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The news stories appeared in UMDRIGHTNOW and enme.umd.edu

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

In this collaborative study with the group of Prof. Liangbing Hu in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UMD, we describe a reversed tree design of wood that utilizes the hierarchical micro-nanostructures of the wood and the long path length afforded by the “reverse” design for efficient filtration…SMIEL’s contribution in this paper is the

Chris Riso and Bhargav Chava have started as PhD and Dr. Yanbin Wang has started as a postdoc in SMIEL. Welcome all !!!!

Prof. Das’ name has been published as a new inductee as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the January 7 issue of the UK’s THE TIMES newspaper. The relevant photo of the front page of the newspaper can be found on this link, while the portion of the newspaper containing Prof. Das’

In this paper, we show the manner in which the electrostatics and van der Waals forces dictate the anti-biofouling action of dielectric coating. This is Ankit’s 2nd paper, Vishal’s 6th paper, and Harnoor’s 16th paper from the group. Congrats All !!!!

In this paper, we develop a numerical model to study the simultaneous spreading and curing of photopolymerizable polymer drop towards better understanding the on-spot photocuring in 3D printing applications. This is Vishal’s 5th, Harnoor’s 15th, and Shayandev’s 28th paper from the group. Big congrats to all !!!!!

SMIEL PhD student Harnoor Singh Sachar has been selected for A. James Clark School of Engineering Future Faculty Fellow for 2020. Many congratulations and extremely well deserved !!! Also, this is the 5th consecutive year where one of my Ph.D. students has been selected for the Future Faculty program (2016: Guang Chen; 2017: Shayandev Sinha;