September 2022: Paper Accepted in Nanoscale
In this paper, we review the Applications, Fluid Mechanics, and Colloidal Science of Carbon-Nanotube-based 3D…
July 2022: Paper Accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
In this paper, we employ atomistic simulations to devise a strategy of establishing stable contacts…
July 2022: SMIEL Ph.D. students win STLE Fellowships
SMIEL Ph.D. students Vishal Sankar Sivasankar and Bhargav Sai Chava have won the STLE (Society…
July 2022: Prof. Das Elected as the Fellow of IET
Prof. Das has been elected as the Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology…
June 2022: Paper accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
In this paper, we employ molecular simulations to show the pronounced effect of localized heating…
May 2022: Prof. Das Recognized as Soft Matter Emerging Investigator
As a part of this recognition, Prof. Das has been invited to contribute an article…
April 2022: Harnoor wins the Department’s 2021 Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
SMIEL former Ph.D. student Dr. Harnoor Singh Sachar won the best Ph.D. dissertation thesis of…
April 2022: Paper accepted in Physics of Fluids
In this paper, we develop a computational model to probe the two-phase particle-liquid transport in…
April 2022: Parth defends his Ph.D. Dissertation
SMIEL Ph.D. student Parth Rakesh Desai successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation on “EFFECT OF MISMATCHED…
March 2022: Turash defends his Ph.D. Dissertation
SMIEL Ph.D. student Md. Turash Haque Pial successfully defends his Ph.D. dissertation on “ATOMISTIC EXPLORATION OF DENSELY-GRAFTED…
March 2022: Prof. Das delivers invited talk in ACS Spring 2022 meeting
Prof. Das delivered an in-person invited talk in this meeting. The title of the talk…
March 2022: SMIEL Group visits APS March 2022
Prof. Das and other students of SMIEL visit and present their research in APS March…
March 2022: Paper Accepted in Macromolecules
In this paper, we discuss the effect of applied electric field in charge-density-dependent response of…
March 2022: Paper Accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry C
In this paper, we provide a review of the physically soft magnetic films and devices….
February 2022: U.S. DOE shares news about recent funding to SMIEL on its twitter handle
The news of U.S. DOE’s recent funding to SMIEL on modeling of polyelectrolyte brushes has…
January 2022: SMIEL group receives funding from U.S. DOE
The project titled “Thermodynamics, Electroosmosis, and Electrokinetic Energy Generation in Nanochannels Functionalized with Anionic and…
January 2022: Paper Accepted in Physics of Fluids
In this paper, we develop an analytical model to quantify the ionic and non-ionic Diffusioosmotic…
December 2021: SMIEL Ph.D. students Bhargav and Vishal selected for Future Faculty Program 2022
Two of SMIEL’s Ph.D. students, Bhargav Sai Chava and Vishal Sankar Sivasankar have been selected…
December 2021: Prof. Das delivers invited Talk at Complex Fluids 2021
In CompFlu 2021 (Complex Fluids 2021), organized by IIT Gandhinagar & The Indian Society of…
November 2021: Prof. Siddhartha Das has received the 2021 Junior Faculty Outstanding Research Award by the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland
This award recognizes one faculty member from the A. James Clark School of Engineering who is within…
October 2021: Paper Accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
In this paper, we develop atomistic simulation models to probe the shear thinning behavior and…
October 2021: Paper Accepted in LANGMUIR
In this paper, we develop numerical models for probing the effect of the drop impact…
October 2021: Prof. Das has been recognized as a VEBLEO Fellow
Prof. Das has been recognized as a VEBLEO Fellow and delivered a keynote talk titled…
September 2021: Paper Accepted in ACS Nano
In this paper, we employ all-atom molecular dynamics simulations to demonstrate in nanochannels grafted with…
September 2021: Paper accepted in Additive Manufacturing
In this paper, we discuss certain salient challenges and issues associated with Aerosol Jet Printing.
