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Paper of Kyle, Fedra and Joseph published as cover article in the March issue of Colloids and Surfaces B. Here is the link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09277765/127. Heartiest congratulations to Kyle, Fedra and Joseph !!!!!!

Guang Chen successfully passes her Qualifying Exam. Congratulations Guang !!!!!

Shayandev Sinha has joined SMIEL for his PhD. Welcome on board Shayandev !!!!!!!!!

This paper provides a numerical model to calculate the electrostatic potential profile of a charged soft spherical particle with pH-dependent charge density. This work is of relevance to better understand the electrostatics of bio-species like MS2 bacteriophage virus. This is the first paper of my undergraduate researchers and summer intern, namely Kyle, Joseph and Fedra…..Congratulations

In this paper we provide a new integro-differential model to calculate the streaming potential and electroviscous effects in soft nanochannels beyond Debye-Hückel linearization. This is Guang’s second paper….Many congratulations Guang……

In this paper a novel Electron Force Microscopy based technique for measuring asphaltene native surface charge in air is proposed

News on Scientific Reports paper on Biofilm Streamers has been published in the front page of the website of the Department of  Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland. Here is the link: http://www.enme.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=8709

The paper provides the hitherto unknown electrostatics in PEL-grafted nanochannels with explicit consideration of hydrogen ion concentration. This is the first paper of Guang….Congratulations Guang!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr. Siddhartha Das delivers a lecture on “Soft Matter: Fundamentals and Applications” to the 1st year engineering students at the Howard Community College

The paper explains that low Reynolds number bacterial biofilm streamers form as highly viscous liquid jets – such a hypothesis can explain hitherto unexplained experimental findings related to bacterial biofilm streamers.