Surface Tension
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Subject Areas on Research
- A quantitative explanation of the effects of some alcohols on gramicidin single-channel lifetime.
- Dynamics of neutrophil membrane compliance and microstructure probed with a micropipet-based piconewton force transducer.
- Effect of chain length and unsaturation on elasticity of lipid bilayers.
- Elasticity of 3D networks with rigid filaments and compliant crosslinks.
- Elasticity, strength, and water permeability of bilayers that contain raft microdomain-forming lipids.
- Electro-mechanical permeabilization of lipid vesicles. Role of membrane tension and compressibility.
- Electrowetting-based droplet mixers for microfluidic systems.
- Endothelial denudation and myointimal thickening in the rat carotid artery induced by the passage of bubbles.
- Evaluation of collagen modification and surface properties of a bovine artery via polyepoxy compound fixation.
- Force fluctuations in three-dimensional suspended fibroblasts.
- Investigation of interfacial properties of pure and mixed poloxamers for surfactant-mediated shear protection of mammalian cells.
- Lipid monolayer states and their relationships to bilayers.
- New sensitive micro-measurements of dynamic surface tension and diffusion coefficients: Validated and tested for the adsorption of 1-Octanol at a microscopic air-water interface and its dissolution into water.
- Rationale and Technique for Measuring Abdominal Wall Tension in Hernia Repair.
- Self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces by self-propelled jumping condensate.
- Tensions and free energies of formation of "solventless" lipid bilayers. Measurement of high contact angles.
- Test of the Epstein-Plesset model for gas microparticle dissolution in aqueous media: effect of surface tension and gas undersaturation in solution.
- The captured launch of a ballistospore.
- The effect of polar lipids on tear film dynamics.
- Time-dependent recovery of passive neutrophils after large deformation.
- Viscosity of passive human neutrophils undergoing small deformations.
- Water permeability and mechanical strength of polyunsaturated lipid bilayers.
- Wetting and dewetting transitions on hierarchical superhydrophobic surfaces.
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Keywords of People
- Witelski, Thomas P., Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Pratt School of Engineering