Using a cantilever to measure interfacial forces.
Tony Dinsmore (University of Massachusetts)






Dispersant at the oil-water interface.
Ron Larson (University of Michigan)


Cryo-Scanning Electron Micrograph of dispersed oil drops.
Vijay John (Tulane University)

Simulation of capped PEO Oligomers in water/hexane.
Lawrence Pratt (Tulane University)

Nucleation of hydrates.
Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton University)




Particle Streaming from Pickering Emulsion
Arijit Bose (University of Rhode Island)








Measuring adhesion through the Surface Forces Apparatus.
Norma Alcantar (University of South Florida)


Oil transport in porous media.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Tulane University)
  About C-MEDS
The Consortium for the Molecular Engineering of Dispersant Systems (C-MEDS) is a research collaboratory involving 43 investigators from 22 universities in the US. The Consortium is based on the premise that dispersants are an essential aspect in the effective management and mitigation of large oil releases from deep ocean environments. The Consortium is funded through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. The Consortium has an Advisory Committee with distinguished scientists from Industry and the Federal Laboratories. In addition to its research mission, the Consortium has a strong education mission to train students in advanced science and technology related to the mitigation of oil spills, and an outreach mission to communicate and provide information on the role of dispersants in oil spills.
  In the News

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & EcoSystem Science Conference
The conference will be held January 21-23, 2013.

CMEDS Meeting. The 2nd Annual Investigator Meeting will be held, Sunday, January 20th, 2013.


C-MEDS held its first annual meeting on March 25, 2012
The next meeting will be held January 20, 2013 in connection with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill & EcoSystem Science Conference

Recent Publications

Fox, D.I.; Pichler, T.; Yeh, D. H.; Alcantar, N. A. “Removing Heavy Metals in Water: The Interaction of Cactus Mucilage and Arsenate (As (V))”, Environmental Science and Technology, 2012, 46(8), 4553.

Liyana-Arachchi, P.; Valsaraj, K.; Hung, F. “Adsorption of Naphthalene and Ozone on Atmospheric Air/Ice Interfaces Coated with Surfactants: A Molecular Simulation Study”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2012, 116, 2519.

Salako, O.; Lo, C.; Zhang, J.; Couzis, A.; Somasundaran, P.; Lee, J. “Adsorption of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate onto Clathrate Hydrates in the Presence of Salt”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2012, 386(1), 333.

Sarupia, S.; Debenedetti, P. “Homogeneous Nucleation of Methane Hydrate in Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2012, 3(20), 2942.
 

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