Rate My Professor Mark Swihart

Swihart's research centers on the synthesis, processing, and applications of nanoparticles and nanomaterials, as well as detailed chemical kinetic modeling in reacting flows. His laboratory has developed novel flame aerosol reactors for scalable production of high-entropy nanoceramics and multi-component metal nanoparticles, advanced solution-phase syntheses of anisotropic nanostructures, and applications including bioimaging with silicon nanocrystals, antimicrobial materials, and energy storage. He has co-authored over 180 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, three book chapters, three edited proceedings volumes, the eighth edition of Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (Smith, van Ness, Abbott, and Swihart, 2017), and is co-inventor on five issued U.S. patents. His publications have received more than 29,000 citations. Swihart has earned the Kenneth Whitby Award from the American Association for Aerosol Research, the J.B. Wagner Award from the Electrochemical Society, the Schoellkopf Medal (2013), fellowships from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Meyerson Award for undergraduate mentoring (2015), and the Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award (2026). He has been selected as “Professor of the Year” by University at Buffalo chemical engineering undergraduates five times, serves as editor of Aerosol Science and Technology, and is on the Board of Consulting Editors for AIChE Journal.