Program Overview
Degrees offered
The department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UNM offers an MS in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Engineering with a Chemical Engineering concentration.
Research Areas
The department has a variety of established research programs in chemical, biological, and materials engineering. These include:
- Nano- and Biomaterials Synthesis & Biomimetic
- Microenginering Materials, Metamaterials
- Complex Fluids, Soft Matter, Colloids, and Interfaces
- Smart, Optoelectronics, and Photonic Materials
- Materials & Interfaces with Energy Applications
- Bioanalytical Micro- and Nanosystems
- Tissue Engineering
- Catalysis
- Electrochemistry, Fuel Cells, and Batteries
- Energy Transport in Synthetic and Natural Biosystems
Research Facilities
Research facilities available to graduate students include:
- Chemical Reactors (Berty, Packed Bed)
- Autoscan-33 Mercury Porosimeter
- Autosorb-1 Sorption Analyzer
- Sedigraph Particle Sizer
- ASAP2000 Sorption Analyzer (2)
- VTI 100 High Pressure Absorption Analyzer
- Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes
- Chemisorption in-situ IR Spectroscpopy
- UHV Chambers for Surface Science Experiments
- Plasma Etching Equipment
- Semiconductor Fabrication/Characterization Equipment
- A Process Control Laboratory
- Fossil Energy Characterization Instrumentation and a Scattering Facility, including 2 Rotating Anode Generators
- 2 light scattering Set-ups
- SpectraMax M5 and SpectraMax M2 Multi-Mode Microplate Readers
- Lambda 35 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
- Agilent 1100 HPLC System
- UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing http://carc.unm.edu/ – Students interested in computational projects will have access to state-of-the-art computational facilities
Other equipment is available in the department for diffusion/absorption measurements, solar research, phase equilibria and biomedical research.
Graduate students also have access to resources available through our associated centers and affiliated research facilities.
