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Dr. Robinson

• Liquid Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass
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• Waste Motor Oil Reclamation - Solvent & Catalyst Assisted Process
• Precious Metals Analysis and Mineral Beneficiation

Dr. Beran

• Isomers of small fullerenes
• Photo-sensitized dyes
• Thermodynamics of the hydrodesulfurization (HDS) process
• Matrix-analyte interactions in MALDI experiments
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 Dr. Hahn

• Atom Economic Alkene Functionalization by Highly Electrophilic Transition Metal Complexes

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