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.
Cheerios Effect (Photo Credit: David Duprey/Associated Press)
May 2024: Paper accepted in Chemical Communications
In this Feature Article, we discuss my group’s work on all-atom Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations…
May 2024: Paper Published in Macromolecules
In this paper, we establish a new machine learning technique to demonstrate two separate hydration…
April 2024: Paper Accepted in Nanoscale Advances
This paper probes the hydrogen bonding network inside boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs). This is Bhargav’s…
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…