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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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