bring to you a snapshot of the accomplishments of 2011 from the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. The year was full of innovation and achievement in research, teaching and professional activities, and we anticipate a great year in 2012. 2011 showed another increase in research expen-ditures to $4.6 million in the fiscal year, an increase of about 5% over the previous fiscal year and a new record for CBME. At the close of FY2011, our grants-in-force totaled just over $21 million, a good sign for continued high research activ-ity. In calendar year 2011 the CBME faculty published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles with many more in press or accepted for publication. Three additional patents were awarded to our faculty during 2011, bringing to approximately 70 the number of US and international patents held by current CBME faculty. Along with research activity, our undergraduate and graduate student enrollments remain strong. At the start of the academic year our undergraduate majors numbered 434, the largest at least since the oil boom years of the 70s and perhaps the largest ever. Our undergraduate student body continues to be of excep-tional quality, with about one in six being a National Scholar and nearly half in OU’s honors program. Our faculty are now advising around 80 graduate students in the chemical engineering or bioengineering programs. In 2011 we graduated 6 Ph.D., 21 M.S., and 36 B.S. students. In the pages that follow, I highlight a few of the publications, research grants, patents, and awards received by our faculty and students in 2011. We invite you to look for updates in our website: http://cbme.ou.edu

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2011Achievements

Dr. Lance Lobban, director

Dear colleagues, alumni and friends

Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering

The University of Oklahoma

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Research Expenditures, 2000 - present

Investigation of Asphaltene Compounds as Surface Active Moieties, $136,378, Conoco-Phillips (Brian Grady, Jeff Harwell).

Novel Supramolecular Structures of Laterally Confined Amphiphilic Molecules, $335,000, National Science Foundation (Brian Grady, Alberto Striolo).

Development of Novel Surfactants, $227,114, Novus International, (Brian Grady).

Enzyme Prodrug Therapy to Treat Metastatic Breast Cancer, $135,000, Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (R. G. Harrison)

RAGE-Proteolyzing Catalytic Antibodies for Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy, National Institute on Aging, Grants for Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery (R21), (Pete Heinzelman) Mixed Metal Carbide Catalysts for Petroleum Processing, $ 100,000, American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund (Friederike Jentoft)

Interfacially active SWNT/silica nanohybrids, $341,315, Advanced Energy Consortium (Daniel Resasco, Dimitrios Papavassiliou)

Nanopore Confinement of C-H-(O) Mixed-Volatile Fluids Relevant to Subsurface Energy Systems, $120,000, Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Geosciences Program (Alberto Striolo)

Research Grants

Book Published:Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites: Manufacture, Properties, and Applications, by Brian P. Grady (New York: John Wiley & Sons), August 2011 (ISBN: 978-0-470-59641-8). Journal articles New Sensor Network Design and Retrofit Method Based on Value of Informa-tion, D. T. Nguyen and Miguel Bagajewicz, AIChE Journal, 57 (2011) 2136-2148.

Planning model for the design/retrofit of industrial water systems, D. Faria and Miguel Bagajewicz, Ind & Engr Chem Res 50 (2011) 3788-3797.

Catalytic Conversion of Anisole over HY and HZSM-5 Zeolites in the Presence of Different Hydrocarbon Mixtures, P. Teerawit, A. T. To, Steven Crossley, W. E. Alvarez and Daniel E. Resasco, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental 106 (2011) 204-211.

Mixtures of Nonionic Surfactants Made from Renewable Resources with Alkyl Sulfates: Comparison of Headgroups, K. M. Werts and Brian P. Grady, Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, 14 (2011) 77-84.

Vascular Targeted Carbon Nanotubes for Near-infrared Light Therapy of Cancer, W. M. Prickett, B. D. Van Rite, Daniel E. Resasco and Roger G. Harrison, Nanotechnology, 22 (2011) 455101.

Remediation of NAPL Source Zones: Lessons Learned from Field Studies at Hill and Dover AFB, MJ. E. McCray, G. R. Tick, J. W. Jawitz, J. S. Gierke, M. L. Brusseau, R. W. Falta, R. C. Knox, D. A. Sabatini, M. D. Annable, Jeffrey H. Harwell and A. L. Wood, Ground Water, 49 (2011) 727-744.

The Balance between Reactivity and Stability of Modified Oxide Surfaces Illustrated by the Behavior of Sulfated Zirconia Catalysts, B. S. Klose-Schubert, R. E. Jentoft, Friederike C. Jentoft, Topics in Catalysis 54 (2011) 398-414.