August 2021: Two new PhD students start at SMIEL
This Fall, Mr. Raashiq Ishraaq and Mr. Ghansham Channel have started their Ph.D. journey at…
July 2021: Paper accepted in SMALL
In this collaborative study with the group of Prof. Liangbing Hu in the Department of…
July 2020: Turash Haque Pial wins the STLE Scholarship
SMIEL Ph.D. student Turash Haque Pial wins the STLE (Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineering)…
June 2021: Paper Accepted in Macromolecules
In this paper, we employ all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for studying the temperature response…
June 2021: Funding received from NextFlex
Das group has received funding from NextFlex on a project dedicated to study the reliability…
June 2021: Paper Accepted in Journal of Physical Chemistry C
In this paper, we discover through simulations a new material: nanotube-salt-water hybrid, where water is…
May 2021: Paper Accepted for Publication in Additive Manufacturing
In this paper, we report the fabrication and performance of all additively manufactured conical inductors….
April 2021: Paper accepted in Macromolecules
In this paper, we quantify the effect of monovalent and multi-valent counterions in bridging interactions…
April 2021: Dr. Xiao Zhang joins SMIEL as a postdoctoral researcher
Dr. Xiao Zhang has joined SMIEL as a postdoctoral researcher to work on printed electronics….
March 2021: Harnoor Singh Sachar successfully defends his thesis
Harnoor Singh Sachar (Ph.D. student fo SMIEL) defends his thesis (titled: “ATOMISTIC AND THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION…
March 2021: Selection of Prof. Das as PCCP Emerging Investigator has been covered as a story in Mechanical Engineering and Clark School websites
Here are the links: Website of Mechanical Engineering Website of Clark School of Engineering
March 2021: Paper accepted in ACS Nano
In this paper, we employ all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the electroosmotic transport…
March 2021: Paper accepted in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
In this paper, we study the thermoosmotic transport in nanochannels grafted with polyelectrolyte (PE) brushes…
March 2021: Prof. Das delivers an invited talk for an AICTE program organized by NIT Silchar
Prof. Das delivered an invited talk on the topic “Computational Thermo-Fluidics for Modeling the Aerosol…
February 2021: Prof. Das selected for invitation to the 2021 inaugural PCCP Emerging Investigators Themed Issue.
Prof. Das has been selected for invitation to the 2021 inaugural PCCP (Physical Chemistry Chemical…
February 2021: Guang Chen to start as Assistant Professor at Peking University, China
SMIEL’s 1st Ph.D. student and also SMIEL postdoc Dr. Gunag Chen will be starting as…
February 2021: Paper accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
This paper develops ultrathin and ultra-sensitive CNT-based printed sensors capable of multiple uses on surfaces…
February 2021: Chenglin Yi joins NWPU as an Assistant Professor
Former SMIEL postdoc Dr. Chenglin Yi has joined the Mechanical Engineering School of the Northwestern…
January 2021: Prof. Das Elected as the Fellow of the Institute of Physics, U.K.
Prof. Siddhartha Das has been elected as the Fellow of the Institute of Physics, U.K.
