Air, water and sugars: physics and chemistry around us!

Biomaterials have been employed to create implants that address a range of medical conditions. Nevertheless, the therapeutic benefits of these implants are often short-lived and constrained, as they may be rejected by the host. To address this issue, the properties of these materials, especially their surfaces, can be altered. My project is centered on developing surface-modified biomaterials that display small molecules on their surface. These specific small molecules bind to immune cells, enabling them to recognize the biomaterial or implant as self thereby improving its therapeutic efficacy.

Air entrainment is an important process used in many industries, like wastewater treatment. It involves adding gasses(generally oxygen) into liquids to help with various tasks. This process is the most energy consuming process (about 50%) in wastewater treatment plants. There are different methods of this, where one such simple method is plunging jet system, where water falls at high speed into a tank, similar to a waterfall. By improving our understanding and modelling of this process, we can design better systems, save energy, and use resources more efficiently.

A fun brief on the stuff floating around in the air and how it affects us; the physics and the humanity.