The paper proposes to graft nanochannels with end-charged polyelectrolyte brushes for ensuring a massive enhancement of electroosmotic transport — the work reverses the idea that brush-grafted nanochannels will necessarily demonstrate a weaker transport. This is Guang’s 13th paper in SMIEL. Huh…Congrats….
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SMIEL’s successful NAVAIR funding has been highlighted in a news story published in the web page of Mechanical Engineering Department, UMD. Click this link for the story
SMIEL had a strong presence at the APS March 2017 meeting with 4 talks and one session chairing (by Dr. Das). The 4 talks showcased different research directions of the SMIEL: From Soft Wetting and Membrane Electrostatics to Polymer Brushes and 3-D printing
Story on Inverted Cheerios effect published on www.extracrispy.com, which is the breakfast site of TIME Magazine. Here is the story.
Dr. Siddhartha Das has been invited to serve as the Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports. He will serve in the Fluids and Plasma Physics category.
Soft Matter article titled “Elasto-electro-capillarity: drop equilibrium on a charged, elastic solid” of Jing, Shayandev and Dr. Das got published as a Back Cover Article of Soft Matter (here is the link to the Cover)
Guang Chen defends her PhD thesis…her dissertation topic “NANOCONFINED POLYELECTROLYTE BRUSHES: THERMODYNAMICS, ELECTROSTATICS AND TRANSPORT”. This is the first PhD from SMIEL. Heartiest Congratulations, Guang !!!!!!