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Dr. Srinivasarao specializes in physical chemistry of polymers,
optics and physics of nematic liquid crystals, rheology and rheo-optics of
polymeric fluids and liquid crystals, polymer / liquid crystal dispersions,
various forms of light microscopy including confocal microscopy and photon
tunneling microscopy, color science, and nano-optics in the biological
world (color of butterfly wings, beetles, moths, and bird feathers).
The present group, consists of Dr. Jung O Park, one Post-Doc, four
graduate students and two undergraduate student working on diverse areas.
Matija Crne is working on optimizing the spinning of PMMA stereocomplex
fibers to make self reinforced composites. Vivek Sharma imaged chaotic
mixing of microdroplets, studied dynamics of rods and spheres to explain
their shape separation during centrifugation and is now working on
elucidating the mechanism of breath-figure templated assembly of bubbles in
polymer films. Min Su and Xuxia have joined the group recently. The details
of these topics is described in the links below.
Recent graduates (Georgia Tech): Dr. Jian Zhou studied anchoring transitions
in PDLCs (Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals), Dr. Lulu Song studied ordered
arrays of bubbles in polymer films, Dr. J. S. Park synthesized
supramolecular structures (rotaxanes and pseudo-rotaxanes) and studied
their optical properties, Dr. Kyoungweon Park turned gold into nanorods,
studied the mechanism of their growth, their optical properties and made
liquid crystalline assemblies out of them and Haixia photopolymerized
PDCLCs (polymer dispersed chiral liquid crystals), and studied their anchoring
transitions for her MS degree.
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