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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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