Experimental Soft Condensed
Matter Group

OLDER RESEARCH:

Defects in Liquid Crystals	Colloids and Surfactants	Emulsions	Colloidal Aggregates
Microscopic dynamics of the glass transition	Cracking of Viscoelastic Media	Multicolor Particle Tracking of Nanocrystals	Nucleation and growth of Colloidal Crystals
Weakly aggregating systems	Aging of Fractal Colloidal Gels	Probing Polymer Solutions using DWS	Calcite Crystals
Mixtures of Disks and Polymers (Shake Gels)	Bio-optics	Stability of Compressed Emulsions	Vesicles
Colloidal Pastes	Electro-sterically dispersing carbon particles in non-polar media	Gravity & Colloidal Aggregations	Attractive and Repulsive Colloidal Glasses
Binary Colloidal Crystals	Physics of Colloids in Space	Mechanics of Cytoplasm extracted from Xenopus Eggs	Entangled Actin Solutions
Microstructure Dynamics and Anomalous Diffusion in Entangled F-actin Networks	The Motion of a Brain Tumor in a Gel	Probing Heterogeneous Materials with Multiple Particle Tracking	Surface Chemistry Effects on Particle Tracking
Effect of Particle Size	Dripping to Jetting in Flow Focusing Devices	Polymer membranes	Colloidosomes
Porous Particles for Drug Delivery by Inhalation	Surface Light Scattering	Emulsification	Extensional Flow Breakup
Multicomponent Drops	Particle Segregation	Expansion Patterns	Boojums
Mixing in Microchannels	Discotic Colloids	Microfluidics and Complex Fluids	Frequency Doubling to Chaos
Surface modification of PDMS microfluidic devices with polyelectrolyte multilayers	Sedimentation at Low Reynolds number	Colloidal Drops on Hot Plates	Charging in Non-Polar Colloids
Flow and Fracture in Films	Dense Colloidal Gels	Slow Dynamics in Dense Colloidal Systems	Shear Cell for Confocal Studies
Deformation of Crystals and Glasses	Visualization of the electrical excitation in the heart	Structure and Drying Droplets of Polystyrene Colloidal Suspensions and Polyethylene Oxide	Transport in Living Cells
Length Scale Dependence of Actin Rheology	Encapsulation in polymer shells	High-throughput dielectric detection and characterization of material droplets	Quantum Dots as Biological Labels
Sedimentation	Structure and Dynamics of Reversible Physical Polymer Gels	Drop sorting using electric field	Enzyme-inhibitor assay using microdrops
Triple and Multiple Emulsions	Mechanics of cytoskeletal protein networks	Molecular Evolution	Shearing Actin Networks
Rheological Properties of Inhomogeneous Hydrogel Systems	The effect of the air/liquid interface on colloidal behavior	Preparation and Characterization of Monodisperse Stimuli-responsive Microspheres with Controllable Internal Structures	Non-Ionic Fluorosurfactants for Biological and Chemical Applications inside Aqueous and Organic Emulsion droplets
Colloidal Aggregation in Carbon Black Gels	Sedimenting Polydisperse Colloids	Microtubule Mechanics in Cells	Single Cell Chemical Sensing via Encapsulation Into Functionalized Polymer Shell
Uniform Microgels with Complex Structures	Engineering of Non-Spherical Colloidal Particles	Engineering materials with capillary-based microfluidic devices	Microgel Physics
Uniform Microgels with Complex Structures	Collapse of Colloidal Gells	Engineering Particle Systems for Pulmonary Drug Delivery	Nematic order in spherical shells
Microscopic origin of the nonlinear elasticity of actin-filamin networks	Physical Aspects of Cell Division	Mechanical Properties of Actin-α-Actinin Networks

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