Radisav D. Vidic

 

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

949 Benedum Hall

412-624-9870, 0135(fax)

vidic@engr.pitt.edu

http://www.engr.pitt.edu/civil/facstaff/vidic_radisav.html

 

 

Radisav Vidic’s research aims to advance the applications of surface science by providing fundamental understanding of molecular-level interactions between adsorbates and adsorbents.  In particular, he is looking to delineate the impact of chemical and topological heterogeneity of nanoporous adsorbents on their ability to adsorb organic and inorganic pollutants in both aqueous and gaseous streams so that further development of adsorption-based technologies for environmental control can be achieved.  Vidic utilizes controlled modification of surfaces as means to bridge the difference between “model” and “real” adsorbents to understand both the adsorption phenomena and catalytic reactions enabled by selected solid surfaces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(left to right) AFM images of highly-oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG): raw, plasma oxidized, and with single walled carbon nanotubes.