Current Group Members

Brian McKenzie

Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Florida

Tsung-Lin Hsieh

Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Madeline Sauleda

Ph.D. Student, Physics, Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Physics, University of Massacusetts, Amherst

Angela Yang

Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California

Past Group Members

Past Graduate Students Name Thesis Title Lena Asavathiratham Image Analysis as a Tool to Study Electrokinetics of Heterogeneously Charged Colloids Benjamin Beppler Deposition Through Moving Contact Lines William Birch The Microscopic and Molecular Structure of Precursing Thin Films of Surfactant Solutions on Silicon Oxide/Silicon Surfaces Sebastian Catana Tangential Forces between Spheres of Colloidal Doublets Qun Chen Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Wetting Models: Interface Shapes and Velocity Fields Near the Moving Contact Line Xia Chen Effects of Thin and Ultra-Thin Liquid Films on Dynamic Wetting Chiung-Hsuan Chung Marangoni Driven Flow of Surfactant Solutions on Polymer Solution Subphase Eldon Decker Contact Line Structure and Relaxation on Surfaces with Contact Angle Hysteresis Dimitar Draganov Transition Region and Precursing Films of Polymer Melts Benjamin Frank Surfactant elf-Assembly Near Contact Lines: Control of Advancing Surfactant Solutions Xiaotong Fu Development of an Apparatus and Analysis Method for Characterizing Marangoni Spreading on Grooved Surfaces Jason Hamm Redispersion of Polymer Coated Colloidal Aggregates with Changing Solvent Quality Keith Humfeld Interface Shapes and Thing Film Structures of Complete Partial, and Pseudo Partial Wetting Systems Steven Iasella Surfactant Driven Pulmonary Drug Delivery Parv Jain Dissolution of a Physically Entangled Polymer Solution at a Few Times the Overlap Concentration Roomi Kalita Incomplete Spreading of Surfactants and Surfactant Solutions on Liquid Subphases: A Proof of Surfactant Moving Ahead of Contact Lines and the Origin of Autophobing Anubhav Khana Impact of Cosurfactants on Marangoni Spreading at the Oil/Water Interface Amsul Khanal Spreading of Surfactant-Laden Aerosols on Entangled Polymer Solution Subphases Junhyung Kim Dynamics of Particles in Spatially and Temporally Varying Electric Fields Near Electrodes Kevin Koch Surface Tension Gradient Driven Flows on Complex Subphases Barry Luokkala InterfacialnStructure and Rearrangement of Nonionic Surfactants Near a RecedingnContact Line John Marsh Dynamic Contact Angles and Hydrodynamics Near a Moving Contact Line Jaehyun Moon The wetting characteristics and diffusive growth of precursing films in single and multi component metallic systms Gurudatta Nadkarni The Complex Microscopic Contact Line Motion On Ambient Surfaces Jingyi Pan Marangoni Transport Synergism at the Oil/Water Interface Caused by Surfactant Convective-Diffusion under Radial Flow Aditya Patel Preparation and Characterization of Powders for Surfactant Driven Marangoni Spreading Dan Qu Hydrodynamics of Dip-Coated Thin Films in the Presence of Evaporation and Surfactant Structures Controlling Spontaneous Dewetting Gitanjali Seevaratnam Dynamic Wetting of Non-Newtonian Fluids Ramankur Sharma Spreading and Wetting Characteristics of a Drop of Pure Surfactant and Surfactant Solution on Liquid Subphases Sneha H. Solanki Comparison of Surfactant Effectiveness in Enhancing Deposited Aerosol Spreading with Applicaiton to Pulmonary Delivery Amy Stetten Capillary and Transport Phenomena of Liquid Drops Spreading on Miscible Liquid Subphases Kroum Stoev Thin Film and Inertial Effects on the Hydrodynamics Near Moving Contact Lines Ningguan Sun The Effect of Surfactant Concentration on Surfactant-driven Marangoni Flow Yue Suo Unsteady Spreading of Newtonian Fluids and Dynamic Wetting of Shear-Thinning Fluids Kalyani Varanasi Dynamic Wetting at Receding Contact Lines of Soluble Surfactant Solutions: Hydrodynamics and Molecular Assemblies Darrell Velegol Determining the Forces between Colloidal Particles Using Differential Electrophoresis Yuli Wei Dynamic Wetting of Viscous and Vicoelastic Fluids Keith Willson Dynamic Wetting of Polyer Melts- And Investigation of the Role of Material Properties and the Inner Scale Hydrodynamics Haichao Wu Marangoni Driven Dewetting of Thin Liquid Layers in a Cylinder Bingfan Xie Marangoni Flow on a Thin Liquid Layer in a Vertical Tube Xin Zhang The Effects of Powder Composition on Surfactant Driven Marangoni Transport Ying Zhang Coalescence of Sessile Drops: The Role of Gravity, Interfacial Tensions and Surface Wettability Yuqi Zhang The Impact of a Gel Substrate on the Marangoni Driven Spreading on a Simple Liquid Layer Zechen Zhang Detection of Marangoni Flow Driven Drug Delivery Mengjie Zhoa Production and Characterization of Self-Dispersing Particles   Post Doctoral Research Associates Henry Chu 2018-2020 Gunnar Duner 2013-2016 Nitin Kumar 2001-2003 Enrique Ramé 1993-1996   Current and Recent Collaborators Name Affiliation Günter K. Auernhammer Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Hans-Jürgen Butt Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research Tim Corcoran School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh Felix Gerlach Technical University of Darmstadt Germany Vignesh Thammanna Gurumurthy Technical University of Darmstadt Germany Aditya Khair Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Selin Manukyan Technical University of Darmstadt Germany Ilia Roismann Technical University of Darmstadt Germany Benedikt Straub Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research Robert Tilton Biomedical and Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Cam Tropea Technical University of Darmstadt Germany Xiang Wang Technical University of Darmstadt Germany