9. Jan. 2024: New term, new students! Welcome to Quang Ngo and Anson Thambi!
27. Oct. 2023: Good things come in threes. In October, we've had three paper acceptances: our collaborative work in Nanoscale, with the group of Dhruv P. Singh (IIT Bhilai); our collaborative work in Soft Matter, with the group of Lucio Isa (ETH Zürich) and Mihail Popescu (U. Seville); and Ruben's paper in Physical Review Fluids on bound states of spheroidal squirmers.
9. May 2023: We've been awarded an $800,000 grant from the DoD Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority-Serving Institutions (HBCU/MSI) Research and Education Program. Check out this DoD news release! Our project concerns using shape heterogeneity to engineer self-organization in suspensions of microswimmers.
28. Mar. 2023: Congratulations to DR. Ruben Poehnl on a successful Ph.D. defense!
24. Dec. 2022: We cordially invite active matter researchers worldwide to the workshop Active Matter at Surfaces and in Complex Environments taking place at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany in June 2023. More details and the application form are available here.
25. Nov. 2022: Congratulations to Liliana for winning a second round of UROP funding for her work on ICEP swimmers!
21. Sep. 2022: Dr. Uspal has been appointed as DAAD research ambassador for Germany. Please send him your questions about undergraduate and graduate research opportunities in DE!
28. Apr. 2022: Congratulations to Viviana for passing her Qualifying Exam with flying colors!
4. Apr. 2022: Thanks to Liliana for showing her experimental work to admitted students on Manoa Experience Preview Day. Thanks also to Ruben for helping explain the theoretical background and context to interested students and parents.
1. Mar. 2022: Our collaborative work with Dr. Juliane Simmchen (TU Dresden) on rheotaxis has been published in ACS Nano!
21. Nov. 2021: Rumen has arrived after an arduous journey from the Netherlands! Rumen will be working as a postdoc, co-advised by Prof. David Ma. He has expertise in Stokes flow and statistical mechanics. Welcome!
18. Nov. 2021: Congratulations to Liliana for approval of her UROP funding application! Liliana will be studying the self-propulsion of Janus particles by induced charged electrophoresis (ICEP).
18. Nov. 2021: Congratulations to Ruben for passing his comprehensive examination for admission to Ph.D. candidacy!
13. Oct. 2021: Our article in JFM has been featured in a nice article in UH News.
20. Sep. 2021: Ruben's paper on self-phoretic helical particles has been accepted to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics!
26. Aug. 2021: Viviana, a new Ph.D. student, has arrived in Honolulu after her stay at MPI-IS in Stuttgart. Thanks to her gracious hosts, Dr. Popescu and Prof. Dietrich, for helping us finding a solution to the COVID-19 travel situation.
2. Dec. 2020: Our grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund has been featured in UH news.
7. Nov. 2020: Check out this nice feature in SciTech News on our collaboration with researchers at TU Delft concerning how to separate microparticles by shape.
24. May 2020: Check out the gallery of images from ME 360 Spring 2020 student projects. Very impressive reports, especially considering that circumstances limited group meetings to online-only.
6. Dec. 2019: Our group has won an ACS Petroleum Research Fund grant of $110,000 for work on catalytic suspensions! See the news item on the ME website.
4. Dec. 2019: Congratulations to Ruben Poehnl for having his paper on spheroidal squirmers accepted by the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter!
22. Dec. 2018: Prof. Uspal is guest editing a special issue of Condensed Matter on the "Dynamics of Active Matter". Details are available here.
