Droplet-Based Membranous Soft Materials

Soft Materials Based on Vesicles and Biopolymers

Title of Dissertation: SOFT MATERIALS BASED ON VESICLES AND BIOPOLYMERS JAE-HO LEE, DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, 2006 Directed By: PROFESSOR SRINIVASA R. RAGHAVAN, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING Vesicles are hollow spherical structures formed by the self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules in aqueous solution. They are of great interest for applications ranging from drug delivery and ...

Optomechanics of Soft Materials

Some molecules change shape upon receiving photons of certain frequencies, but here we study light-induced deformation in ordinary dielectrics with no special optical effects. All dielectrics deform in response to light of all frequencies. We derive a dimensionless number to estimate when light can induce large deformation. For a structure made of soft dielectrics, with feature size comparable ...

Rheology of Soft Materials

Research on soft materials, including colloidal suspensions, glasses, pastes, emulsions, foams, polymer networks, liquid crystals, granular materials, and cells, has captured the interest of scientists and engineers in fields ranging from physics and chemical engineering to materials science and cell biology. Recent advances in rheological methods to probe mechanical responses of these complex ...

Sensors based on soft magnetic materials Panel discussion

The economic realities of productivity, quality and reliability for the industrial societies of the 21th century are placing major demands on existing manufacturing technologies. To meet both present and anticipated requirements, new and improved methods are needed. To be e!ective, the measurement, electronics and control components, and sub-systems, in particular sensors and sensor systems, ha...

Effective Interactions in Soft Materials