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Soft matter and complex fluids are ubiquitous in natural and synthetic systems. Our interests lie in the fundamental physics and chemistry that determines the structure and dynamics of these materials. Through studies focused on interfacial phenomena, directed self-assembly, rheology and microfluidics, we advance basic structure-property relationships, materials science, of colloids, liquid crystals, surfactants, polymers and biological materials. Many of these systems have interesting applications as functional materials, for example as sensors, controlled release agents or in photovoltaics and nanomaterials synthesis. |
Last modified: June 30 2011
GROUP NEWS
June 30th 2011: Meagan Mauter will defend her PhD thesis at 4pm in ML 107.
June 22nd 2011: Candice's poster presentation on lyotropic assembly of ZnO nanowires for solar cells wins Poster Award at the 85th ACS Colloids and Surface Science Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
June 20th 2011: Meagan's manuscript on "Antifouling Ultrafiltration Membranes via Post-Fabrication Grafting of Biocidal Nanomaterials" has been accepted in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
June 19th 2011: Congratulations to Shanju who has accepted a position as an Assitant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Cal Poly.
June 16th 2011: The lab bids farewell to both Ajay and Maria. Maria is returning to Italy where she will graduate with her Master's degree from Univ. Rome. Ajay will start his position as Assistant Professor of Physics at IISER-Bhopal. Congrats to them both.
May 2nd 2011: Deadline for submission of AIChE abstracts
April 15th 2011: Manesh's paper with the Kasi Lab on PEO crystallization in LC block copolymers is accepted in Macromolecules.
April 5th 2011: Graduate student Candice Pelligra has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.March 14th 2011: Manesh's paper with the Kasi Lab on shape-memory LC polymers is accepted in ACS-Nano.