Colloidal systems are abundant in technology, in biomedical settings, and in our daily life.
The so-called “colloidal atoms” paradigm exploits interparticle interactions to self-assemble …

High gas permeance and particle interception efficiency are critical for the performance of
dust filtration membrane, which requires the membrane to have higher porosity support and …

Colloidal particles at complex fluid interfaces and within films assemble to form ordered
structures with high degrees of symmetry via interactions that include capillarity, elasticity …

We present numerical simulations of a particle trapped at the isotropic-nematic liquid crystal
(Iso-N) interface. We use our recent model, based on a phase-field approach [see Qiu, Phys …

We present numerical simulations on pairwise interactions between particles trapped at an
isotropic-nematic liquid crystal (Iso-N) interface. The particles are subject to elastocapillary …

We propose a phase-field model to study interfacial flows of nematic liquid crystals that
couple the capillary forces on the interface with the elastic stresses in the nematic phase …

This thesis aims to develop and apply modern computational techniques to study the
interfacial dynamics involving complex fluids, where the underlying microstructure strongly …

Confinement of colloidal particles in thin liquid films is typically accompanied with interfacial
deformations which give rise to long-range capillary forces, attractive in most of the cases [1] …

Confinement of colloidal particles in thin liquid films is typically accompanied with interfacial
deformations which give rise to long-range capillary forces, attractive in most of the cases [1] …