Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes

科学和技术中心对环境负责的二氧化碳工艺，由约瑟夫M。北卡罗来纳州大学的DeSimone和Ruben G.北卡罗来纳州州立大学Carbonell支持多学科研究计划，以建立必要的基本理解，使液体和超临界二氧化碳（CO2）在大量的关键制造和服务过程中取代水和有机溶剂。 该中心还支持一系列教育活动，包括为本科生和研究生提供合作和创新过程技能的新课程，以及开发K-12教育模块。该中心围绕四个研究重点领域组织：可压缩介质中的界面和胶体科学;分子热力学和计算机模拟;速率和传输过程;化学和催化。 重点将放在发展的理解，涉及液体和超临界CO2的表面和界面现象，设计与CO2相容的表面活性剂的目标，构建理论分子间的潜力，允许在CO2为基础的系统的过程模拟，了解这些系统中的动力学，运输和流变性能，以及设计以CO2为溶剂的高效化学反应途径和化学过程。预计该中心将对开发环境友好的CO2作为溶剂产生重大影响，以取代聚合物合成，薄膜旋涂，纺织品染色，清洁和染色等工业重要工艺中的水性和有机溶剂。由39名成员组成的调查小组包括北卡罗来纳州大学的10名教师，北卡罗来纳州州立大学的13名教师，德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的5名教师，北卡罗来纳州农业技术大学（一所历史悠久的黑人大学）的5名教师和威尼斯大学（意大利）的一名教师。 来自国家实验室（橡树岭、PNNL、洛斯阿拉莫斯）的五名研究人员也将参加。 技术转移到工业将通过与现有的美国国家航空航天局/NCSU凯南中心的16个工业合作伙伴进行互动，以利用CO2在制造业和分离研究计划在UT奥斯汀的30个合作伙伴。 每年约有13名博士后，31名研究生和19名本科生参加。

The Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Carbon Dioxide Processes, directed by Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina, and Ruben G. Carbonell, North Carolina State University, supports a multidisciplinary research program to establish the fundamental understanding necessary to enable liquid and supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) to replace aqueous and organic solvents in a large number of key manufacturing and service processes. The Center also supports a range of educational activities including a novel program for undergraduate and graduate students in collaboration and innovation process skills and the development of K-12 education modules.The Center is organized around four research thrust areas: interfacial and colloid science in compressible media; molecular thermodynamics and computer simulations; rate and transport processes; and chemistry and catalysis. Emphasis will be placed on development of an understanding of surface and interfacial phenomena involving liquid and supercritical CO2 with the goal of designing surfactants compatible with CO2, constructing theoretical intermolecular potentials to permit simulation of processes in CO2-based systems, understanding the kinetic, transport and rheological properties in these systems, and designing efficient chemical reaction pathways and chemical processes involving CO2 as a solvent. The Center is expected to have a significant impact on the development of environmentally benign CO2 as a solvent to replace aqueous and organic solvents in such industrially important processes as polymer synthesis, spin coating of thin films, textile dying, cleaning, and degreasing. The 39-member team of investigators includes 10 faculty at the University of North Carolina, 13 at North Carolina State University, 5 at the University of Texas, Austin, 5 at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University (an historically black university) and one at the University of Venice (Italy). Five researchers from National Laboratories (Oak Ridge, PNNL, Los Alamos) will also participate. Technology transfer to industry will occur via interaction with the 16 industrial partners of the existing UNC/NCSU Kenan Center for the Utilization of CO2 in Manufacturing and the thirty partners of the Separations Research Program at UT-Austin. Approximately 13 postdoctoral associates, 31 graduate students, and 19 undergraduates will participate each year.