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


CMEDS 2013 Summer Intern Joyce Ward who was mentored by Dr. Vijay John. Joyce’s project was entitled: “Interfacial Activity of Oil-Degrading Bacteria and Marine Snow Formation in the Aftermath of an Oil Spill. July 2013






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


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


CMEDS 2013 Summer Interns and 2013 St. James Methodist Church Summer Campers and Staff are all smiles following the CMEDS Summer Science Outreach Day held at Tulane University. July 2013

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

Nucleation of hydrates.
Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton University)


CMEDS 2013 Summer Interns following their participation in the Summer Research Academy Symposium. Front row: Mary Osetinsky, Karry Wright, Kristen Wollman, Carolina Rodriguez, and Kelly O’Quinn. Back row: Joyce Ward, Allen Huang, David Galin, Lawrence Aiken, and Tuan Tran. August 2013




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


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.
Announcements

1. Registration for the 2015 Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference is open. (http://www.cvent.com/events/2015-oil-spill-and-ecosystem-science-conference/event-summary-f8e7997d3673455e8ae8ebd03a854af1.aspx). There are a number of sessions on dispersants.


News

Andrew Worthen (UT-Austin) and Amitesh Saha (Univ. Rhode Island) are featured on the GOMRI website as GOMRI scholars.

Howard Stone (Princeton) is elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Norma Alcantar's (Univ. South Florida) work is featured in the Ensia article "After the Oil Spill" http://ensia.com/articles/after-the-oil-spill/

Norma Alcantar's work is featured on the NSF website. http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/cactus.jsp

Hank Ashbaugh (Tulane)is the winner of the 2013 Helmholtz Award given by the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAWPS). http://www.iapws.org/awards/Helmholtz.htm

Bob Hurt (Brown) has been appointed the Chief Editor of Carbon. Bob is also the recipient of the Charles E. Pettinos Award given by the American Carbon Society. http://www.americancarbonsociety.org

Dick Weiss (Georgetown) was appointed a Visiting Professor (Senior Scientist) by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

C-MEDS welcomes Howard Stone (Princeton). Howard is working on a collaborative project with Bob Prud'homme on the ultrafast dynamics of surfactant adsorption to interfaces.

Pablo Debenedetti has been appointed the Dean of Research at Princeton.

KT Valsaraj has been appointed the Vice-Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at LSU.

 

Recent Journal Publications

1. Gupta, A.; Sender, M.; Fields, S.; Bothun, G. “Phase and Sedimentation Behavior of Dispersed Oil (Octane) Dispersions in the Presence of Model Mineral Aggregates”, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2014, 87(1-2), 164. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.07.062

2. Katepalli, H.; Bose, A. “Response of Surfactant Stabilized Oil-in-Water Emulsions to the Addition of Particles in an Aqueous Suspension”, Langmuir, in press. DOI: 10.1021/la502291q 

3. Faure, L.; Nagarajan, S.; Hwang, H.; Montgomery, C. L.; Khan, B. R.; John, G.; Koulen, P.; Blancaflor, E. B.; Chapman, K. D. Synthesis of Phenoxyacyl-Ethanolamides and Their Effects on Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Activity, J. Biol. Chem, 2014, 289, 9340. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.533315

4. Hwang, H.; Jadhav, S. R.; Silverman, J. R.; John, G. Sweet and Sustainable: Teaching the Biorefinery Concept through Biobased Gelator Synthesis, J. Chem. Educ., 2014, 91, 1563. DOI: 10.1021/ed3007764

5. Tang, X.; Huston, K.; Larson, R.G. “Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Structure-Property Relationships of Tween® 80 Surfactants in Water and at Interfaces” J. Phys. Chem., in press.DOI: 10.1021/jp507499k

6. Minjun Cha, Seungjun Baek, Wonhee Lee, Kyuchul Shin, and Jae W. Lee, “Tuning Behaviors of Methane Inclusion in Isoxazole Clathrate Hydrates,” J. Chem. Eng. Data, in press. DOI: 10.1021/je500568f.

7. Rao, A.; Reddy, R.; Nandakumar, K. “Experimental and Numerical Study of Rising and Falling Droplets under the Influence of Mass Transfer”, AIChE Journal, in press. DOI: 10.1002/aic.14612

9. Rao A., Reddy R, Nandakumar K “Effect of surfactant on dynamics of crude oil droplet: Experimental and Numerical Investigation” Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, in press. DOI: 10.1002/cjce.22074

10. Chaudhari, M.I.; Pratt, L. R.; Paulitis, M.E. “Loop-Closure and Gaussian Models of Collective Structural Characteristics of Capped PEO Oligomers in Water.” J. Phys. Chem. B, in press. DOI: 10.1021/jp504244x​

11. Chaudhari, M.I.; Sabo, D.; Pratt, L.R.; Rempe, S. B. “Hydration of Kr(aq) in dilute and concentrated solutions.” J. Phys. Chem. B, in press. DOI: 10.1021/jp508866h​

12. Vengsarkar, P.; Roberts, C.B. "Solid-stabilized emulsion formation using stearoyl lactylate coated iron oxide nanoparticles." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 16.10 (2014): 1-16.

13. Collins, M.; Soto-Cantu, E.; Cueto, R.; Russo, P.S. “Separation and Characterization of Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) Latex Particles by Asymmetric Flow Field Flow Fractionation with Light-Scattering Detection,” Langmuir, 2014, 30 (12), 3373. DOI: 10.1021/la404902x

14. Foster, L.M.; Worthen, A.J.; Foster, E.; Dong, J.; Roach, C.; Metaxas, A.E.; Hardy, C.; Larsen, E.; Bollinger, J.A.; Truskett, T.M.; Bielawski, C.W.; and Johnston, K.P. “High Interfacial Activity of Polymers “Grafted Through” Functionalized Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Clusters”. Langmuir, 2014, 30, 10188. DOI: 10.1021/la501445f

15. Bollinger, J.; Jain, A.; Truskett, T. “How Local and Average Particle Diffusivities of Inhomogeneous Fluids Depend on Microscopic Dynamics” J. Phys. Chem. B, in press. DOI: 10.1021/jp508887r

16. Owoseni, O.; Nykanson, E.; Zhang, Y.; Adams, S.; He, J.; McPherson, G.; Bose, A.; Gupta, R.; John, V “Release of Surfactant Cargo from Interfacially-Active Halloysite Clay Nanotubes for Oil Spill Remediation”, Langmuir, in press. DOI: 10.1021/la503687b

17. Bodratti, A. M.; Sarkar, B.; Song, D.; Tsianou, M.; Alexandridis, P. “Competitive Adsorption between PEO-Containing Block Copolymers and Homopolymers at Silica” Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology 2015, 36(1), 1. DOI: 10.1080/01932691.2014.880847

 

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