Siddhartha Das

Prof. Siddhartha Das has been elected as the Fellow of the Institute of Physics, U.K.

In this paper, we discover the effect the presence of the polyelectrolyte (PE) brush induced confinement in altering the water-water and water-PE hydrogen bond energies and the associated effect on water rotational dynamics inside the PE brush layer. This is Harnoor’s 22nd paper, Thrash’s 4th paper, and Bhargav’s 3rd paper from the group. Congratulations All

Two new graduate students, Mihirkumar Prajapati and Swarup Subudhi have joined SMIEL. Mihir will pursue his Ph.D. and Swarup will pursue his M.S. We, from the SMIEL family, extend them heartiest welcome.

In this paper, we employ molecular dynamics simulations to study the drop imbibition dynamics in a layer of grafted and responsive polymer molecules. This is Ankit’s 7th, Parth’s 13th, and Harnoor’s 21st paper.

SMIEL’s current Ph.D. student Sai Ankit Etha has been selected for the UMD’s Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award for Academic Year 2020-21.

Current SMIEL Ph.D. students Turash Haque Pial and Sad Ankit Etha have been selected for the A. James Clark School of Engineering Future Faculty Program. They are sixth and seventh students from my group to get selected this program. Prior to this, Guagn Chen, Shayandev Sinha, Yanbin Wang, Haoyuan Jing, and Harnoor Singh Sachar have

In this paper, which is a collaborative work with the NIH, we show the lack of curvature-dependence of the energies and configurations dictating the motion of lipid molecules in a lipid bilayer. This is Haoyuan’s 16th, Yanbin’s 18th, and Parth’s 13th paper from the group. Congratulations to All!!!!

SMIEL Ph.D. student Harnoor Singh Sachar has been selected as one of the finalists for the Frank J. Padden Jr. Award sponsored by the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Akron. As a finalist, Harnoor will present his research in the 2021 Padden Award Symposium organized by the Division of Polymer Physics of

Haoyuan Jing successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Phospholipid Behavior and Dynamics in Curved Biological Membranes“. This is the 4th Ph.D. student graduating from SMIEL. Many congratulations, Jing !!!!!

The project, which aims to advance Additive Manufacturing Technology, will provide the research team a total support of 22.8 million dollars for 5 years. The details can be found in this link: https://eng.umd.edu/news/story/umd-engineering-receives-228m-from-us-army-to-collaboratively-advance-additive-manufacturing-technology?fbclid=IwAR0QbXrHmsTZeOgxUETz7s_aKMExMiZrv_a95ViqnK4nnesDaK1mSaKxicw