Zhiqiang Shen
Email: [email protected]
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Chemical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education/Experience:
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2022
Ph.D. – Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2020
M.S. – Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2015
B.S. – Engineering Mechanics , China University of Mining and Technology, 2012
Current Research
My current project focuses on multiscale modeling to study the behaviors of polyethylene during film blowing. I am also developing unique mathematical tools to describe the non-equilibrium states of polyethylene crystallization.
Raghuram Elancheran
Email: [email protected]
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Chemical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education/Experience:
Postdoctoral research fellow – Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2023
Ph. D. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2021
M. Tech – Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2014
B. Tech – Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology Chennai, 2012
Current Research
I perform Brownian dynamics simulations of associative polymers to understand their rheological behavior (especially shear thickening at moderate shear rates, followed by shear thinning at higher shear rates).
Christina Rice
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student – Mechanical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
M.S. – Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2021
B.S.E. – Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University, 2017
Current Research
I model malarial blood flow to understand physiological behavior through fundamental physics. I simulate blood as a dense suspension of soft particles and change the red blood cell properties to reflect different stages of infection. When healthy blood becomes infected with malaria, the red blood cells increase in rigidity and change shape, which can cause immune suppression and anemia. By analyzing the cells’ position during flow, we can connect changes in material properties to health outcomes. In addition to my hemorheological work, I perform rheological experiments with waxy oils to understand the effects of temperature on wax deposition. Previously in the group, I simulated heavyweight polymer adsorption using a long-timescale algorithm to study rare events that generally are too computationally expensive to achieve.
Huiling Li
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student – Macromolecular Science & Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
M.S. – Macromolecular Science & Engineering, University of Michigan 2021
B.S. – Polymer Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, 2019
Current Research
My current project focuses on the rheology of polyelectrolyte coacervates. We are trying to understand their viscoelasticity at low-frequency regions, especially the appearance of gel-like plateaus. Our goal is to interpret their structure and dynamics by rheology and theory models.
Samuel Ogunwale
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student- Chemical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education
M.S. – Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2021
B.S. – Chemical Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria, 2016
Current Research
I am developing a model to predict the wax deposition growth rate and composition using known oil and flow properties. This model will capture the aging of wax deposits in pipelines.
Omkar Roy
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student – Chemical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
B.Tech. – Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2020
M.Tech. – Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2020
Current Research
I am studying rheology of high viscosity fluids used in direct-ink-write 3D printing to correlate the rheology with printability.
Linghao Shi
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student – Macromolecular Science & Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
B.S. Chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2022
Current Research
I’m currently working on Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation to figure out specific scientific problems, such as drug or polyethylene crystallization.
Chia-Pei(Perry) Chu
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student – Chemical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
M.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2022
B.S. Life Science, National Taiwan University, 2020
Current Research
My current project focuses on the rheology of complex fluids and applied in 3D printing. I am trying to understand the interactions between particles and different solutions.
Pratyush Dhal
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student – Chemical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
B.Tech. – Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, 2023
Current Research
I am interested in developing new models that aid in material discovery and characterization by applying the power of Machine Learning and AI to Molecular Simulations.
Hao-Yu Wang
Email: [email protected]
PhD Student – Chemical Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University , 2022
Current Research
I am studying rheology of polymers and worm-like micelles, and exploiting Brownian Dynamics (BD) to simulate their behavior under different types of extensional flow.
Jian Lin
Email: [email protected]
Master’s Student – Macromolecular Science & Engineering
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Education:
B.S. – Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021
Current Research
I’m currently working on simulating the phase behavior of polyelectrolyte coacervates and I’m trying to understand the influence of salt and pH on polyelectrolyte solutions.
Fujie Lan
Email: [email protected]
Undergraduate Student
Office: 010 G034 NCRC, Biointerfaces Institute
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Current Research
I am currently working with Huiling Li on understanding phase behavior of polyelectrolyte coacervates under various salt identity, salt concentration and pH conditions.