4/26/2012 Your Waste is Energy!
This afternoon, the Brent group presented their strategy for a waste to energy plan in the Wembley area. All the London projects are nearly finished and all turned out great!
Nico Martinez, Joaquin Serrano, Brad Merrill, Prof. Kathi Fisler, Nico Broulidakis, and Prof. Terri Camesano
4/19/2012
London projects are wrapping up nicely. The first group of WPI students finished their project for the borough of Croyden. Eight more projects are about to wrap up!
WPI juniors Kevin Hufnagle, Jian Mao, Yusuf Rashid, with project sponsors and advisors Prof. Camesano and Prof. Davis
3/5/2012 New Publication!
As part of our collaboration with Natick Solider Research Development and Engineering Center, we have a new manuscript accepted for publication. This work is based on the M.S. thesis of Sena Ada.
Marcott, S., Ada, S., Gibson, P., Camesano, T.A., and R. Nagarajan. Novel application of polyelectrolyte multilayers as nanoscopic closures with hermetic sealing, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2012, 4(3):1620-1628.
Schematic of nanoscopic closures concept.
2/1/2012 Cranberry News
Our cranberry research was cited in the February 2012 issue of Marie Claire!
This work is based on a recently published article. Pinzón-Arango, P.A , Holguin, K., and T.A. Camesano. Impact of cranberry juice and proanthocyanidins on the ability of Escherichia coli to form biofilms, Food Science and Biotechnology, 2011, 5:1315-1321.
Place Stanislas on a rare sunny moment in Nancy
Isabella and Jill working in the Laboratoire des Réactions et Génie des Procédés
1/14/2012
Eight WPI students are spending 2 months to work on their senior theses at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy, France. Their projects are in areas including biofilms in wastewater, degradation of dyes in industrial wastewater, themodynamic properties of ionic liquids, and fuel cells. This year is the 10th anniversary of the WPI-Nancy Student Exchange!
1/5/2012
Congratulations to Dr. Paola Pinzon-Arango, who passed her Ph.D. defense!
11/15/2011
A new paper on the mechanism of membrane disruption by antimicrobial peptides was recently accepted for publication.
Wang, K.F., Nagarajan, R., Mello, C.M., and T.A. Camesano. Characterization of supported lipid bilayer disruption by chrysophsin-3 using QCM-D. J. Phys. Chem. B, 2011, 115 (51), pp 15228–15235 http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp209658y
11/4/2011
Professor Camesano recently visited Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University with Professors Billiar and Gaudette. The WPI delegation was there in order to help develop new collaborations between WPI and excellent universities in China. More pictures and info on recent trip to China will be posted soon!
