of Science: * Ford, Grayson M., Guo, Qijie, Agrawal, Rakesh , Hillhouse, Hugh W., Earth Abundant Element Cu2Zn(Sn1-xGex)S-4 Nanocrystals for Tunable Band Gap Solar Cells: 6.8% Efficient Device Fabrication, CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 23 (10), 2626-2629, (2011), 10.1021/cm2002836 * Young, Jamey D., Shastri, Avantika A. , Stephanopoulos, Gregory , Morgan, John A., Mapping photoautotrophic metabolism with isotopically nonstationary C-13 flux analysis, METABOLIC ENGINEERING, 13 (6), 656-665 (2011) 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.08.002 * Gary, Dana J., Lee, Hoyoung , Sharma, Rahul , Lee, Jae-Sung , Kim, Youngwook , Cui, Zheng Yun , Jia, Di , Bowman, Valorie D. , Chipman, Paul R. , Wan, Lei , Zou, Yi Mao, Guangzhao , Park, Keunchil , Herbert, Brittney-Shea , Konieczny, Stephen F. , Won, You-Yeon, Influence of Nano-Carrier Architecture on in Vitro siRNA Delivery Performance and in Vivo Biodistribution: Polyplexes vs Micelleplexes, ACS NANO, 5 (5), 3493-3505 (2011), 10.1021/nn102540y * Lee, Wen-Sheng, Zhang, Rong , Akatay, M. Cem , Baertsch, Chelsey D. , Stach, Eric A. , Ribeiro, Fabio H. , Delgass, W. Nicholas, Differences in Catalytic Sites for CO Oxidation and Propylene Epoxidation on Au Nanoparticles, ACS CATALYSIS, 1(10), 1327-1330, 10.1021/cs200373f Staff Recognition - The deadline for the 2013 ChE Staff Excellence Award is March 29. Please take the time to send in your nominations as none have been received to date. Let me know if you need a copy of the rules or the forms. Miscellaneous - US News & World Report published their annual rankings of graduate programs on March 12, 2013. Eight of the College of Engineering disciplines ranked in the top 10, up from five last year. Once again, Purdue's engineering disciplines all ranked in the top 25. ChE is ranked #13, up from #14 last year. Ranking Summary: Unit 2014 Ranking (Published March, 2013) 2013 Ranking (Published March, 2012) College #8 #10 tied with Cornell ABE #1 #1 AAE #6 #6 CE #6 #6 tied with MIT ME #8 #9 tied with Cornell NE #8 tied with Penn State #11 tied with Oregon State CmpE #10 #11 EE #10 #10 tied with Princeton IE #10 #15 ChE #13 tied with Carnegie Mellon & U Illinois #14 tied with Carnegie Mellon & Northwestern MSE #17 tied with U Minnesota and U Wisconsin-Madison #14 tied with Carnegie Mellon EEE #17 tied with Duke, Rice, U Wisconsin-Madison & Yale #19 tied with Penn State & U Minnesota BME #23 tied with Harvard, U Minnesota & U Virginia #23 tied with U Minnesota, U Virginia, U Wisconsin-Madison Upcoming Events * Graduate Students Conversation with the Head - April 3, 2013, 12.00 to 1.00 pm in FRNY 3059 * Women in ChE Seminar - April 10, 2013 * Fundamentals of Engineering Exam - April 10, 2013 * Kelly Lectures - April 16, 17, 2013 * Senior Banquet - April 25, 2013, PMU, West Faculty Lounge * EV Grand Prix - April 27, 2013 * Faculty retreat - May 6, 2013 Please send me information suitable for inclusion in future newsletters. Regards, Cristina Cristina Farmus Administrative Director Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765 494 0027 cfarmus(a)purdue.edu<mailto:cfarmus@purdue.edu>

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Atom Downtime - Wednesday 8-9pm
by Harrington, Michael P 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Hi, ECN needs to update and patch Atom as part of routine maintenance - since it is Spring Break and most are not here this is a good time for such work. The current plan is to begin the work at 8pm Wednesday evening (tomorrow) - and they estimate it will be finished around 9pm. You should make sure you have logged out of your computer by 7:55pm tomorrow night. If your mail is hosted on atom you won't have access during that period - if you use atom to send mail (you shouldn't but some old clients may be set that way) you won't be able to send mail which it is down. Lastly - some mail delivery will be unavailable during that time. If you have any questions please send them to cheq(a)ecn.purdue.edu -Mike ******************** Mike Harrington Computer Facilities Manager Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765-494-6428 mph(a)purdue.edu

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Candidate Seminar Announcement - C Gounaris
by Ewing, Virginia G 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

REMINDER -- Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Faculty Candidate SEMINAR Dr. Chrysanthos Gounaris Princeton University "Microporous Materials Informatics: Computer Algorithms to Elucidate Structure-Function Relationships" Thursday, March 7, 2013 9:00-10:30 a.m. FRNY 3059 Abstract: Due to their shape-selective properties, microporous materials are being routinely utilized for separations and catalysis applications. Zeolites, a notable example, have evolved to a market in excess of $2 billion per year, and the recent research attention to metal-organic frameworks is expected to lead to additional commercial applications. With the hundreds of distinct structures that have now been synthesized, as well as the millions that have been hypothesized, the selection space for adsorbent materials has become too big to explore thoroughly via experimental techniques. To that end, robust computational frameworks are required to swiftly analyze structures and perform high-throughput screening of large databases in order to identify the most promising candidate materials for a given application. In this seminar, we will discuss innovative modeling approaches and the use of well-established computer algorithms, such as nonlinear optimization solvers among others, to characterize microporous materials and identify their functionality. We will start by demonstrating our characterization frameworks, ZEOMICS and MOFomics, which geometrically describe the three-dimensional porous networks of such materials. We will then address gas separations applications of industrial interest (e.g., air separation, carbon capture from flue gas) and predict the most promising materials to achieve selectivity. Next, we will focus on catalytic selectivity and demonstrate the ability of microporous materials to preferentially produce certain products over others as well as their ability to induce certain reaction pathways within a larger reaction network. Finally, we will discuss current research efforts to elucidate the diffusion anisotropy of microporous materials, as well as present interesting open questions in the area.

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