Particle Technology and Combustion Engineering

定制的纳米颗粒具有独特的性质，在许多技术中都需要，例如药物输送、可再生能源生产、微型气体传感器和高容量电池。在使用纳米粒子的新技术迅速变化的时候，具有所需特性的新纳米粒子的制造却落后了。这项研究计划开发基于计算机的建模工具，以加快设计具有成本效益、可扩展和环境友好的工艺，以制造具有受控特性的独特纳米颗粒。这些基于计算机的工具通过使用先进的算法和燃烧、气溶胶和材料科学的最新科学发现，大大减少了开发成本和时间。

Customized nanoparticles have unique properties and are needed in many technologies, for example, in drug delivery, renewable energy production, miniature gas sensors and high capacity batteries. At a time when novel technologies using nanoparticles are rapidly changing, the manufacturing of new nanoparticles with desired properties is lagging behind. This research program develops computer-based modeling tools to expedite the design of cost-effective, scalable and environmentally friendly processes for manufacturing unique nanoparticles with controlled properties. Such computer-based tools significantly reduce the development cost and time by using advanced algorithms and recent scientific discoveries in combustion, aerosol and material science.