Recent advancements in soft electronics have garnered significant attention due to their potential applications in personalized, mobile, and wearable electronic devices. However, conventional electronic and optoelectronic devices often face challenges such as mechanical mismatch with soft human tissues, leading to issues like device fracture under...
Degradation in various engineering systems is inevitable, and numerous automated technologies have been proposed to enable predictive maintenance and prevent sudden failures. Despite recent advances, automation of these real-world tasks has been limited thus far. This is partly due to the variety of data and...
Joint Session with the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering In this presentation I will discuss different approaches to improve the sustainability of the plastics industry that the Huber group has worked on. The Center for Upcycling of Waste Plastics (www.cuwp.org) is developing the scientific,...
In this presentation I will discuss different approaches to improve the sustainability of the plastics industry that the Huber group has worked on. The Center for Upcycling of Waste Plastics (www.cuwp.org) is developing the scientific, engineering, and economic information that will enable the chemical recycling...
Ceria is an essential component in the heterogeneous catalysis for non-reductive CO2 conversion and rhenium-catalyzed deoxydehydration (DODH). Ceria is an effective heterogeneous catalyst for the reactions such as alcohols+CO2, amines+CO2, and alcohols+amines+CO2 which give corresponding organic carbonates [1], urea derivatives [2], and carbamates [3]. When the...
Conventional reactions are mostly driven by heat, light, and electricity to overcome activation barriers. They are named as thermochemistry, photochemistry, and electrochemistry, respectively. Likewise, chemical reactions induced by mechanical actions, such as abrasion, friction, cracking, colliding, and so on, are defined as mechanochemistry. The most...
