{"id":49297,"date":"2021-11-03T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-uw-engineering.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=49297"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:56:27","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/departments\/chemical-biological-engineering\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"acf-hero block_7a12bc12304a4d518de5c169893f1113 position-relative alignfull track-hero alignfull mb-5   sticky-top\" >\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"hero-container d-flex bg-pattern-secondary hero-spacing-medium has-navigation\" >\r\n        <div class=\"container-xxl  d-flex flex-column flex-lg-row justify-content-center justify-content-lg-between align-items-start align-items-lg-center\">\r\n                            <div class=\"hero-heading text-white text-left\">\r\n                    <h1 class=\"text-white fw-bold m-0 h1\"><span class=\"micro-title text-uppercase d-block\">Chemical &amp; 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CBE researchers address the most pressing challenges facing society by developing approaches to sustainably produce new fuels and chemicals, combat the plastic pollution crisis, create new therapeutic molecules and materials, optimize energy infrastructure, computationally design new materials and chemical processes, understand transport in complex environments, engineer bacteria to produce biofuels, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>                                                                                            <\/div>\r\n                                    <\/div>\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                                                                                \r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><div class=\"acf-card block_bf702859984870be858e2a64a1487e1f position-relative track-card alignfull my-5 py-5 has-background-image\"  style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bg-pattern-gray.svg);\" >\r\n    <div class=\"container-xxl\">\r\n        \r\n\t<div class=\"row flex-column flex-lg-row align-items-lg-center align-items-start mb-5 acf-block-part-introduction \">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"text-start col-12 \">\r\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"section-title h2\">Research focus areas<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"section-paragraph col pt-2 text-start \">Our research activities are broadly divided into the areas below. Each area encompasses multiple core faculty and affiliate faculty (faculty who are primarily associated with other departments but advise CBE graduate students). Faculty research interests are highly interdisciplinary; consequently, most faculty have interests that span multiple areas.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mt-1 text-start\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/2023_1-pg-FACRESEARCHAREAS-w-links-1.pdf\" class=\"fw-bold\" >Summary of faculty research areas<i class=\"fas fa-arrow-right ms-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n        <div class=\"row row-cols-1 row-cols-sm-1 row-cols-md-2 row-cols-lg-4\">\r\n                                                <div class=\"col mb-4\">\r\n                        <div class=\"card h-101 shadow-sm-sm\">\r\n                                                            <div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 card-img-top-overlay\">\r\n                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" 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stretched-link fw-semibold\" >\r\n                                            Catalysis, Surface Science and Reaction Engineering                                        <\/a>\r\n                                                                                                <\/div>\r\n                                                    <\/div>\r\n                    <\/div>\r\n                                    <div class=\"col mb-4\">\r\n                        <div class=\"card h-101 shadow-sm-sm\">\r\n                                                            <div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9 card-img-top-overlay\">\r\n                                    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Materials_Complex-Fluids_Transp.-Processes-512x288.webp\" class=\"card-img not-transparent\" alt=\"Close up of bubbles in liquid\" 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