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)
This paper explores the possibility of localizing water-free anion at negative electrode using Boron Nitride Nanotube in presence large concentration of Water-in-Salt Systems. This is…
In this paper, we employ coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations to study the effect of base-pair mismatches on DNA plectoneme pinning. This work is a result…
Vishal Sankar Sivasankar siccessfully defends his M.S. thesis on the topic “Electrokinetic transport in nanochannels grafted with backbone charged Polyelectrolyte brushes”. Vishal is the 5th…
In this paper, we study the effect of charge Density on the properties of polyelectrolyte chains, brush-supported counterions, and water molecules by employing all-atom MD…
The paper employs molecular dynamics simulations for studying friction in graphene channels of height less than 1 nanometer as a function of graphene misalignment. The…
SMIEL Ph.D. student Harnoor Singh Sachar wins the STLE (Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineering) Philadelphia section Scholarship. Previously, two more Ph.D. students from SMIEL,…
