Our primary interests are
- Transport phenomena at/across/near fluid interfaces
- Flow behavior of complex fluids with large interfaces.
Fluid/Fluid Interfaces
1. Bilayers (Skin care product for atopy)- A new technique for model lipid/polymeric bilayers
- Transport of small molecules across lipid/polymeric bilayers
- Interaction and dynamics of (large) molecules with lipid/polymeric bilayer
- Rheology of lipid bilayers + polymer complex
- Dilatational viscoelasticity for emulsion/foam stability
- Intermixing lipid/polymeric layers
- Rheology and phase behavior of polymeric nanoparticles
- Visualization of surfactant adsorption and desorption
Flow behavior of complex fluids
1. Flow behavior of complex fluids in porous media (Enhanced oil recovery)
- 3D flow visualization of viscoelastic fluids in porous media
- Capillary flow with complex fluids
- A new technique for extensional rheology
- Shear-extensional rheology effect on displacement oil in porous media
2. Froth flotation (Urban mining)
- Flow effect on bubble-particle collision
- Adsorption/desorption of particles to bubble
- Depletion induced particle adsorption
- Bubble-particle interaction
3. High interfacial materials
- Large scale synthesis of high internal phase emulsion (HIPE)
- Controlling properties and processing of HIPE
- Porous material synthesis from recycled materials
- High internal phase emulsion of liquid crystals