Welcome
Welcome to the Soft Matter Interfaces and Energy Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, headed by Dr. Siddhartha Das. The main research focus of the group is to devise new theoretical and numerical models to explain different fascinating physical phenomena related to soft matter and interfaces. Our research endeavour range from better understanding the colloidal dynamics in an ubiquitous drying coffee drop and the response of an elastomer to surface tension forces to pinpointing the interplay of rheology and electrohydrodynamics in relevant biophysical and micro-nanofluidic problems. The group is also involved in extensive collaborations in several projects with strong experimental components — the main focus of the group for such problems is to clearly identify and hypothesize the central phenomena dictating the experimental observations.
April 2024: Vishal’s Ph.D. Dissertation selected to receive “Honorable Mention” in the UMD’s Charles A. Caramello Distinguished Dissertation Award competition
SMIEL’s former Ph.D. student Vishal Sivasankar’s Ph.D. dissertation has been selected to receive “Honorable Mention”…
April 2024: SMIEL Group receives funding from Naval Air Command (NAWCAD)
This funding will help the SMIEL group to additively fabricate patch antennae using CNT-based conductive…
March 2024: Prof. Das delivers an invited talk in SUNY Buffalo
Prof. Siddhartha Das delivered an invited talk in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering…
March 2024: Paper accepted in Macromolecules
In this paper, we employ all-atom MD simulations for studying the behavior of cationic brushes…
March 2024: Paper accepted in Physical Review Fluids
In this paper, we propose a theory for studying the evaporation of active drops. This…
February 2024: Paper accepted in Physics of Fluids
In this paper, we study the impact-driven coalescence between two dissimilar polymeric drops. This is…