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Research areas
Sustainable Carbon Materials; Industrial Decarbonization; Interrelationships between energy use, hydrocarbon use, materials production, and climate change; CO2-free conversion of natural gas and hydrocarbons to materials with positive clean hydrogen production; theoretical, computational, experimental, technoeconomic, and life-cycle analysis of: scalable liquid-phase processing of carbon nanotubes (CNTs); material recycling; behavior of individual CNTs in water and other liquids; rheology and phase behavior of concentrated liquid phases of CNTs (networks; lyotropic liquid crystals); rheology and phase behavior of functionalized CNTs in liquids; scalable synthesis of CNTs; scalable separation of metallic vs. semiconductor CNTs; fiber spinning CNTs from solutions; fabrication of transparent, conductive films of CNTs; applications of CNTs as fuel cell electrodes; applications of CNTs in biological systems; new materials with high electrical and thermal conductivity; purification, solution phase behavior, and material processing of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), graphene, and hexagonal boron nitride; rheology and phase behavior of oilfield fluids; fluid mechanics and rheology of polymer solutions; visualization of flowing DNA molecules; free-surface and interfacial flows; flow, blood rheology, hemolysis, and thrombosis in blood pumps; response of white and red blood cells to strain and stress; stabilized Galerkin/finite element methods for viscoelastic flow; rheology of semi-flexible polymer molecules; DNA condensation; emulsion rheology.