Chemical & Biological Engineering
Chemical & Biological Engineering Our goal is to prepare students to use their knowledge and skills to contribute to society and their profession. We offer undergraduate degrees in both chemical engineering and bioengineering. The basis of both chemical and biological engineering is the useful transformation of matter from one form to another. That transformation can be brought about by direct chemical reactions, or chemical reactions mediated by living organisms. Right now, chemical and biological engineers can work in many of the same areas. That may change as bioengineering develops as a profession, but bioengineers are likely to work closely with chemical engineers for the foreseeable future.
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Sex-specific effects of calving season on joint health and biomarkers in Montana ranchers
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023-01)Background. Agricultural workers have a higher incidence of osteoarthritis (OA), but the etiology behind this phenomenon is unclear. Calving season, which occurs in mid- to late-winter for ranchers, includes physical ... -
Effect of Dilute Acid Pretreatment and Lignin Extraction Conditions on Lignin Properties and Suitability as a Phenol Replacement in Phenol-Formaldehyde Wood Adhesives
(American Chemical Society, 2022-12)Corn stover was subjected to dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment to assess the impact of pretreatment conditions on lignin extractability, properties, and utility as a phenol replacement in wood phenol-formaldehyde (PF) ... -
Particle classification by image analysis improves understanding of corn stover degradation mechanisms during deconstruction
(Elsevier BV, 2023-03)iomass feedstock heterogeneity is a principal roadblock to implementation of the biorefinery concept. Even within an identical cultivar of corn stover, different bales contain not only varying abundance moisture, ash, ... -
Environment Constrains Fitness Advantages of Division of Labor in Microbial Consortia Engineered for Metabolite Push or Pull Interactions
(American Society for Microbiology, 2022-08)Fitness benefits from division of labor are well documented in microbial consortia, but the dependency of the benefits on environmental context is poorly understood. Two synthetic Escherichia coli consortia were built to ... -
Quantitative analysis of macroscopic solute transport in the murine brain
(Springer Nature, 2021-12)Background. Understanding molecular transport in the brain is critical to care and prevention of neurological disease and injury. A key question is whether transport occurs primarily by diffusion, or also by convection or ... -
An emerging view of the diversity, ecology and function of Archaea in alkaline hydrothermal environments
(Oxford University Press, 2020-12)The described diversity within the domain Archaea has recently expanded due to advances in sequencing technologies, but many habitats that likely harbor novel lineages of archaea remain understudied. Knowledge of archaea ... -
Technical Writing and Simple Statistics: for laboratory classes
(Montana State University, 2022-11)This upper division resource focuses on how to communicate results through technical writing, use Excel to perform simple statistics, and create professional charts/documents. Excel tutorials are provided for performing ... -
Lignin properties and cell wall response to deconstruction by alkaline pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis in brown midrib sorghums
(Elsevier BV, 2022-04)Lignin has an adverse impact on the deconstruction of plant cell wall biopolymers in biorefining processes and its reduction and/or alteration during biosynthesis is one target for decreasing plant cell wall recalcitrance. ... -
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy can Predict Anatomical Abundance in Corn Stover
(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-02)Feedstock heterogeneity is a key challenge impacting the deconstruction and conversion of herbaceous lignocellulosic biomass to biobased fuels, chemicals, and materials. Upstream processing to homogenize biomass feedstock ... -
Metabolomic Profiling and Mechanotransduction of Single Chondrocytes Encapsulated in Alginate Microgels
(MDPI AG, 2022-03)Articular cartilage is comprised of two main components, the extracellular matrix (ECM) and the pericellular matrix (PCM). The PCM helps to protect chondrocytes in the cartilage from mechanical loads, but in patients with ... -
Varying perivascular astroglial endfoot dimensions along the vascular tree maintain perivascular‐interstitial flux through the cortical mantle
(Wiley, 2020-10)The glymphatic system is a recently defined brain-wide network of perivascular spaces along which cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and interstitial solutes exchange. Astrocyte endfeet encircling the perivascular space form a ... -
A review of reaction enhancement strategies for isothermal nucleic acid amplification reactions
(2021-11)Isothermal nucleic acid amplification techniques are used to detect a variety of molecules such as RNAs, DNAs and proteins. When compared to the gold standard polymerase chain reaction, isothermal methods are rapid and ... -
Effect of catalyst and reaction conditions on aromatic monomer yields, product distribution, and sugar yields during lignin hydrogenolysis of silver birch wood
(2020-11)The impact of catalyst choice and reaction conditions during catalytic hydrogenolysis of silver birch biomass are assessed for their effect on aromatic monomer yields and selectivities, lignin removal, and sugar yields ... -
Impact of dilute acid pretreatment conditions on p-coumarate removal in diverse maize lines
(2020-10)Prior work has identified that lignins recovered from dilute acid-pretreated corn stover exhibit superior performance in phenol–formaldehyde resins used in wood adhesive applications when compared to diverse process-modified ... -
Xylan Is Critical for Proper Bundling and Alignment of Cellulose Microfibrils in Plant Secondary Cell Walls
(2021-09)Plant biomass represents an abundant and increasingly important natural resource and it mainly consists of a number of cell types that have undergone extensive secondary cell wall (SCW) formation. These cell types are ... -
Artificial consortium demonstrates emergent properties of enhanced cellulosic-sugar degradation and biofuel synthesis
(2020-12)Planktonic cultures, of a rationally designed consortium, demonstrated emergent properties that exceeded the sums of monoculture properties, including a >200% increase in cellobiose catabolism, a >100% increase in glycerol ... -
Mineralogy of microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitates formed using single cell drop-based microfluidics
(2020-10)Microbe-mineral interactions are ubiquitous and can facilitate major biogeochemical reactions that drive dynamic Earth processes such as rock formation. One example is microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation ... -
Impact of Xylose on Dynamics of Water Diffusion in Mesoporous Zeolites Measured by NMR
(2021-09)Zeolites are known to be effective catalysts in biomass converting processes. Understanding the mesoporous structure and dynamics within it during such reactions is important in effectively utilizing them. Nuclear magnetic ... -
Importance of specific substrate utilization by microbes in microbially enhanced coal-bed methane production: A modelling study
(2020-07)This study addresses a major gap in the understanding and control of microbially enhanced coal-bed methane (MECBM) production. A mathematical and conceptual model comprises a food-web that includes two types of bacteria ... -
A Microfluidic-Based Investigation of Bacterial Attachment in Ureteral Stents
(2020-04)Obstructions of the ureter lumen can originate from intrinsic or extrinsic factors, such as kidney stones, tumours, or strictures. These can affect the physiological flow of urine from the kidneys to the bladder, potentially ...
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