January 2021: Paper accepted in Macromolecules
In this paper, we discover the effect the presence of the polyelectrolyte (PE) brush induced…
January 2021: Mihir and Swarup join SMIEL
Two new graduate students, Mihirkumar Prajapati and Swarup Subudhi have joined SMIEL. Mihir will pursue…
January 2021: Paper accepted in Macromolecules
In this paper, we employ molecular dynamics simulations to study the drop imbibition dynamics in…
December 2020: Sai Ankit Etha selected for the UMD’s Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant
SMIEL’s current Ph.D. student Sai Ankit Etha has been selected for the UMD’s Graduate School’s…
December 2020: Sai Ankit Etha and Turash Haque Pial have been selected for 2021 Future Faculty Fellowship Program
Current SMIEL Ph.D. students Turash Haque Pial and Sad Ankit Etha have been selected for…
December 2020: Paper accepted in PLOS ONE
In this paper, which is a collaborative work with the NIH, we show the lack…
November 2020: Harnoor selected as one of the finalists for the Frank J. Padden Jr. Award
SMIEL Ph.D. student Harnoor Singh Sachar has been selected as one of the finalists for…
November 2020: Haoyuan Jing successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis
Haoyuan Jing successfully defends his Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Phospholipid Behavior and Dynamics in…
October 2020: Prof. Das is a part of a research team that receives funding from ARL
The project, which aims to advance Additive Manufacturing Technology, will provide the research team a…
October 2020: Prof. Das selected in UMD Research Leaders Fellows Program
“The University of Maryland’s Research Leaders Fellows Program is designed to accelerate the growth and…
October 2020: Paper accepted in Cell Reports Physical Sciences
This paper explores the possibility of localizing water-free anion at negative electrode using Boron Nitride…
September 2020: Paper Accepted in Nucleic Acids Research
In this paper, we employ coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations to study the effect of base-pair…
August 2020: Vishal Sankar Sivasankar successfully defends his M.S. thesis
Vishal Sankar Sivasankar siccessfully defends his M.S. thesis on the topic “Electrokinetic transport in nanochannels…
July 2020: Paper Accepted for Publication in Soft Matter
In this paper, we study the effect of charge Density on the properties of polyelectrolyte…
July 2020: Paper accepted in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
The paper employs molecular dynamics simulations for studying friction in graphene channels of height less…
July 2020: Harnoor wins the STLE Scholarship
SMIEL Ph.D. student Harnoor Singh Sachar wins the STLE (Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineering)…
June 2020: Invited Talk in Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering (a Virtual Conference)
Prof. Siddhartha Das delivered an invited talk on “Structure, Energetics, and Protein Sensing of Curved…
June 2020: Paper accepted in Physical Review E
In this paper, we report the theoretical model on the massive increase in electroosmotic transport…
May 2020: Paper Accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
In this paper, we develop a new theory to study the behavior, configuration, and electrostatics…
May 2020: Paper accepted in Langmuir
In this paper, we study the structure of nanoparticle-supported Lipid Bilayers formed by self-assembly mechanism….
March 2020: Paper Accepted in Physics of Fluids
In this paper, we study the diffusioosmotic transport (in presence of an applied salt concentration…
March 2020: News story on the MATTER paper on all-atom MD simulations of PE brushes published
The news stories appeared in UMDRIGHTNOW and enme.umd.edu
February 2020: Enrique Wagemann starts as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Enrique Wagemann (a joint postdoc working with Prof. Sushanta Mitra at University of Waterloo and…
February 2020: Paper accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
In this paper, which is a collaborative effort with Prof. Sushanta Mitra of University of…
February 2020: Paper accepted in MATTER
In this paper, we provide the first all-atom molecular dynamics simulation model to study the…
February 2020: Paper accepted in Chemistry of Materials
In this collaborative study with the group of Prof. Liangbing Hu in the Department of…
January 2020: Two new PhDs and one new Postdoc join SMIEL
Chris Riso and Bhargav Chava have started as PhD and Dr. Yanbin Wang has started…
January 2020: Prof. Das’ name published in the UK’s THE TIMES newspaper
Prof. Das’ name has been published as a new inductee as a Fellow of the…
January 2020: Paper accepted in ELECTROPHORESIS
In this paper, we show the manner in which the electrostatics and van der Waals…
January 2020: Paper Accepted in ACS Applied Polymer Materials
In this paper, we develop a numerical model to study the simultaneous spreading and curing…
January 2020: Harnoor Singh Sachar selected for A. James Clark School of Engineering Future Faculty Fellow for 2020
SMIEL PhD student Harnoor Singh Sachar has been selected for A. James Clark School of…
January 2020: Paper accepted in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
In this paper, which is a collaborative effort with Prof. Sushanta Mitra of University of…
December 2019: Prof. Siddhartha Das chosen as one of the Honorees in UMD’s Maryland Research Excellence Celebration
Prof. Siddhartha Das has been chosen as one of the Honorees in the UMD’s Maryland…
December 2019: Harnoor chosen to receive Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award.
