Our research is at the leading edge of Chemical Engineering, Material Science and Engineering and Industrial Production Engineering and focuses on broad strategic areas of interdisciplinary research that have a high societal impact: Energy Production, Composites and Bio-inspired Materials and Systems, and Industrial Processes.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Fluidized Bed Reactors, Adsorption Plants, Soft Matter, Environmental Protection and Process Safety, Pollutant Transport, Combustion and Catalysis, Bioengineering are the major research themes at DICMaPI.
- Environmental Protection and Pollution mitigation
- Chemical Process Safety
- Biodiesel Production from Algal Biomass
- Soft Matter Modeling and Simulation, Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Combustion and Laser Diagnostics
- Chemical Kinetics
- Combustion Synthesized Nanosized Products
- Pollutant Emission
- Industrial Safety
- Industrial Catalysis
- Modelling of Polymer Rheology
MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Inorganics, both ceramic and metallic, and polymers and composites, from the synthesis to the final applications in the fields of Medicine and Pharmaceutics, Food Packaging, Energy, Housing, Impact Protection are major research themes at DICMaPI.
- Physical Properties of Polymer/Blowing Agent Mixtures
- Foams and Foaming Processes
- Polymeric Nanocomposites
- Organic-Inorganic Hybrids
- Natural polymers, Biopolymers and Bioplastics
- Nanocomposite Polymer Blends
- Materials Engineering
- Chemical Functionalization of Polymers
- Polymer Synthesis
- Molecular design and Synthesis of Polymeric Nanostructures
- Gas and Vapor Sorption and Mass Transport in Polymers
- Interfacial Properties of Polymer/Gas Solutions
- Barrier Properties of Polymers for Packaging
- Super-absorbing Polymers
- Polyelectrolytes Membranes for Fuel Cells
- Durability of Polymer-based Systems
- Transport Phenomena in Polymer Processing
- Biodegradable polymers
- Polymer blends
- Multiphase materials
- Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polymer-Low Molecular Weight Compound Mixtures
- Corrosion and protection
- Surface treatments
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION ENGINEERING