February 20, 2009
Thomas M. Truskett, chemical engineering associate professor at The University of Texas at Austin, has been invited to present the inaugural Dudley A. Saville Lecture in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Princeton University on April 1. It will be the first in a series of annual talks presented by exceptional early-career chemical engineers and scientists. Truskett’s lecture, “Structure and Dynamics of Confined Fluids,” will discuss a new way to predict the properties of confined fluids, which should help in the design of new devices and processes. Confined liquids, or fluids trapped in small spaces, play an important role in a variety of fields such as cell biology and the engineering of nanoscale devices, and in new technologies such as chemical sensors, devices for sequencing biological molecules like DNA, and membranes for separating fluid mixtures.
Truskett holds the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Fellowship in Chemical Engineering.
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