Adam Boies
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Bio
Adam Boies is head of the Aerosol and Nanotechnology for Energy and the Environment (ANEE) laboratory, which focuses on developing energy and environmental technologies through aerosol and nano-scale approaches that can either synthesize or measure aerosols, nanoparticles, or pollution.
He was previously Professor of Nanomaterials and Aerosol Engineering and Head of the Energy Faculty at the Cambridge University Engineering Department. He served as director of the Advanced Carbon Application and Manufacturing network and was co-creator and Partnership Director of the Aerosol Science CDT.
See www.ANEEStanford.com
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
The Boies group focuses on characterizing the evolution, dynamics and impacts of two-phase reacting flows with an emphasis on aerosol technology applied to energy materials, nanomaterial morphology and particle sensing. His group has developed methods to synthesize and characterize carbon nanotube materials that self-assemble into aerogels which are post processed as advanced fibres or matts. Complimentary work in nanomaterial sensing has enabled new techniques to measure nanomaterial morphology such as fractal structures with application in pollution, fire detection, non-exhaust particles and aircraft emissions and contrails. Applications of our core technologies include nanomanufacturing processing technologies, electrochemistry applied to lithium-ion electrode materials, filtering and catalysis of pollutants.
Adam Boies is a Fellow of Trinity College and has over 100 publications and 15 patents. He has been granted >$40m total project funding from EPSRC, IUK, EU Horizon2020 and NERC. Technology from his group launched five spin-outs, where he serves as Research Director for Catalytic Instruments (emissions sensing); co-founder of Echion Technologies (lithium ion electrode materials), CamVolt Ltd. (battery cycling measurement) and AetoSense (pollution detection); and has licenced technology to Atmose Ltd (air quality monitoring). He serves as a board member of the UK Aerosol Society and is Chief Scientific Advisor to Q-Flo Technologies.
2024-25 Courses
- Convective Heat Transfer
ME 352C (Spr) - Heat Transfer
ME 131 (Win) - Thermofluids, Energy, and Propulsion Research Seminar
ME 390A (Spr) -
Independent Studies (10)
- Engineering Problems
ME 391 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Engineering Problems and Experimental Investigation
ME 191 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Experimental Investigation of Engineering Problems
ME 392 (Aut, Win, Sum) - Honors Research
ME 191H (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Directed Research
ME 393 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Master's Directed Research: Writing the Report
ME 393W (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Ph.D. Research Rotation
ME 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Ph.D. Teaching Experience
ME 491 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Practical Training
ME 299A (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Practical Training
ME 299B (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Engineering Problems
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral (Program)
Elizabeth Fletes, José Hasbani