Non-equilibrium Soft Matter

Welcome to our group homepage.

Our group explores the non-equilibrium behavior of soft materials – from blood rheology to active biomembranes. This is a research area at the interface between condensed matter physics, materials science, applied math, and biology. Our work combines theory and experiment, and blends ideas from different disciplines as we try to understand to relation between dynamics at the nano-, micro- and macro-scales. We are particularly interested in biology inspired designs for micro- and nano-fluidic applications, for example, "soft" structures from self-assembled bilayer membranes.

Updates

September, 2009
Paul has defended his MS thesis. Congratulations! (Video)
August, 2009
Paul’s poster “Drop electro-hydrodynamics” was selected for an oral presentation at the Gordon Research Conference “Soft matter physics meets biology”
June 22 - July 04, 2009
Summer School on Complex- and Bio- Fluids in Cargese (Corsica Island)
February, 2009
Petia has received a NSF-CAREER award
Deformation of a surfactant-covered drop in linear flows: the evolution equations

Collaborators

Rumy Dimova, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Michael Miksis, Northwestern University
Chaouqi Misbah, Grenoble
Tom Powers, Brown University
Yuan-nan Young, NJIT

People

001 Petia Vlahovska
Assistant Professor
Thayer School of Engineering

Petia.M.Vlahovska@Dartmouth.edu

004 James Hanna
Post-doc Researcher

006 Paul Salipante
PhD student

014 Scott Decker
MS student

008 Claudine Gregorio
Undergraduate Research Assistant

012 Xue (Shelly) Han
Undergraduate WISP intern