Prof. Bara & Dr. Shannon receive another U.S. Patent! US Patent 9162191
Enhancing the Pre-Polymerization Coordination of 1-Vinylimidazole
Jackie R. Hamilton, Asghar Abedini, Zhongtao Zhang, John W. Whitley, Jason E. Bara and C. Heath Turner. Chem. Eng. Sci. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2015.08.045
Building Blocks for Ionic Liquids: Vapor Pressures and Vaporization Enthalpies of N-Functionalized Imidazoles with Branched and Cycloalkyl Substituents
Sergey P. Verevkin, Ksenia V. Zaitseva, Alexander D. Stanton, Michelle S. Hindman, A. Christopher Irvin and Jason E. Bara. Ind. Eng. Chem Res. ACS ASAP. doi:10.1021/acs.iecr.5b01599
Webinar on Mobile Apps in Chemical Engineering
Prof. Bara gave an AIChE-CAST Division webinar on the use of mobile apps in chemical engineering education. The full video can be viewed for free on YouTube
3D Printed Block Copolymer Nanostructures
Vincent F. Scalfani, C. Heath Turner, Paul A. Rupar, Alexander H. Jenkins and Jason E. Bara. J. Chem. Educ. ACS ASAP. doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.5b00375
Tangible visualization of molecular dynamics simulations using 3-D printing
Jason E. Bara, C. Heath Turner, Zhongtao Zhang & Christopher I. Hawkins. Educ. Chem. Eng. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.ece.2015.07.001
Structure-property relationships in Ionic Liquids: chain length dependence of the vaporization enthalpies of imidazolium-based ionic liquids with fluorinated substituents
Dzmitry H. Zaitsau, Andrei V. Yermalayeu, Sergey P. Verevkin, Jason E. Bara & David A. Wallace. Thermochim. Acta In Press. doi:10.1016/j.tca.2015.04.021
Poly(Ionic Liquid) Superabsorbent for Polar Organic Solvents
W. Jeffrey Horne, Mary A. Andrews, Kelsey L. Terrill, Spenser S. Hayward, Jeannie E. Marshall, Kenneth A. Belmore, Matthew S. Shannon & Jason E. Bara ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces Just Accepted Manuscript 10.1021/acsami.5b01921
Effect of branched and cycloalkyl functionalities on CO2 separation performance of poly(IL) membranes
W. Jeffrey Horne, Mary A. Andrews, Matthew S. Shannon, Kelsey L. Terrill, Joshua D. Moon, Spenser S. Hayward & Jason E. Bara. Sep. Purif. Technol. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.seppur.2015.02.00
NSF REU Program for Summer 2015
Interested undergraduates should apply to our NSF-REU site program, “Leveraging Computational Tools for Enhancing Engineering Innovation”, hosted in the Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Alabama:
http://reu.eng.ua.edu/programs/leveraging-computational-tools/
Early deadline is 2/16/15, with applications accepted until 3/20/15.