October 2021: Dr. Khare gives a talk at the Society of Rheology Meeting in Bangor,
Maine.
September 2021: Pouria and Rafikul's paper on microrheology analysis in molecular
simulations is published in Journal of Rheology.
August 2021: Adegbola's paper on time-temperature superposition is published in Soft
Matter.
July 2021: Pouria and Rafikul's paper on active probe rheology simulation technique
is published in Journal of Rheology.
June 2021: Rafikul's papers on polymer membrane films and hydrogen outgassing are
published in ACS Applied Polymer Materials and Journal of Applied Physics.
March 2021: Rafikul Islam successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Rafikul!!
November 2020: Ashwin's paper on organic mixtures is published in Fluid Phase Equilibria.
May 2020: Dinesh S. Devarajan successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations
Dinesh!!
April 2020: Fardin and Rafik's book chapter on polymer nanocomposites is published.
March 2020: Pouria Nourian successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Pouria!!
March 2020: Dinesh and Pouria's paper on nanocolloid rheology is highlighted as a
featured article in Journal of Rheology.
February 2020: Dinesh and Pouria win the Red Raider Award for Outstanding Peer-Reviewed
Journal Paper (given by Society of Plastics Engineers Student Chapter and Department
of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University) on nanocolloid rheology. Congratulations
Dinesh and Pouria!!
January 2020: Alumnus Fardin starts a new position as an Assistant Professor at The University of Akron. Congratulations
Fardin!!
December 2019: Adegbola Balogun, new Ph.D. student, joins the group. Welcome Adegbola!!!
November 2019: Dr. Khare and Dinesh give talks at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando,
FL. Dinesh also presents a poster at the same meeting.
October 2019: Dinesh and Rafikul give talks at the Society of Rheology Meeting in
Raleigh, NC.
July 2019: Thong Le, new Ph.D. student, joins the group. Welcome Thong!!!
March 2019: Ashwin and Sriram's paper on water mobility in hydrogels is published
in Journal of Polymer Science.
February 2019: Ashwin has left the building. Now at the NASA Ames Research Center.
January 2019: Ashwin's paper on electrolyte systems is published in AIChE journal.
November 2018: Dr. Khare gives an invited talk at the Oil & Gas Chemistry and Polymers
Meeting in Houston, TX.
November 2018: Dinesh is selected for the Mark Demark scholarship sponsored by the
Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). Congratulations Dinesh!!
October 2018: Dinesh and Rafikul give talks at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh,
PA.
October 2018: Dinesh, Rafikul, and Pouria give talks at the Society of Rheology Meeting
in Houston, TX.
October 2018: Ashwin Ravichandran successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations
Ashwin!!
September 2018: Dinesh is recognized for his work as the President of the Chemical
Engineering Graduate Student Association (ChEGSA) for the year 2017-2018. Congratulations
Dinesh!!
August 2018: Dinesh receives the SoR student travel grant award to attend the 90th
Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology in Houston, TX.
August 2018: Ashwin's paper on predicting the χ parameter from molecular simulations
is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
June 2018: Ashwin gives a presentation at the Twentieth Symposium on Thermophysical
Properties in Boulder, CO.
June 2018: Ashwin's paper on phase equilibria of concentrated electrolyte solutions
is published in AIChE Journal.
June 2018: Ashwin's paper on predicting NRTL model parameters from molecular simulations
is published in AIChE Journal.
June 2018: Fardin's paper on simulation of asphalt rheology is published in Journal
of Rheology.
May 2018: Ashwin wins first place in the poster competition organized by the Graduate
Student Association of the Department of Chemical Engineering, TTU. Congrats Ashwin!!
March 2018: Dr. Khare and Rafik give presentations at the APS March meeting in Los
Angeles, CA.
February 2018: Fardin's paper on temperature dependence of ionic liquid properties
is published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
January 2018: Dr. Khare's paper on modeling flow induced deformation of particle laden
interfaces is published in Langmuir.
January 2018: Sriram's paper on layered polymer systems is published in Macromolecules.
January 2018: Michael Wurmstein has rejoined the group. Welcome back Michael!!
December 2017: Sriram has left the building. Now at University of Chicago.
November 2017: Ashwin and Pouria give presentations at the AIChE Annual meeting in
Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Khare gives and invited presentation at the same meeting.
October 2017: Congratulations to Sriram for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!!!
October 2017: Pouria and Dinesh give talks at the Society of Rheology Meeting in Denver,
CO.
August 2017: Pouria is selected for the SoR student travel grant award to attend the
89th Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology in Denver, CO.
