Siddhartha Das

Prof. Siddhartha Das gives a presentation on “Wetting of Complex Interfaces” at the ME@UMD seminar series.

SMIEL PhD student has been awarded the STLE Scholarship. He has received $2000 for this award.

Prof. Das will collaborate with Dr. Kumaran Ramamurthi of NCI to study Curvature-driven membrane-protein interactions

Prof. Das and Prof. Dasgupta teamed up to win this research grant. The UMD team collaborated with Lockheed Martin, GE Global Research, Optomec, Intrinsiq, and Binghamton University on this grant. Click here for the news.

Prof. Das hoods SMIEL’s first PhD Dr. Guang Chen. Here is the picture

In this paper, we develop a scaling theory and perform MD simulations to describe the equilibrium of polymer brushes in weak interpenetration regime. This is Parth’s first paper and Shayandev’s 13th paper from the group. More importantly, this is group’s first paper in MD simulations of polymer brushes….congrats!!!

In this paper, we use MD simulations to establish that drops spread on superhydrophobic surfaces by the bending of the air-liquid interface. This is Yanbin’s first first-authored paper and second paper from the group. This is also Joseph’s 3rd paper from the group.

GEMSTONE Team BACTERIA, mentored by Dr. Das, wins the Best Poster award for the GEMSTONE Junior Year Poster presentation. Here is the poster.

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In this paper, we employ MD simulations to discover a new mechanism for fabricating superhydrophobic graphene by using wetting-translucency property of graphene. This is Joseph’s 2nd, Shayandev’s 12th, and Yanbin’s 1st paper from the group. Congrats to all three !!!