Advanced materials engineering are two aspects of Chemical Engineer that benefit large portion of Thai and international industries. Their importance lies in necessity of materials and processing technologies in chemical engineering processes, such as sensors, microchips, biomasses, petroleum, petrochemistry and polymers. In the field of advanced materials, our research focus is to utilize concepts of molecular design, nanostructures, reengineering, and biomaterials to support current and future technologies, and to challenge technological limitation in the industrial sector.

• Advanced materials and processing engineering are two aspects of Chemical Engineer that benefit large portion of Thai and international industries. Their importance lies in necessity of materials and processing technologies in chemical engineering processes, such as sensors, microchips, biomasses, petroleum, petrochemistry and polymers. In the field of advanced materials, our research focus is to utilize concepts of molecular design, nanostructures, reengineering, and biomaterials to support current and future technologies, and to challenge technological limitation in the industrial sector.
• An attempt has been done to reduce uses of asbestos- silicate mineral fibers, in construction materials by replacing it with basalt fibers. The fibers showed good dispersion ability, as promoted by an addition of carboxyl methyl cellulose (CMC), in mild acid to basic solution.
• In biomaterial research group, biomaterials, such as highly hierarchical bio-based materials, are produced from biological components and redesigned for biological renewable feedstocks to produce sustainable plastics. Our recent researches focus on developing breakthrough formations for lignin-based material, nano-structures hydrogels, and biodegradable polymer, etc. We emphasize development of the novel materials to innovative products with high value for technical and medical applications.

In the field of process system and control engineering, the research activities associated with modeling, simulation and control in various chemical processes, such as petroleum, petrochemical and polymer industries. The control and simulation engineering laboratory has been established as the center for modern computational technology. The laboratory has been equipped with hi-speed computers to test the newly developed engineering algorithms for complicated modeling and simulation tasks. The prototype units for industrial applications such as heterogeneous reactors, polymerization reactors and advanced process controllers have been developed for teaching and learning activities of the students. Research collaborations with various industrial companies in petroleum, petrochemical and polymer industries have been established for research and development projects.