Experimental Soft Condensed
Matter Group
Prof. David A. Weitz
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences / Department of Physics
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
OLDER RESEARCH:
Defects in Liquid Crystals
Colloids and Surfactants
Emulsions
Colloidal Aggregates
Microscopic dynamics of the glass transition
Cracking of Viscoelastic Media
Multi
color
Particle Tracking of Nanocrystals
Nucleation and growth of Colloidal Crystals
Weakly aggregating systems
Aging of Fractal Colloidal Gels
Probing Polymer Solutions using DWS
Calcite Crystals
Mixtures of Disks and Polymers (Shake Gels)
Bio-optics
Stability of Compressed Emulsions
Vesicles
Colloidal Pastes
Electro-sterically dispersing carbon particles in non-polar media
Gravity & Colloidal Aggregations
Attractive and Repulsive Colloidal Glasses
Binary Colloidal Crystals
Physics of Colloids in Space
Mechanics of Cytoplasm extracted from Xenopus Eggs
Entangled Actin Solutions
Microstructure Dynamics and Anomalous Diffusion in Entangled F-actin Networks
The Motion of a Brain Tumor in a Gel
Probing Heterogeneous Materials with Multiple Particle Tracking
Surface Chemistry Effects on Particle Tracking
Effect of Particle Size
Dripping to Jetting in Flow Focusing Devices
Polymer membranes
Colloidosomes
Porous Particles for Drug Delivery by Inhalation
Surface Light Scattering
Emulsification
Extensional Flow Breakup
Multicomponent Drops
Particle Segregation
Expansion Patterns
Boojums
Mixing in Microchannels
Discotic Colloids
Microfluidics and Complex Fluids
Frequency Doubling to Chaos
Surface modification of PDMS microfluidic devices with polyelectrolyte multilayers
Sedimentation at Low Reynolds number
Colloidal Drops on Hot Plates
Charging in Non-Polar Colloids
Flow and Fracture in Films
Dense Colloidal Gels
Slow Dynamics in Dense Colloidal Systems
Shear Cell for Confocal Studies
Deformation of Crystals and Glasses
Visualization of the electrical excitation in the heart
Structure and Drying Droplets of Polystyrene Colloidal Suspensions and Polyethylene Oxide
Transport in Living Cells
Length Scale Dependence of Actin Rheology
Encapsulation in polymer shells
High-throughput dielectric detection and characterization of material droplets
Quantum Dots as Biological Labels
Sedimentation
Structure and Dynamics of Reversible Physical Polymer Gels
Drop sorting using electric field
Enzyme-inhibitor assay using microdrops
Triple and Multiple Emulsions
Mechanics of cytoskeletal protein networks
Molecular Evolution
Shearing Actin Networks
Rheological Properties of Inhomogeneous Hydrogel Systems
The effect of the air/liquid interface on colloidal behavior
Preparation and Characterization of Monodisperse Stimuli-responsive Microspheres with Controllable Internal Structures
Non-Ionic Fluorosurfactants for Biological and Chemical Applications inside Aqueous and Organic Emulsion droplets
Colloidal Aggregation in Carbon Black Gels
Sedimenting Polydisperse Colloids
Microtubule Mechanics in Cells
Single Cell Chemical Sensing via Encapsulation Into Functionalized Polymer Shell
Uniform Microgels with Complex Structures
Engineering of Non-Spherical Colloidal Particles
Engineering materials with capillary-based microfluidic devices
Microgel Physics
Uniform Microgels with Complex Structures
Collapse of Colloidal Gells
Engineering Particle Systems for Pulmonary Drug Delivery
Nematic order in spherical shells
Microscopic origin of the nonlinear elasticity of actin-filamin networks
Physical Aspects of Cell Division
Mechanical Properties of Actin-α-Actinin Networks
Mechanical Properties of a Colloidal Gel by Depletion Interaction
Shear-melting colloidal glasses
Compressional Modulus of Emulsion Gel
Colloidal Crystals as Model Systems to Study Solid State Phenomena
Droplet Based Microfluidics for High-Throughput Monoclonal Antibody Screening
Curvature-modulated Compositional and Dynamic Heterogeneity of Skin Lipid Structures
Self-assembled structures from microgel particles using microfluidics
Transport and Jamming of Colloids in Porous Materials
Strain-Rate Frequency Superposition
Drop Impact
Brain Tumor Growth Model
Seeing Nucleation by Eye
Drying of a colloidal suspension
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