Materials Engineering at UB focuses on the study and fabrication of both soft and hard materials and apply transport phenomena, thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics/reaction engineering, allowing us to take practical and quantitative approaches to materials research not common in chemistry or materials science departments. We focus on nano-technology, advanced polymers, catalysis, colloids, and self-assembly and crystallization phenomena and apply it to fuel production, fabrication of catalysts, drug delivery, oil dispersants (example: 2010 B.P. oil spill), semiconductors, and electronic display advancements.