August 2017: Fardin's paper on Multi-Component Flory-Rehner Theory for swelling in
polymer networks is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
July 2017: Dr. Khare gives an invited talk at the 8th International Discussion Meeting
on Relaxations in Complex Systems (8 IDMRCS) in Wisla, Poland.
July 2017: Ashwin presents a poster at the Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS) organized
by The National Academy of Engineering (NAE), The Chinese Academy of Engineering,
and UK Royal Academy of Engineering (Washington D.C.).
May 2017: Sriram wins second place in the poster competition organized by the Graduate
Student Association of the Department of Chemical Engineering, TTU. Congrats Sriram!!!
May 2017: Dinesh's review article on the topic of molecular simulations of nanocolloids
is published in Current Opinion in Chemical Engieering.
April 2017: Dr. Khare gives an invited talk at the ACS National meeting in San Francisco,
CA.
March 2017: Sriram gives a presentation at the APS March meeting in New Orleans, LA.
January 2017: Dr. Khare and Ashwin conduct a workshop on molecular simulations in
the School of Polymers and High-Performance Materials at University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg, MS.
January 2017: Dr. Khare gives an invited talk in the School of Polymers and High-Performance
Materials at University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS.
November 2016: Ashwin and Pouria give presentations at the AIChE Annual meeting in
San Francisco, CA.
September 2016: Fardin and Sriram's paper on dynamic coupling between water and polyacrylate
gels is published in Macromolecules.
September 2016: Sriram and Fardin win the Red Raider Award for Outstanding Peer-Reviewed
Journal Paper (given by Society of Plastics Engineers Student Chapter and Department
of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University) for their paper on structure of water
in swollen polyacrylate gels. Congratulations Sriram and Fardin!!
September 2016: Current grant from TXDOT on the topic of asphalt properties is extended
for 2.5 more years.
August 2016: Fardin has left the building. Now at University of Texas at Austin. .
August 2016: New NSF grant funded on the topic of Probe Rheology.
August 2016: Dr. Khare gives a presentation at the International Congress of Rheology
in Kyoto, Japan.
July 2016: Dr. Khare gives an invited presentation at the Polymer Composites and High
Performance Materials Workshop, ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry, Santa Rosa, CA.
Fardin presents a poster at the same meeting.
June 2016: Congratulations to Fardin for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis!!!
March 2016: Mir's paper on the topic of viscoelasticity of bi-modal polymer networks
is published in Polymer.
March 2016: Dr. Khare gives an invited presentation at the ACS Meeting in San Diego,
CA.
March 2016: Dr. Khare and Sriram give presentations at the APS March meeting in Baltimore,
MD.
January 2016: Mir's paper on the particle rheology simulations of entangled polymers
is published in Physical Review E.
November 2015: Rafikul Islam, new Ph.D. student, joins the group. Welcome Rafik!!!
November 2015: Michael Wurmstein wins the second place award in the Computing and
Process Control Division at the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition at the AIChE
Annual meeting in Salt Lake City, UT.
November 2015: Ashwin and Fardin give presentations at the AIChE Annual meeting in
Salt Lake City, UT.
October 2015: Sriram and Fardin's paper highlighting the structure of water in swollen
polyacrylate gels is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
October 2015: Fardin's paper on the topic of viscosity of imidazolium-based ionic
liquids is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
October 2015: Dr. Khare and Fardin give presentations at the Society of Rheology annual
meeting in Baltimore, MD.
October 2015: Fardin's paper focusing on the glass transition and molecular mobility
in asphalt systems is published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B.
August 2015: Dinesh Sundaravadivelu Devarajan, new Ph.D. student, joins the group.
Welcome Dinesh!!!
November 2014: Michael Wurmstein won the first place award in the Computing and Process
Control Division at the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition at the AIChE meeting.
The title of Michael's poster was "Simulated Annealing Polymerization: A General Algorithm
for Preparing Atomistic Model Structures of Amorphous Polymers."
August 2014: Lakshmi Muthukumar defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations, Lakshmi!!
May 2014: Mir Karim successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Mir!!
March 2014: Fardin and Mir gave presentations at the APS March meeting.
October 2013: Ketan Khare successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations Ketan!!
August 2013: Ashwin Ravichandran, graduate student, joins the group. Welcome Ashwin!!
July 2013: Dr. Ronald C. Hedden and Dr. Rajesh Khare were awarded a three year, $639,929
grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Designing Materials to
Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. Their funded project is entitled,
"DMREF: Combinatorial Methods to Enable Rapid Prototyping of Pervaporation Membranes
for Bio-alcohol Recovery ”.
July 2013: Ketan Khare wins the poster competition at the Polymer Composites and High
Performance Materials organized by the Division of Polymer Chemistry, American Chemical
Society (ACS) in Santa Rosa, California.
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