- Peter wins Outstanding Junior Faculty Award!
Peter has been named a co-recipient of the College of Engineering Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award!
- Wentao joins the group!
Wentao Zhou has joined the group as a PhD student. He will be synthesizing rough colloids for developing stimuli responsive emulsions and environmental remediation. Welcome Wentao!
- New NSF Grant!
Our NSF Proposal “Exploiting the paradoxical effect of surface roughness on the interfacial pinning of colloids to engineer stimuli responsive emulsions” has been funded by the NSF Particulate & Multiphase Processes Program. We’re excited to develop rough colloids for stimuli responsive emulsions, with the long term goal of using them for environmental remediation. More information about the award can be found here.
- Paper Accepted to ACS AMI!
Our paper titled “The paradoxical behavior of rough colloids at fluid interfaces” was accepted to ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Awesome in situ interferometry experiments and analysis by Anis have shown that while roughness increases capillary attraction between spherical particles, it actually decreases capillary attraction between ellipsoids! We’re excited to extend these single-particle pinning results to see the impact on concentrated monolayer assembly and emulsion stability! (link)
- Paper published in Colloids and Interfaces
Our paper titled “Encapsulation of inorganic nanoparticles by anionic emulsion polymerization of methylene malonate for developing hybrid microparticles with tailorable composition” has been published in Colloids and Interfaces. In this work, we show how we can encapsulate inorganic nanoparticles within polymer microparticles. https://doi.org/10.3390/colloids8010010