The Chemical Engineering Department at USC actively pursues research in energy, advanced materials, manufacturing, environmental solutions, medicine and more. Our faculty are addressing national and international challenges and solving problems that directly impact consumers, industry and government. Explore our active research labs, groups, centers and institutes below to learn more.
| Tags | Name | Area | Director | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering,Transforming Health Care,Biomedical Engineering | Biosensing and Biomarker Research Laboratory | Biosensors; Biomarkers; Nanotechnology; Personalized Diagnostics; Sequencing | Liu, Chang | biomedical engineering, chemical engineering |
| Chemical Engineering | Catalysis for Renewable Fuels SmartState Center | Heterogeneous catalyst synthesis; Biomass conversion; Catalyst characterization; Catalyst evaluation | Regalbuto, John | strong electrostatic adsorption, electroless deposition, x-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, chemical engineering |
| Chemical Engineering | Center for Electrochemical Engineering | Corrosion and protection; Advanced batteries; Electric vehicles; Electroplating; Stable alloys; Hydrogen embrittlement; Fuel cells | Popov, Branko | electrolyzers, capacitors, performance models, electrochemistry, chemical engineering |
| Chemical Engineering | Center for Rational Catalyst Synthesis (CERCAS) | Catalysis; Metal deposition; Thermodynamics; Kinetics; Solid-solid bonding; Precision site synthesis | Regalbuto, John | chemical engineering |
| Chemical Engineering | Heyden Lab | Computational catalysis; Multiscale modeling; Data science; Solid-liquid interfaces | Heyden, Andreas | chemical engineering |
| Energy Storage and Distribution,Chemical Engineering,Mechanical Engineering | Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Center | Hydrogen; Fuel cells; Electrolysis cells; Batteries; Electrochemical modeling; Electrochemical characterization; Transport phenomena; Renewable energy | Shimpalee, Sirivatch | Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Electrochemistry, Multiscale Modeling |
| Energy Storage and Distribution,Chemical Engineering | Mustain Laboratory for Electrocatalysts and Fuels | Electrochemistry, batteries, fuel cells, fuels, catalysts, electrochemical engineering | Mustain, William | chemical engineering |
| Biomedical Engineering,Chemical Engineering | Protein Aggregation and Neuroinflammation Laboratory | Disease detection; Amyloid; Alzheimer’s disease; Drug development; Neurodegeneration; Neuroinflammation; Protein aggregation | Moss, Melissa | biomedical, beta |
| Chemical Engineering | Strategic Approaches to the Generation of Electricity (SAGE) | Catalysis; Machine learning; Artificial intelligence; Combinatorial catalysis; CO2 utilization; Biomass torrefaction; NH3 synthesis and decomposition; Energy; High-throughput screening; Waste plastic utilization | Lauterbach, Jochen | Spectroscopy, electron microscopy, nanomaterials synthesis, biomass utilization, spectral imaging, chemical engineering |
| Chemical Engineering,Biomedical Engineering | Uline Research Group | Biophysics; Soft matter; Biomaterials; Statistical mechanics; Thermodynamics; Nucleation | Uline, Mark |