Special guest Matthew Realff from the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech joins the show. We chat about wind energy, carpet recycling, coke bottles, sucking carbon dioxide out of the air, and the "chemical engineering-ification" of nanomaterials manufacturing. (Recorded on June 24, 2016)
Show Notes:
- Matthew Realff
- Cape Wind
- Savonius wind turbine
- Jo Borrás - "Instant Torque And Blazing Speeds The Best Thing About Electric Cars"
- George Stephanopoulos
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
- Eli Kintisch - "Can Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere Really Work?"
- Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Ed Dodge - "CO2 to Fuels via Photosynthesis"
- Processes and unit operations in chemical engineering
- Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC)
- Computer History Museum - "From Sand to Silicon: Integrated Circuit Design and Manufacturing"
- Floating catalyst carbon nanotube synthesis
- Mark Hersam - "Progress Towards Monodisperse Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes"