Bradley F. Chmelka curriculum vitae
     
Address
   
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California (M/C 5080)
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5080 USA
 		 Telephone: (805) 893-3673
Facsimile: (805) 893-4731
Email: bradc@engineering.ucsb.edu
 
Education
   
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
B.S. Chemical Engineering
 		 University of California, Berkeley
Arizona State University
 		 1990
1982
 
Appointments
   
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara


Univ. of California, Santa Barbara


Univ. of California, Santa Barbara


Max-Planck-Institut fur Polymerforschung

Univ. of California, Berkeley

Unocal Corporation
 

Professor,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Associate Professor,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
NSF-NATO Post-doctoral Fellow

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Startup Engineer, Parachute Creek Shale Oil Project, CO

 1999-Present


1995-1999


1992-1995


1991-1992

1990-1991

1982-1984
 
Honors
   
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Award
David and Lucile Packard Foundation Award
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award
New Young Investigator Award, NSF Division of Materials Research
NSF Division of Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
 		 1996
1993
  1993
  1992
1989
1989
 
Major Research Interests
   
Our research is motivated by the need to understand at a molecular level the fabrication and functions of new catalysts, adsorbents, optoelectronic materials, porous ceramics, heterogeneous polymers, and biominerals. These categories of technologically important materials are linked by their crucial dependencies on local order/disorder, which often governs macroscopic process or device performance. We are broadly interested in heterogeneous solids, whose sizable variations in local ordering and dynamics have pronounced influences on the adsorption, reaction, optical, or mechanical properties of these materials. Through development and application of state-of-the-art techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, we observe many common molecular features among these diverse systems, which provide new insights and design intuition for our materials chemistry and engineering objectives. We benefit from close collaborative research relationships with a number of industrial partners and foreign laboratories.
Publications
   
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