Issue 06 | Aug 2025
Forging New Frontiers
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
A new recipe for modelling chemical processes
A machine-learning framework helps engineers build models for new chemical processes by combining knowledge from existing ones.
M
aster chefs and chemical engineers have more in common than one might expect. Both work based on recipes — some passed down, some improvised along the way — and both are in the business of mixing ingredients under certain conditions to produce consistent results.
Cooking, like chemical engineering, involves a heap of experimentation. But when it comes to inventing something new, even chefs don’t start from scratch. Graphic images in this newsletter were generated using AI and intended only as a visualisation of general concepts or ideas related to the research.