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The University of Patras - Chem-E-Car Team named Lamborgenius took third place in the 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Student Conference Chem-E-Car Competition in Phoenix (Arizona – USA),…

 
Prof. Spyros Pandis, Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras and Collaborating Faculty Member of FORTH/ICE-HT, received the Nikolai Albertovich Fuchs Memorial Award 2022 for his…

 
@ChemEngUP is the newsletter of the Department of Chemical Engineering and includes information and news about the most important activities of the Department.…

 
Professor John Tsamopoulos of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Patras was elected a fellow of the Society of Rheology in June 2022: “The SoR Fellowship status recognizes a history of…

 
The chemical engineer Robert Langer co-founded Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna, and his innovations have helped create more than 100 products from artificial skin…

 
We all know that entropy and friction go hand-in-hand. Friction creates irreversibility which results in the generation of entropy. This fundamental coupling has been the cornerstone of modern equilibrium and (more…

 
 Exam date & time for PhD Fall Semester Courses 2021-2022 will be arranged in consultation with each course instructor: Course Code Course Instructor PhD code: GCHEM_Α101 Thermodynamics   C. Vayenas…

 
Every year the Department invites distinguished scientists from universities, research centers and industry to talk about their work and professor Hermenegildo García (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV, Spain),…

 
Presenting a fresh look at process control, this new text demonstrates state-space approach shown in parallel with the traditional approach to explain the strategies used in industry today. Modern time-domain and…

 
Vincent van Gogh’s sunflowers are wilting. Each time a photon of light hits the paint on the petals, there is a chance of it sparking a reaction. After 130 years of photons there have been many chances — the sunflowers…

 
Our Department has the honor to welcome as visiting scientists two International Scholars, Prof. Athanasios Nenes and Prof. Vassily Hatzimanikatis, both from EPFL, Switzerland. The two visitors have joined our…

 
The UT Austin Portugal Program, a Science and Technology Partnership between the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology  (FCT) and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) , has announced the online "…

 
Numerical simulations reveals the intrinsic mechanism for the onset of the sharkskin instability in polymer extrusion process In this paper, we have studied polymer extrusion, an important process in plastics…

 
Since its isolation in 2004 by Geim and Novoselov from the University of Manchester (Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010), graphene has been termed as a ‘wonder material’ due to its exceptional properties that have already…

 
A research article was published today in Nature Nanotechnology journal which paves the way for new methods of art conservation by the Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Laboratory. The innovative idea of using…