| Contact NJCMCS : The New Jersey Center for MicroChemical Systems, Castle Point on Hudson, Hoboken, NJ 07030 |
| Personnel - > Core Faculty Team |
| NJCMCS was founded by three core faculty members after two years of intensive planning and proposal development activities with industrial partners and government sponsors. Prof. W. Y. Lee’s technical contributions are in the area of engineering microchannel surfaces to be “multifunctional,” using nano- and meso-structured materials, as a proactive means of controlling fluidic and kinetic functions in microchemical devices. |
| Prof. Adeniyi Lawal is an expert in computational modeling of fluid dynamics, especially in the areas of mixing, transport, and multiscale phenomena. Prof. Ron Besser, who is an expert in the area of microfabrication, and micro device development was attracted to the vision of NJCMCS and joined Stevens in August 2002. Before coming to Stevens, Prof. Besser independently established one of the few nationally recognized programs in microchemical systems at Louisiana Tech University’s Institute for Micromanufacturing. |
| Researchers |
| Lucie Bednarova, PhD – Research Associate, Dept. of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering. Research interests include Microsystems for fuel cells and on demand production of chemicals (microreactor design, synthesis and development of novel microstructures within microchannel for catalyst deposition, rapid microreactor testing). |
| Ragunath Halder, PhD – Research Associate, Dept. of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering. Research interests include experimental studies on fast and highly exothermic reactions in microchannel reactors to prevent any reactor explosion, developments of kinetic rate expressions of the reaction systems by using the microchannel reactor data. |
| Dongying Qian, PhD – Research Associate, Dept. of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering. Research interests include Chemical Process Analysis, Advanced Separation Technique, Modeling and Simulations, Computational Fluid, Mechanics (CFD). |
| Yi-Feng Su, PhD – Research Associate, Dept. of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering. Research interests include Environmental barrier coating, high temperature oxidation of metals, Chemical vapor deposition, Microstructural characterization of materials using electron microscopy techniques. |
| Graduate Students |
| John Adeosun : Research activities/interests include design of optimized micromixers/reactors using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling and simulation tools, and experimental study of the transport processes and reaction kinetics in these microchemical systems. |
| Haibiao Chen : Research work focuses on Synthesis of microcellular catalytic structure in microchannel. |
| Hongwei Qiu: Research work is focused on preparing wall-catalyst coating for the microchemical system. Current activity is to correlate the processing conditions to the properties of the coating. |
| Keyur Shah : Research is focused on Design,
fabrication, and characterization of silicon based microchemical components for Miniature fuel processors. |
| Woo Cheol Shin : Research activities/interests include: -Design, modeling and fabrication of chemical microreactor and sensor -Implementation of process control concept to chemical microreactor system. |
| Hyun Kim: Research work includes crystallization of nanoparticle with microfluidics' liquid reactor. |
| Sunitha Tadepalli: Research work is mainly on Preparation of catalyst for the H2O2 project and obtaining optimum processing conditions and reaction kinetics for the hydrogenation of pharmaceutical compound for the BMS project. |
| Harish Gadre: Working on microreactor design, fabrication and modeling for hydrogenation of 0-nitroanisole. |
| Yury Voloshin: Research is focused on kinetics of production of hydrogen peroxide on a multiphase microreactor. |
| Staff |
| Aqsa Malik - Center and Projects manager
– 201-216-5556 Patricia Downes – Administrative Assistant - 201-216-5268 |
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