IRT3: Active and Reconfigurable Colloidal Soft Matter Interfaces

IRT 3 Members

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Ubaldo Córdova Figueroa

Dr. Ubaldo Córdova Figueroa is the Principal Investigator of IRT3. He is the Interine Vice President of the University of Puerto Rico.

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Claribel Acevedo Vélez

Dr. Claribel Acevedo Vélez is an assistant professor from the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Campus.

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Aldo Acevedo Rullán

Dr. Aldo Acevedo Rullán is an associate professor from the Chemical Engineering Department.

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Michael Graham

Dr. Michael Graham is a professor from the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department. His additional affiliations include Mechanical Engineering and Physics.

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Severio Spagnolie

Dr. Severio Spagnolie is an associate professor for the Mechanical Department and, by courtesy, for the Chemical and Biological Department at the University of Wisconsin.

Description

IRT3: Active and Reconfigurable Colloidal Soft Matter Interfaces focuses on the issues of  formation of nonequilibrium colloidal materials based on anisotropic and structured fluids. This IRT has taken the challenge of understanding the non-equilibrium behaviors of active colloids in complex fluids such as LCs has the potential to yield new approaches for the design of hierarchically structured and multifunctional colloidal materials for separations and catalysis.

IRT 3 is divided in three groups:

Dynamics of Active Particles in Anisotropic Media

Team: Dr. Córdova,  Dr. Abbott, Dr. Acevedo, Dr. Spagnolie and Dr. Graham

Scalable Synthesis of Active Colloids Templated from Liquid Crystals

Team: Dr. Córdova,  Dr. Abbott, Dr. Acevedo and Dr. Graham

Emergent Collective Behaviors of Active Colloids

Team: Dr. Spagnolie and Dr. Graham