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Critical infrastructure such as bridges and roads are being devised as intelligent systems that use such technology as "smart" sensors as a means of protection and warning.

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Shirley Dyke

Professor of Civil Engineering (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/582.html)

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Dyke received her doctorate from the University of Notre Dame after graduating from the University of Illinois. She has published dozens of peer reviewed articles and is active in many international conferences and professional organizations. Research interests include semi-active structural control, ...


Expertise: civil engineering, semi-active structural control, structural health monitoring, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, system identification

Direct contact: (314) 935-5695
Pratim Biswas

Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/481.html)

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Biswas received his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, has published extensively in his field and served on many international organizations and conferences. His research interests include aerosol science and engineering, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, materials ...


Expertise: aerosol science, nanoparticle technology, air quality engineering, combustion, material processing for environmental technologies, environmentally benign processing, environmental nanotechnology, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5482 / pratim.biswas@seas.wustl.edu

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A world of promise

Chemist explores ways to make hydrogen a viable fuel (http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/6008.html)

Nov. 2, 2005 --
A WUSTL chemist and his colleagues are exploring different approaches to help make hydrogen fuel more practical.
Storing hydrogen is problematic. A WUSTL chemist and his colleagues are exploring different approaches to help make hydrogen fuel more practical.
A chemist at Washington University in St. Louis hopes to find the right stuff to put the element hydrogen in a sticky situation. Lev Gelb is exploring several different ways to store hydrogen and prepares theoretical models of molecules that could enable storage and transport of hydrogen gas. One process would involve materials that hydrogen would stick to.


Oxidizing hazardous particles

Device traps, deactivates airborne bioagents (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/726.html)

March 3, 2004 --
Anthrax is nasty stuff. An environmental engineer at WUSTL uses smart catalysts in his device that can detect the presence of airborne anthrax and disable it.
An environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis with his doctoral student has patented a device for trapping and deactivating microbial particles. The work is promising in the war on terrorism for deactivating airborne bioagents and bioweapons such as the smallpox virus, anthrax and ricin, and also in routine indoor air ventilation applications such as in buildings and aircraft cabins.



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