Great idea!

#apsmarch My third APS march meeting has passed. Time flies! Had a poster discussing one of my projects, and hopefully it will come out soon. Happy to be an audience in front of my laptop for 5 days, just slightly shorter than watching TV-shows. APS DSOFT APS DPOLY

Micellar #foamfilms stratify: show stepwise thinning & a rich #nanoscopic topography. The step size is similar to intermicellar distance measured using small-angle x-ray scattering Argonne National Lab. Chrystian Ochoa UIC Chem Engineering w/ Shang G. & Samanvaya Srivastava UCLA 1/3 pnas.org/content/118/25…

To get a foam, just stir soapy water. But the exact details of how foams form and decay are fuzzy. Researchers UCLA Samueli Engineering & UIC News used Advanced Photon Source to peer into processes behind foams' lifecycle, which could help improve production of them: samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-and-uic-r…

Congratulations to the 2021 PMSE Young Investigators! Come meet the awardees and get a sneak peek of their research endeavors on September 8th, 10 am PT/1 pm ET. Register at forms.gle/Q9oGPLAsrSfmPx… #ACSFall2021 American Chemical Society

Our work on comb polyelectrolyte stabilized complex coacervate microdroplets is out in ACS Macro Journals. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering UCLA Samueli Engineering U.S. National Science Foundation Led by our alum Shang G., we show that comb polyelectrolytes stabilize complex coacervate droplets for months!

Salt addition breaks down the analogy observed between the step sizes in stratifying foam films and intermicellar distances in bulk solutions of ionic surfactants in salt-free solutions. Published in Langmuir pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Honored to work with Prof.Sharma, my PhD-life long collaborator, committee advisor, and mentor!