CBET Mission:

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Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and
Transport Systems, CBET

• CBET Mission
• ? Support Research in Chemical, Bioengineering,
• Environmental, Transport Systems
• ? Catalyze the merging of biology, chemistry,
• physics and socio-economic science in
• engineering research
• ? Support research to enhance and protect US
• national health, energy, environment,
  security
• and wealth

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Chemical, Biochemical and Biotechnology Systems
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A Synthetic Delivery Vehicle for Gene
Transfer ? hitchhike gene delivery
nanoparticles onto motor protein
complexes ? Convert chemical energy to
mechanical work ? Carry nanoparticle cargo
toward cell nuclei
Suzie Pun, U. of Washington
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Chemical, Biochemical and Biotechnology Systems
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• Bloodless Biosensing with Carbon Nanotubes
• ? Implantable capillary devices
• ? Filled with carbon nanotubes
• ? Monitor glucose levels without drawing blood
• ? For diabetes and other biosensors

Michael Strano, UIUC
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1 Finger Implanted with 2 Capillary Tube 3
Non-invasive near-Infrared Image 4 Compare
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Transport and Thermal Fluids Phenomena
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• High-Fidelity Numerical Modeling Simulation of
  Fire Suppression
• ? Predicts multiphase turbulent
• mixing processes over a wide
• range of time/length scales.
• ? Grand challenge of turbulence
• modeling with reactions
• ? Multi-scale modeling on
• both large and small scales
• ? Includes Sandia, Navy NIST
• interactions plus excellent
• educational components.

Paul E. DesJardin SUNY Buffalo
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Transport and Thermal Fluids Phenomena
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Nanocolloid Assembly and Dispersion by Quantum
Design of van der Waals Forces ?
Nanocolloids have remarkable electrical,
optical and reactive properties ? Need to
prevent aggregation by predicting and
controlling van der Waals forces ? Use
solvent mixtures to shield nanocolloids
to keep them stable
Stable nanoparticles Groups of red atoms with
co-solvent shield (blue)
Darrell Velegol Milton W. Cole Penn State
Unstable (aggregated) particles
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Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Healthcare
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BQuest Crew ? Completed 2,500 mile
Transpac Yacht Race ? Each crew member, except
the skipper, had a disability
Engineering students at San Diego State
University designed adaptive equipment
on the yacht for crew members with
disabilities
Michael Lambert, SDSU
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Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Healthcare
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• Biomimetic Bone
• ? Mimic both composition
• and nanostructure of bone
• ? Prepare synthetic bone
• prosthetics
• ? Load- bearing
• ? Bioresorbable
• ? Enable regeneration of hard
• tissue prosthetics into
• natural bone.

NIRT Laurie Gower, Elliot Douglas, John
Mecholsky, University of Florida
Barbara Boyan, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Environmental Engineering and Sustainability
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• An
• Autonomous Microbial Genosensor
• for Freshwater Microbial Ecology
• ? Remote sampling
• ? High frequency and
• high degree of specificity
• ? Multi-day deployment in lakes
• to detect bacteria

David FriesWisconsin
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Environmental Engineering and Sustainability
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Aquatic Nano Environmental Heath and Safety of
Nanomaterials and Their Bimolecular
Derivatives ? Binding of lysophospholipid onto
single-walled single-walled carbon
nanotubes (SWNTs) over a silicon
substrate ? Finalist at the Science
Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006
by NSF and the Science magazine.
Pu Chun Ke Clemson University
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CBET Workshops
? iEngineering approaches to obesity ?
iCyber- based Combustion Science ? iMinority
Faculty Workshop ? iResearch Frontiers for
Combustion in the Hydrogen Economy ?
iWorkshop on Cyberinfrastructure in
Chemical Biological Systems ? iGrand
Challenges of the Future for Environmental
Modeling ? iA Workshop for integrating Social
Sciences Research in the WATERS Network
and other Environmental Observatories ?
iFrontiers in Environmental Engineering
Education ? iSustainable Nanomanufacturing
(US/Aus/Singapore)