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This is a recent picture, taken in the lab. Behind me is the laminar-flow hood and inside it, the Langmuir trough.
M. Elena Diaz Martin (Ph.D. Fall 2004-Currently Univ. Salamanca, Spain)
Dr. F. Javier Montes (Ph.D. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
Mauro Torrigiani (MS, Fall 2005)
Javier Fuentes (Ph.D. November 2003-Currently UMIST-UK)
>Rupak Das (MS July 2000-Currently Graduate Student GaTech)
Information and pictures of our lab.
How do Bubbles Enter a Capillary?
Chemical Engineering Science , 52 , 1685, 1997.
Fundamental Correlations for the Computation of Design Parameters for Ordered Packings
I&EC Research , 36 , 771, 1997.
Spreading over Complex Packing Surfaces
I&EC Research, 37, 626-635, 1998.
Influence of Flow Properties on the Performance of the Monolith Froth Reactor for Catalytic Wet Oxidation of Acetic Acid
I&EC Research, 37, 1203-10, 1998.
Catalytic Wet Oxidation of Acetic Acid using Platinum on Alumina Monolith Catalyst
Catalysis Today, 40, 59-72, 1998.
Flow Patterns of Liquid Slugs During Bubble-Train Flow in Capillaries
Chemical Engineering Science 52 ,2947, 1997.
Dispersion During Bubble-Train Flow in Capillaries
Chemical Engineering Science, 54, 61-76, 1999.
Estimation of Liquid Distribution and Mass Transfer Parameters for Ordered Packings
This paper was presented at the Distillation & Absorption '97 Conference. This international conference, sponsored by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) and the Netherlands Process Technology Federation takes place every five years. This conference was held in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 8-10 September 1997
Journal of the Mexican Academy of Chemical Engineering, July 1999.
> Mass Transfer from Oscillating Bubbles in Bioreactors
Special issue of ISCRE-15/Chem. Eng. Sci., 54, 3127-3136 1999.
> Pressure Drop in Monolith Reactors
Catalysis Today, 69, 171-174, 2001
> Enhanced CO2 diffusion in wedges
Chemical Engineering J. 87, 31-40, 2002
> Comparison of theoretical and experimental characteristics of oscillating bubbles
Special issue of I&EC Research in honor of Professor W. Schowalter, I&EC Research, 41, 6235-6245, 2002.
> Moving Contact Lines and Langmuir-Blodgett Film Deposition.
J. Colloid and Interface Science, 257, 276-283, 2003.
> On the use of ceramic monoliths as stationary phase in affinity chromatography
Biotechnology Progress, 19 , 921-927, 2003.
> Transition from Split Streamlines to Dip-Coating During Langmuir-Blodgett Film Deposition
Thin Solid Films, vol. 460, 1/2, 274-278, 2004.
> Modeling of monolith-supported affinity chromatography
Biotechnology Progress, vol. 20, pp. 811-817, 2004.
Flow Patterns and Interfacial Velocities Near a Moving Contact Line, by J. Fuentes and R. L. Cerro. Experiments in Fluids, vol 38, pp 503-510, 2005
The Effects of Deposition Velocity and pH on the Order and Structure of Cadmium Arachidate Langmuir-Blodgett Films, by E. Diaz Martin, B. Johnson, K. Chittur and R. L. Cerro. Langmuir, vol. 21, pp 61-616, 2005
On the Effect of Molecular Forces on Moving Contact Lines, by J. Fuentes, M. Savage and R. L. Cerro. To be submitted Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (2004). Preprint of article Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2004
ON THE EFFECT OF SUBPHASE pH AND COUNTERIONS ON TRANSFER RATIOS AND DYNAMIC CONTACT ANGLES DURING DEPOSITION OF MULTIPLE LANGMUIR-BLODGETT MONOLAYERS , by E. Diaz Martin and R. L. Cerro. Thin Solid Films, vol. 485, pp. 224-229, 2005
Flow Bifurcation during Removal of a Solid from a Liquid Pool. AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. 2003, by E. Diaz Martin and R. L. Cerro. To be submitted Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, (2004). Preprint of article Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 2004
Surface Potentials and Ionization Equilibrium in Y-type Deposition of Multiple Langmuir-Blodgett Films: I. Effect of pH and Counterions, by E. Diaz Martin and R. L. Cerro. JCIS, vol. 285, pp 686-693, 2005
Surface Potentials and Ionization Equilibrium in Y-type Deposition of Multiple Langmuir-Blodgett Films: II. Theoretical Model, by E. Diaz Martin, F. J. Montes and R. L. Cerro. To be submitted Journal of Colloid and Interface Science , (2004). JCIS, vol 285, pp 694-702 2005
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