Academic staff
Chemical and Biological Engineering - Academic staff
Professor Sankar Bhattacharya
Research Interests:
Platform chemicals (Levoglucosenone and 5-Chloromethyl furfural) from biomass and algae; Gasification and pyrolysis – biomass, coal, petroleum coke, tyre/plastics/paints for fuel and chemicals production; Chemical looping for easier CO2 capture, Oxy-CFB combustion; Coal and biomass drying; Critical metals extraction from fly ash and eWaste
Professor Udo Bach
Research Interests:
Dye-sensitized Tandem Solar Cells, Back-Contact Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, Novel Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Tandem Solar Cells, New infrared sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells, Size-selective separation of gold-nano-particles and Templated placement of individual nano-particles, DNA-Directed Nanofabrication.
A/Professor Warren Batchelor
Research Interests:
Cellulose Fibres, Paper Strength, Life Cycle Analysis, Nanomaterials, Nonwoven Structure, Sustainability, Adsorbent Development, Cellulose nanofibres, Membrane separation.
Dr. Parama Chakraborty Banerjee
Research Interests:
Electrochemistry, energy, batteries, supercapacitors, 2D materials, carbon, coatings, corrosion, nanomaterials, nanotechnology.
Professor Wenlong Cheng
Research Interests:
Soft wearable biomedical sensors, nanoparticles, DNA, green chemistry, nanocatalyts, superlattices, plasmonics
Dr. Simon Corrie
Research Interests:
Engineering novel biosensors and assays for biomedical imaging/sensing, and rapid diagnostics for human health and the environment.
