Prof. Das delivers an invited talk titled “Modeling Transport in Microfluidic Systems: Towards Better Equipping Ourselves for Solving Biomedical Engineering Problems” at US Food and Drug Administration
June 2018: Prof. Das delivers an invited talk at FDA Read More »
In our 2015 Nature Communication paper, we have provided a force-based argument to explain the drop motion. A recent paper in PNAS claimed our theory to be flawed on the basis of an energy-dissipation-based argument. In this paper, which is a Letter to the Editor, we showed that the claim of this PNAS paper was
June 2018: Paper accepted in PNAS Read More »
In this paper, we propose a new design where biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs) use electrostatic interactions to simultaneously promote specific adhesion and prevent non-specific adhesion to plasma membranes.
May 2018: Paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters Read More »
In this paper, we study the force-driven translocation of a water nanodrop through a holey graphene matrix demonstrating a capillarity-mediated breakdown of Darcy’s Law.
May 2018: Paper accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry C Read More »
In this paper, we show that in nanochannels functionalized with end-charged polyelectrolyte brushes one can significantly augment the efficiency of the electrokinetic energy conversion.
May 2018: Paper accepted in Soft Matter Read More »
The thesis topic was “BILAYER MEMBRANE ELECTROSTATICS AND CHARGE-REGULATED MEMBRANE NANOPARTICLE INTERACTIONS”. Shayandev is 2nd PhD to graduate from SMIEL…many congratulations Shayandev
May 2018: Shayandev successfully defends his PhD Thesis Read More »
The topic of the thesis was “ENHANCED DIFFUSIOOSMOSIS AND THERMOOSMOSIS IN POLYELECTROLYTE-BRUSH-FUNCTIONALIZED NANOCHANNELS”. This is the second MS from SMIEL…Many congratulations Raja….
May 2018: Raja Maheedhara successfully defends his MS thesis Read More »
Prof. Siddhartha Das delivered an invited talk titled “Water and Ions at Nanoscopic Interfaces: From 2-D materials to plasma membranes” at the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) of the University of Waterloo.
April 2018: Prof. Das delivers invited talk at Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology Read More »
News story on the PRE article on the simulation and scaling theory of weakly interpenetrated polyelectrolyte brushes has been published on the UMD Mechanical Engineering website (link) and the A. James Clark School of Engineering Website (link).
April 2018: News story on PRE article Read More »
In this paper, we propose how surface charges on plasma membranes can favor non-specific adhesion of Nanoparticles to stiffer plasma membranes….This is Shayandev’s 19th paper, Haoyuan’s 7th paper, and Harnoor’s 2nd paper from the group. Congrats to all three of them !!!!
April 2018: Paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters Read More »