Research Projects

Hydrodynamics of confined membranes Elastic deformations of grafted layers under shear stress Pinning of fluid membranes by periodic harmonic potentials Role of cross-links in bundle formation, phase separation and gelation of long filaments Cytoskeleton confinement and tension of red blood cell membranes Entropic phase separation in polymer-microemulsion networks Initiation and dynamics of hemifusion in lipid bilayers Ferrofluids: Magnetic Strings and Networks Calculation of Forces at Focal Adhesions from Elastic Substrate Data: The Effect of Localized Force and the Need for Regularization Elastic Interaction of Cells Slow fluctuations in enhanced Raman scattering and surface roughness relaxation Universal reduction of pressure between charged surfaces by long-wavelength surface charge modulation Charge fluctuations and counterion condensation Statistical thermodynamics of soft surfaces