Archive: News Story

• Recent Research from ISMSM Collaboration

  Updates on recent research and upcoming publications from Professor Kertesz of the ISMSM and collaborators concerning novel conjugated polymers and their properties.

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• Prof. Paranjape Publishes Paper in Langmuir

  Professor Paranjape, with graduate student O’Brien, recently published a paper introducing a model for the dynamic surface tension of surfactant-enhanced polydimethylsiloxane.

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• Updates for the Weiss Group

  A summary of the recent activity of the Weiss group, including a recent publication and presentations given.

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• Prof. Miklos Kertesz receives NSF Grant

  The project “Collaborative Research: Aggregation mechanisms in carbon nanomaterials based on pi-conjugated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons” joint between Miklos Kertesz (Department of Chemistry and ISMSM at Georgetown University) and Prof. Hans Lischka at Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX) received a new NSF grant

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• Professor Peter Olmsted Awarded National Science Foundation grant

  Professor Peter Olmsted was recently awarded an National Science Foundation grant on the topic of  "Integrated Material Design and Processing--Application to Recycled Plastics”. The project is part

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• Prof. Emanuela Del Gado and Post-doctoral Researcher Abhay Goyal Publish Paper in Science Advances

  Department of Physics and post-doctoral researcher Abhay Goyal create a novel model for studying the cohesive strength of cement in the hopes of creating greener infrastructure. 

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• Professor Peter Olmsted elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology

  Professor Peter Olmsted has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Rheology. Fellows are selected based on distinguished scientific achievement, significant technological accomplishment, and/or outstanding scholarship in the field of Rheology. Service to the Society is also an important component to Fellowship status.

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• Prof. Jeff Urbach on Podcast with Provost Groves

  As part of the Provost's Podcast: Faculty in Research, Prof. Jeff Urbach discussed his love of physics and his career in science with Provost Robert Groves. Listen to their conversation:  http://appl

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• Professor Daniel Blair and co-workers investigate viscosity of active microtubules

  In an article titled “Shear-Induced Gelation of Self-Yielding Active Networks”, recently published in Physical Review Letters, postdoctoral researchers David Gagnon and Claudia Dessi, Professor Daniel Blair, and their collaborators studied the rheology of microtubule-based active materials.

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• Pancake bonding pulls conjugated pi-radicals together to short maximum overlap configurations

  How do molecules stick together to form electronic conducting pathways? One mechanism for generating parallel pi-stacking geometry with maximum orbital overlap is obtained in a form of multicenter el

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