Faculty Research Highlights
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Stress Relaxation in Arrested Soft Materials
![Large blue particles are the cornstarch grains, while the bright dots are small particles suspended in the fluid that act as tracers to reveal the fluid motion](https://softmatter.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/279/2022/08/Oobleck-Visual.png)
Structure of Oobleck
![Graph from research modeling how RNA splicing in Ewing sarcoma is quantified and characterized](https://softmatter.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/279/2022/06/image.png)
mRNA splicing in EwS
![3-D Molecular Structure demonstrating pyrene columns](https://softmatter.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/279/2022/08/IoM-Aug.png)
Uneven Charge Distribution
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Shear Thickening in Colloidal Suspensions
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Individual and sub-protein assembly on nanoscale polymeric surfaces different adsorption environments.
Proteins on Surfaces
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of a hydroxystearamide/silcone mixture formed by (a) fast or (b) slow cooling.
Oranogels
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AFM images of a hydroxystearamide/silcone gel before (A) and after (B) a helical fiber aggregate was cut and moved by the AFM tip.
Oranogels
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A silkworm surrounded by spun silk, and a confocal image of shear-induced silk fibers.
Confocal microscopy of silk proteints
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A model polar chiral filament (center, right), by symmetry, develops a spontaneous curvature at the air/water interface.
Helical protein fibers on interfaces
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Simulations of Cement Hydration
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Conformations of core-shell nanoparticles at a liquid interfaces from numerical simulations.
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Model of calcium-silicate-hydrate gels formed during cement hydration from numerical simulations.
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Stress localization in a model colloidal gel under shear.
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Computer simulation of phase separation in a highly polydisperse colloid.
polydisperse colloidal crystallization
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Computer simulation of phase separation in a lipid bilayer, which is thought to be related to the functioning of the cell membrane
lipid membrane phase separation
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A colorized SEM image of a nanocrystal of tetracyanoquinodimethane.
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Axon navigating in a 3D collagen gel. The actin from the axon is labeled in green, the microtubules red, and the collagen fibrils in magenta.
Confocal microscopy of axon growth
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Boundary stress microscopy of collagen networks
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3D confocal microscopy image a disordered aggregate formed by shearing a suspension of µm-scale rods.
Aggregation of rod-like colloids