Attend a seminar on Transforming Particle Production: Modular Co-Designs for Continuous Manufacturing, Nov. 1
Join the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks for a seminar on Transforming Particle Production: Modular Co-Designs for Continuous Manufacturing.
About the speaker
Mo Jiang is an assistant professor in Virginia Commonwealth University’s department of chemical and life science engineering. His research focuses on reducing variability in material production and enhancing resource recovery, with applications in health care, energy and environmental sustainability. His work has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, U.S. Pharmacopeia, the Gates Foundation and Boehringer Ingelheim. Before joining VCU in 2018, Jiang completed his doctorate of philosophy in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015, where he also conducted postdoctoral research. His contributions have been recognized with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, or AIChE, Particle Technology Forum George Klinzing Best Doctor of Philosophy Award and the AIChE Process Development Division Student Paper Award. Jiang holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from Tsinghua University and a Master of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Abstract
The rapid development of new materials is driving breakthroughs in medicine, energy storage and energy conversion. Continued progress in these fields requires a mechanistic understanding of particle functions and precise, consistent particle production. Key to this is controlling particle size distribution, or PSD. Current batch-mode production methods often result in wide, non-reproducible distributions, even at lab scales, due to complex interactions among nucleation, growth, attrition, aggregation and fouling — all affected by factors like supersaturation, mechanical shear and surface energy. State-of-the-art methods address PSD variability by refining particle sizes through milling or sieving, which are neither scalable nor reproducible. Meeting future industrial demands calls for continuous manufacturing techniques that provide reliable, reproducible and precise control. This seminar presents modular continuous process co-designs that optimize nucleation and growth to enhance spatial uniformity in particle production. These designs, integrating fluid motion, reactions and phase transitions, have been validated in applications such as lithium-ion batteries and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Transforming Particle Production: Modular Co-Designs for Continuous Manufacturing
Friday, Nov. 1, 2024
10:30 a.m.–noon
Peralta Hall (PRLTA) 130, Polytechnic campus [map]