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The Center for Complex
Fluids Engineering is an interdisciplinary research and educational effort
housed in two different colleges at Carnegie Mellon
University. Faculty
and graduate students involved in the center perform fundamental and
applied research to attack problems in the formulation, control
and engineering of processes involving complex fluids.
Vision Statement
Complex fluids, which include polymeric and surfactant solutions as well as
colloidal suspensions, are of universal industrial importance due to their
unique mechanical properties, their capacity to solubilize
and transport materials and their internal microstructures. Complex fluids
engineering is an enabling discipline that facilitates the efficient
production of existing product and the scale-up of novel laboratory
procedures to pilot and production plant size operations for new products.
The Center is a synergy of scientific knowledge bases targeted at
processing operations involving complex fluids in the coatings,
pharmaceutical and mining industries such as spraying, granulation,
solid/liquid and protein separations. This
same scientific knowledge base is vital to the fields of nanotechnology and
biotechnology, leading to significant research in these areas by CCFE
faculty.
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