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) 
September 2023: SMIEL Group receives NSF Grant
The grant titled “Collaborative Research: Very High Heat-flux Cooling through Stable Energy-Efficient Macro-scale Partial Flow-boiling…
August 2023: Two new students join SMIEL as Ph.D. students
Two new students, Subad and Shathi, have joined SMIEL as Ph.D. students in Fall 2023….
August 2023: Paper accepted in ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging
In this paper, we study the temperature-humidity sensing and life prediction modeling of aerosol jet…
July 2023: Paper Accepted in MACROMOLECULES
In this paper, we develop a numerical and scaling model for probing the coalescence of…
June 2023: Paper accepted in LANGMUIR
In this paper, we study the evaporation-induced formation of 3D deposits. This is Beihan’s 8th…
June 2023: Paper accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
In this paper, we show the possibility of separating miscible liquids by using nanoconfined polymeric…