Research Projects
Bioengineered Heparin
Project Background Heparin is an anticoagulant polysaccharide drug used to prevent blood from clotting and is critically important for modern [...]
Mobile Studio Classrooms
Professor John Wen and other faculty have developed a powerful yet inexpensive mobile studio board that puts the capability of [...]
Virtual Laparoscopic Simulator
Project Background The purpose of developing a surgical simulator is to allow surgeons and residents to train on computer generated [...]
Photocatalytic Nanotubes
Develop a catalytic surface in conjunction with LED platforms for mitigation of biological and organic substances with the purpose of [...]
Human Networking
The nature of human society is networking. Humans are unique in the sense that they are both individual and social; [...]
Self-sufficient Urban Buildings
In several regions of the world, there are problematic public water supply shortages, expansion limitations on sewer systems, natural gas [...]
Hierarchically structured catalysts
Porous catalysts are extensively used to produce chemicals and fuels, and to remove pollutants, for example from car or power [...]
Nature Inspired Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are a potentially very efficient way to convert a fuel or chemical energy vector (like hydrogen gas, H2, [...]
Integrated PV Systems and Urban Environments
Concentrating solar collectors combined with photovoltaic power generation have a much higher solar to electricity conversion efficiency than flat plate collectors. Such [...]
PEM + SO Fuel Cells
The science and technology of fuel cells (proton exchange membrane –PEM– and solid oxide–SO) need major advances to ensure their acceptance and [...]
