Siddhartha Das

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, Shayandev Sinha and Parth Desai had also won this Fellowship. 

Prof. Siddhartha Das delivered an invited talk on “Structure, Energetics, and Protein Sensing of Curved Lipid Bilayer Systems” in Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering (a Virtual Conference).

In this paper, we report the theoretical model on the massive increase in electroosmotic transport in nanochannels grafted with Polyelectrolyte Brushes modled using augmented Strong Stretching Theory (SST). This is Vishal’s 9th paper, Ankit’s 6th paper, and Harnoor’s 19th paper from the group. Congrats All !!!!!

In this paper, we develop a new theory to study the behavior, configuration, and electrostatics of polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes in large salt concentration. The findings match nicely with those predicted by our recent all-atom MD simulations of densely grafted PE brushes. This is Ankit’s 5th paper, Vishal’s 8th paper, and Harnoor’s 18th paper from the

In this paper, we study the structure of nanoparticle-supported Lipid Bilayers formed by self-assembly mechanism. This study is done in collaboration with Dr. Ramamurthi of NIH. This is Haoyuan’s 15th, Parth’s 11th, and Yanbin’s 16th paper from the group. Congrats All !!!!

In this paper, we study the diffusioosmotic transport (in presence of an applied salt concentration gradient) in nanochannels grafted with backbone-charged polyelectrolyte brushes modelled using augmented Strong Stretching Theory. This is Vishal’s 7th paper, Harnoor’s 18th paper, and Ankit’s 4th paper from the group. Congrats All !!!!

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Enrique Wagemann (a joint postdoc working with Prof. Sushanta Mitra at University of Waterloo and SMIEL) has started as an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Universidad de Concepción, Chile. This is SMIEL’s first student/postdoc starting as an independent faculty member. Heartiest congratulations, Enrique !!!!!

In this paper, which is a collaborative effort with Prof. Sushanta Mitra of University of Waterloo, we employ the classical Molecular Dynamics simulations for establishing the wetting translucency effect of hexagonal boron nitride. This is Yanbin’s 15th paper and Enrique’s 2nd paper from the group.

In this paper, we provide the first all-atom molecular dynamics simulation model to study the behavior of densely grafted polyelectrolyte brushes and reveal the large confinement effect that these brushes trigger to significant reduce the mobility of water and counterions and trigger a “water-in-salt” like scenario. This is Harnoor’s 17th paper, Turash’s 2nd paper, Parth’s