| Areas of Research |
Self-Assembled Systems |
- molecular monolayers
- phospholipid bilayers
- surfactant-templated silica mesophases
- Colloidal crystals
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Physical Processes and Phenomena |
- self-assembly mechanisms
- templating effects
- phase stability and dynamics
- phase transitions
- dimensional confinement effects
- structure-dynamics-function relations
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| Projects |
Bio-mimetic Membrane Chemistry |
- micro-patterning of supported lipid bilayers
- Deep UV lithography of supported lipid bilayers
- reaction-diffusion studies in lipid bilayers
- Engineering functional sub-structures in bilayers
- phase separation in model membranes
- bilayers on nanoporous thin film mesophases
- membrane dynamics following protein-recognition
- modeling membrane curvatures
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Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter |
- chain-melting in restricted dimensional microstructures
- coupling phase transition across length scales: molecular to colloidal
- consequences of molecular-scale heterogenieties
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Molecular Basis of Apoptosis |
- femtosecond laser applications in apoptosis
- role of reactive oxygen species and ozone during the induction phase of apoptosis
- raft-raft coalescence during apoptosis
- ceramide plaffrom formation during apoptosis
- active recruitment of Fas proteins in lipid rafts during apoptosis
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Colloidal Crystals |
- Photonic Transduction of Biomolecular Recognition
- solvent confinement in colloidal crystal interstices, liquids in nanopores
- superhydrophobic effects
- membranes on curved templates
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| Surfactant-templated Assembly of Thin Film Silica Mesophases and Nanoporous Substrates |
- Molecular descriptions of Mechanisms of calcination
- UV Ozone Photochemistry
- micro-patterning and pattern enhancements
- Non-lithographic fabrication of self-standing films
- Optical Functionalization thin film Silica Mesophases
- Thermal Properties
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Organic-Inorganic Crystals |
- synthesis and characterization of novel silver(alkane)thiolates
- from monolayers to single crystals: thiol-coinage metal chemistry
- phase behavior in organic-inorganic crystals: chain-melting
- anisotropic charge transport in silver(alkane)thiolates
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