Lecture: Applications of Molecular Thermodynamics and Modeling to Complex fluids, Soft Materials, and Pharmaceutical Products
Time: 9:30-11:30a.m., May 12th, 2015
Place: Room 214, Building No. 16, Wushan Campus
Brief introduction to Dr. Yee Chiew
Dr. Yee Chiew is a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. He had served as Interim Chair, Director of Graduate Program, and Director of Undergraduate Program of CBE, and Associate Dean for International Programs, School of Engineering at Rutgers. Dr. Chiew’s research interests include complex and macromolecular fluids, nano-colloids, drug delivery, and pharmaceutical engineering. His group develops molecular-based theoretical models and employs molecular and mesoscopic simulations to investigate and predict the thermodynamic properties and phase equilibrium of fluids mixtures, soft matter, macromolecular fluids, and pharmaceutical materials. He has authored and co-authored more than 90 archival journal articles and made numerous presentations at scientific meetings. His work has been widely cited in the literature. He received the Henry Rutgers Fellowship Award, the National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship, and the American Chemical Society’s 1999 Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Materials Science and Engineering.
This course discusses and covers the basic principles of the physical chemistry of surface (interfacial) tension and capillarity. The basic framework of thermodynamics of interfaces will be developed, the main differences between the thermodynamics of bulk phases and surfaces will be discussed. Molecular thermodynamic and statistical mechanical models for interfaces will be introduced. In addition, a lecture on How to Write a Scientific Article for Publication and another lecture on Research Ethics and Scientific Misconduct will be discussed. Students will be required to work in groups to read a paper on a topic discussed in the course, and they will be required to make a group presentation.