SMIEL PhD student Harnoor Singh Sachar has been chosen as one of the Mechanical Engineering…
December 2019: Paper accepted in Advanced Functional Materials
In this collaborative work, we report the use of thermally conductive hexagonal Boron Nitride coating…
December 2019: Funding Received from AMMP (NCMS)
The funding is for the project “Additive Manufacturing of Microscale Inductors for RF Applications”. Prof….
November 2019: Paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters
In this paper, we employ Molecular Dynamics simulations to establish the non-monotonic density dependence of…
November 2019: Paper accepted in Nanoscale
In this paper, we show that the arrest of coffee-stain effect makes the Carbon-Nanotube-Graphene-Oxide Ink…
November 2019: Yanbin successfully defends his PhD Dissertation
Yanbin is the 3rd PhD from the group. His thesis is on “WATER, ION, AND…
October 2019: Prof. Das selected for invitation to the inaugural PCCP Emerging Investigators Themed Issue.
As an invited contributor, Prof. Das have been nominated as an up-and-coming researcher in physical…
October 2019: Prof. Das receives funding from Lockheed Martins
Through this funding, Prof. Das will employ Additive Manufacturing techniques for sustainability. Prof. Abhijit Dasgupta…
September 2019: Prof. Das selected as the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Prof. Das has been honored. He was been selected as the Fellow of the Royal…
September 2019: Paper accepted in Electrophoresis
In this paper we provide a theory to quantify the ionic current in nanochannels grafted…
September 2019: Paper accepted in Additive Manufacturing
Paper has been accepted in extremely high impact factor (>7) journal Additive Manufacturing. We report…
August 2019: Paper Accepted in ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging
In this paper, we study the role of gas flow rate on the quality of…
August 2019: Prof. Das wins his first NSF grant
Prof. Das has been awarded his first NSF (National Science Foundation) grant, titled “Surface Effects…
August 2019: Prof. Das starts as an Associate Professor
Prof. Siddhartha Das has started his tenure as an Associate Professor in the Department of…
July 2019: Paper accepted in Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
In this paper, we study the possible crack formation in Aerosol Jet 3D Printed traces….
June 2019: Paper Accepted in Soft Matter
In this paper, we study the electrokinetic energy generation in nanochannels grafted with pH-responsive polyelectrolyte…
June 2019: Paper accepted in Matter
In this paper, we use MD simulations to show that a liquid drop behaves a…
May 2019: Prof. Das is promoted to Associate Professorship with Tenure
Prof. Siddhartha Das has been promoted to the position of Associate Professorship with tenure in…
April 2019: Shayandev Sinha wins the University of Maryland Mechanical Engineering 2018 Best Dissertation Award
Congratulations Shayandev…..This award recognizes Shayandev’s thesis titled “Bilayer Membrane Electrostatics and Charge-Regulated Membrane-Nanoparticle Interactions”. Shayandev…
April 2019: Paper accepted in Applied Physics Letters
In this collaborative paper with the group of Prof. Thomas Thundat of SUNY Buffalo, a…
April 2019: Paper accepted in Energy and Environmental Science
In this collaborative work with the group of Prof. Liangbing Hu, a stable, salt-resistant solar…
February 2019: Prof. Das honored at the Inaugural Maryland Research Excellence Celebration
Prof. Das has been honored at the UMD’s Inaugural Maryland Research Excellence Celebration. This is…
February 2019: Paper accepted in Langmuir
In this paper, we discuss the electrostatics and interactions of a silica Nanoparticle approaching the…