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.
September 2024: Paper Accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
In this collaborative effort with the team at University of Twente (led by Prof. Sissi…
August 2024: Paper accepted in ELECTROPHORESIS
In this paper, we study the streaming current generation and resulting electrokinetic transport in capillaries…
August 2024: Paper accepted in PHYSICS OF FLUIDS
In this paper, we study the fluid mechanics of active fluids in a permeable capillary….
August 2024: Paper accepted in LANGMUIR
In this paper, we calculate the Taylor’s dispersion coefficient in presence of active liquid flows…
August 2024: ChemComm. paper identified as one of the most downloaded papers
Chem.Comm. declared that our feature article titled “All-atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Polymer and Polyelectrolyte…
July 2024: Raashiq wins STLE Scholarship
SMIEL Ph.D. student, Raashiq Ishraaq has been awarded a scholarship from the Philadelphia Section of…