Plasma steam reforming of E85 for hydrogen rich gas production, X. Zhu, T. Hoang, Lance L. Lobban and Richard G. Mallinson, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 44 (2011) 274003.

Structural effects of Na promotion for high water gas shift activity on Pt-Na/TiO2, X. Zhu, M. Shen, Lance L. Lobban and Richard G. Mallinson, Journal of Catalysis, 278 (2011) 123-132.

Significance of Extensional Stresses to Red Blood Cell Lysis in a Shearing Flow, L. A. Down, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou

and Edgar A. O’Rear, Ann Biomed Eng, 39 (2011) 1632-1642.

Effects of scaffold architecture on preosteoblastic cultures under continuous fluid shear, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou, S. VanGordon, R. S. Voronov, T. B. Blue, Robert L. Shambaugh and Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 50 (2011) 620-629.

What Should We Demand from the Catalysts Responsible for Upgrading Biomass Pyrolysis Oil? Guest Commentary, Daniel E. Resasco, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2 (2011) 2294-2295.

Amphiphilic silica nanoparticles at the decane-water interface: Insights from atomistic simulations, H. Fan, Daniel E. Resasco and Alberto Striolo, Lang-muir, 27 (2011) 5264-5274.

Incorporation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes into Ferrocene-Modified Linear Polyethylenimine Redox Polymer Films, T. O. Tran, E. Lammert, J. Chen, S. A. Merchant, D. B. Brunski, J. C. Keay, M. B. Johnson, D. T. Glatzhofer, David W. Schmidtke, Langmuir, 27 (2011) 6201-6210.

Next-Generation Modeling of Melt Blowing, B. R. Shambaugh, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou and Robert L. Shambaugh, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 50 (2011) 12233–12245.

Enhanced Osteoblastic Differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Seeded on RGD Functionalized PLLA Scaffolds and Cultured in a Flow Perfusion Bioreactor, J. A. Barreto, B. Landy, L. Place, S. B. Van Gordon, P. L. DeAngelis and Vassilios I. Sikavitsas, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 5 (2011) 464-475.

Water Can Slip on a Hydrophilic Surface, T. A. Ho, Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou, L. L. Lee and Alberto Striolo, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (2011) 16170-1675.

From Interfacial Water to Macroscopic Observables: A Review, Alberto Striolo, Adsorption Science and Technology 29 (2011) 211-258.

Patents Method for Making an Article Water Resistant and Articles Made Therefrom, US Patent #7,879,403 (2011) Edgar A. O’Rear

Method for Making an Article Hydrophobic and Oleophobic as well as Articles Made Therefrom and Their Use, US Patent #7,906,177 (2011) Edgar A. O’Rear

Sensor-Enabled Geosynthetic Material and Method of Making and Using the Same, US Patent #7,975,556 (2011) Brian P. Grady

A few samples of the publications in 2011:

Publications and Patents Of Note: 2011 Professional Development Award (AIChE) (Bagajewicz) 2011 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (Grady) 2011 Best Poster at the North American Thermal Analysis Society Meeting (Grady) 2011 Best Engineering Properties and Structure Division Paper/Presentation at ANTEC (Grady) 2011 D.B. Robinson Distinguished Speaker, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada (Resasco) 2011 HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, American Chemical Society, COMP Division (Striolo) 2011 Regent’s Award for Superior Research and Creative Activity (Striolo) ACS Journal, Energy & Fuels, (Associate Editor, Mallinson 2011) Topics in Catalysis (Guest Editor, 2011, Jentoft) ISRN Chemical Engineering (Editorial Board, 2011, O’Rear) Eddie Shimp, CBME senior, named Goldwater Scholar 2011-2012 Robert Hughes Centennial Fellowship Award (Jimmy Faria) 2011-2012 BP Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship (Jimmy Faria) 2011 1st Prize Poster Award, ACS Pentasectional Meeting (Whitney Prickett) 2011 1st Place in Engineering Graduate College Student Research and Performance Day (Brent Van Rite) 2011 Richard J. Kokes Travel Award of the North American Catalysis Society (Chandramouli Vaddepalli) 2011 OU College of Engineering Centennial Fellowship (Matt Wulfers, Chris Lewis, Nicholas Briggs) 2011-2012 BP Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship (Chiranth Srinivasan) 2011 Outstanding Poster Presentation Award, American Physical Society (Manaswee Suttipong) Society of Plastics Engineers 15 Person Executive Committee Ad Hoc member (Grady 2011)

New faculty member Steve Crossley