April 2024
- Chiraz‘ paper on the Self-Assembly of Rod-Coil-Rod Block Copolymers in a Coil-Selective Solvent has been published in Soft Matter!
- Carlos‘ paper on the Structure and Organization of Amphiphilic Mikto-Grafted Molecular Brushes at Liquid/Liquid Planar Interfaces has been published in Macromolecules!
March 2024
- Carlos, Aldo and Grant presented their research at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis.
February 2024
- The group welcomes Lorenzo Abelar as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be doing research on the Bottlebrush Block Copolymers at Interfaces.
September 2023
- Carlos‘ paper on the Conformations of Comb-like Polymers in Solution has been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics!
- The group welcomes Josiah Sparks as a Master’s Research Student. He will be doing research on the self-assembly of Janus colloids in nematic liquid crystals.
- The group welcomes Dawson Johnson as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be doing research on the self-assembly of Janus colloids at liquid-liquid interfaces.
March 2023
- Carlos Padilla and Carlos Salinas presented their research at the APS March Meeting in Las Vegas.
February 2023
- Tae-Yi’s paper on the Solution Self-Assembly of ABCBA Pentablock Copolymers has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B!
January 2023
- The group welcomes Chiraz Toujani as a Graduate Research Student. She will be doing research on Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Molecular Polymers in Solution.
November 2022
- The group welcomes Grant Kolacny as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be doing research on the solution self-assembly of pentablock copolymers.
September 2022
- The group welcomes Aldo Vasquez Briceno as a Graduate Research Student. He will be doing research on Polymer-Stabilized Liquid-Liquid Interfaces using atomistic simulations.
- Carlos Andres’ paper on the Hydrophobic Solute Encapsulation by Amphiphilic Mikto-Grafted Bottlebrushes has been published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials!
May 2022
- The group welcomes Marisol Dorado as an Undergraduate Research Student. She will be doing research on Complex Polymers at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces.
April 2022
- The group welcomes Carlos Padilla as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be doing research on Polymer-Stabilized Oil-Water Emulsions.
January 2022
- The group welcomes Ivana Herrera as an Undergraduate Research Student. She will be doing research on Encapsulation of Anisotropic Solutes by Complex Polymers .
- The group welcomes Sarah Anzaldua as an Undergraduate Research Student. She will be doing research on the Complex Polymers at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces.
December 2021
- Luis and Andres paper on the Dynamics and phase behavior of two-dimensional size-asymmetric binary mixtures has been published in The Journal of Chemical Physics!
November 2021
- The group welcomes Tae-Yi as a Visiting Graduate Research Assistant. She will be doing research on solution self-assembly of pentablock polymers.
April 2021
January 2021
- The group welcomes Carlos A. Salinas Soto as a Graduate Student. He will be doing research on polymers with complex architectures.
November 2020
- Luis‘ paper on the Phase behavior of 2D colloidal nanocrystals is out!
June 2020
- The group welcomes Christina Zhang as an Undergraduate Research Student. She will be doing research on the Numerical Modeling of Liquid Crystals.
- The group welcomes Shayma Mersani as an Undergraduate Research Student. She will be working on Self-Assembly of Peptide-Amphiphiles.
- The group welcomes Andres Leon Islas as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be working on Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Synthetic an Bio-Polymers.
May 2020
- The group welcomes Aldo Vasquez as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be doing research on Self-Assembly of Chlorophyll-based Materials.
- The group welcomes Isaac Castro as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be working on Reaction-Diffusion Processes and Dynamic Self-Assembly.
- The group welcomes Alberto Samaniego as a Research Student. He will be doing research on the Self-Assembly of Polymers with Complex Architectures.
May 2020
- Bahar‘s paper on the Self-Assembly of Mikto-Grafted Bottlebrushes has been published!
March 2020
- Luis‘ paper on the Phase behavior of a two-dimensional core-softened system is out!
January 2020
- The group welcomes Nour Alhraki as an Undergraduate Research Student. She will be doing research on rod-coil block polymer self-assembly.
- The group welcomes Jesse Funkhouser as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be doing research on binary mixtures of nanoparticles.
October 2019
- The group welcomes Zahra Rajabi as PhD student. She will be doing research on self-assembly of colloidal materials.
September 2019
- The group welcomes Sarah Pew as an Undergraduate Research Student. She will be doing research on reaction-diffusion phenomena and dissipative self-assembly.
June 2019
- The group welcomes Juan G. Leon Islas as an Undergraduate Research Student. He will be working on coarse-grained models of polymers with complex architecture.
April 2019
- The group welcomes J. Ivan Amaro as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He will be doing research on peptide-amphiphile polymers, and coarse grain modeling of supramolecular materials.
February 2019
- The group welcomes Luis Padilla as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He will be doing research on self-assembly of nanoparticles and responsive polymers.
January 2019
- Ahmed Ben Sahil and Bahar Gumus join the group as PhD students!