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This paper shows how EDL effects can be used to separate water from water-in-oil emulsions….This is Shayandev’s 3rd paper from the group and also 1st paper of the undergraduate student Eric…..Congrats to both….

Guang Chen has been selected as a finalist for presentation in the C3E Women in Clean Energy symposium to be held in MIT in November, 2015…..here is her winning video…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG4jDjUIEJ8 Heartiest Congratulations Gunag

This paper provides a scaling law for nanochannels grafted with polyelectrolyte brushes and discovers the current inversion phenomenon in such nanochannels. This is Guang’s 5th paper in SMIEL…Congrats Guang !!!!!!!

This paper provides a method to measure and quantify the surface charge of clay nanoparticles.

This paper talks about a mathematical model for selection of appropriate separator for oil-water separation from oil-in-water and water-in-oil systems. This is the 1st paper on oil-water separation from the group. This is Shayandev’s 2nd paper in SMIEL…Congrats Shayandev…..

This paper provides a tutorial review on the recent developments on Polyelectrolyte Brushes. This is Dr. Das’ 1st collaborative paper with Prof. R. Mukherjee of IIT Kharagpur. This is also Guang’s 4th and Shayandev’s 1st paper in SMIEL. Many congrats to both of them !!!!!!!!

Four new MS students (Hao, Parth, Jing and Huidong) join SMIEL for this Fall. Joseph, after completing his undergraduate studies, also starts his MS in SMIEL from this Fall. Welcome everybody…..

News story on our paper published in Nature Communications has been published separately in the webpage of Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (http://enme.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=9187) and University of Twente (http://www.utwente.nl/en/news/!/2015/8/412911/surfing-droplets-in-nature-communications).

This paper talks about the dynamics of microfluidic streamer formation from bacterial flocs. This work has been done in collaboration with researchers from University of Alberta and Northeastern University.

This paper talks about the dynamics of a liquid drop on a soft surface. This work is a culmination of a work that Prof. Das started in 2011 during his Postdoctoral tenure in University of Twente. This is till date the highest impact paper of Prof. Das.