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In this paper, Dr. Das and his students collaborate with Prof. Bing Hu of Materials Science and Engineering, UMD to study the property of wood nanochannels as wood carbon monolith reactor.

SMIEL has received funding from CECD (Center for Engineering Concepts Development), UMD for the proposal “Probing Water–Holey-Graphene interactions for Removing Lead from Water and Oil-Water Separation”.

News on the PCCP Cover article on graphene’s wetting dynamics has been published on the web page of Department of Mechanical Engineering with the title “Exploration of Graphene’s Wetting Dynamics Could Open New Possibilities in Fluid Mechanics of Two-Dimensional Materials“.

SMIEL is the part of the $3.1M proposal winning team. Funding is coming from NextFlex and UMD (headed by Dr. Siddhartha Das) share is $500K. In this proposal, the UMD team will collaborate with Lockheed Martin, GE-Global Research, Optomec, Binghampton University, and Intrinsiq Materials on 3-D printing onto complex surfaces. This is till date the

Joseph’s paper on wetting of graphene published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics has been selected as the Inside Front Cover of the journal.

This funding will help Dr. Das work with a NAVAIR expert to 3-D print composite structures for aviation applications.

Joseph Andrews defends his MS Thesis on “Wetting of Graphene” He becomes the first graduate from SMIEL. Heartiest congratulations to you Joseph!!! Wishing you tremendous success to all your future endeavors.

This paper describes the pH-dependent electrostatics of spherical polyelectrolyte brushes in the decoupled regime. This is Guang’s 9th paper and Hao’s (former student) 2nd paper from the group….Congratulations to both !!!!

This paper discusses the role of solvent polarization and finite ion size effects in electroosmotic transport in nanofluidic channels. This is Shayandev’s seventh paper and Lucas’ first paper from the group. Congratulations to both !!!!!!

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