Professor Nicholas L. Abbott
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Tisch University Professor
Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Member of Graduate Fields of: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Materials Science Email: nla34@cornell.edu
Office: Olin Hall, Room 360 |
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
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Alumni
Undergraduate Students
Oluwagbotemi Akinsoji- REU student - PhD Student, Northwestern University - 2022
Ritwick Sinha- Exploring surface tension properties of n-Dodecyl-B-D-Maltoside-containing surfactants in water
Danielle Pike- Investigation of colloidal liquid crystal intermolecular interactions
Hayley Nilles- Interactions of amphiphiles at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces
Christina Lee- Chemoresponsive liquid crystals
Ritwick Sinha- Exploring surface tension properties of n-Dodecyl-B-D-Maltoside-containing surfactants in water
Danielle Pike- Investigation of colloidal liquid crystal intermolecular interactions
Hayley Nilles- Interactions of amphiphiles at aqueous-liquid crystal interfaces
Christina Lee- Chemoresponsive liquid crystals
Graduate Students
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Huaizhe Yu- Coupling Surface Reactions to Orientational Transitions of Liquid Crystals - PhD - April 2023
Xin Wang- Functional Soft Materials Designed using Colloids and Interfaces at and beyond Equilibrium - PhD - Oct 2022 Nanqi Bao- Ordering Transitions of Liquid Crystals Triggered by Interfacial Reactions - PhD - May 2022 Michael Tsuei- Amphiphilic Assemblies at Liquid Crystal Interfaces - PhD - September 2021 Yu Yang- Design of Functional Materials Based on Liquid Crystal-Polymer Composites - PhD - July 2021 Hector Fuster- Liquid Crystalline Materials as Templates for Engineering van der Waals Interactions - PhD - May 2021 Hongseung Yeon- Influence of Nanoscopic Heterogeneity on Hydrophobic Interactions - PhD - 2019 Robert Gottlieb-Molecular Self-Assembly Templated by Liquid Crystal Defects - MS - December 2017 Tim Smith- Redox-Dependent Transformations in Molecular Self-Assembly of Ferrocenyl Surfactants - PhD - December 2017 Reza Abasi- Design of Functional Thin Films - PhD - October 2017 Travis Nelson- Endotoxin-induced ordering transitions in liquid crystalline systems - MS - May 2017 Maggie Herron-Design and Characterization of Bioactive Thin Films - PhD - December 2016 Xiaoguang Wang- Liquid Crystal Templated Assembly of Colloids and Molecules - PhD - September 2016 Emre Bukusoglu- Design of Functional Materials Based on Confined Liquid Crystals - PhD - December 2015 Daniel Abras- Dynamics of Nanoparticles in Mesogenic Solvents - PhD - December 2015 Marco A. Bedolla Pantoja- Design Principles for Functional Liquid Crystals - PhD - December 2015 Peter Mushenheim- Design of Active and Anisotropic Soft Matter - PhD - August 2015 Mohit Goel- Understanding the Interactions of Peptides with Abiotic Surfaces: Towards Water Free Biologics - MS - May 2015 Rishabh Jain- Characterization and Design of Biotic/Abiotic Interfaces - PhD - December 2014 Derek Ma- Hydrophobic Interactions and Sequence-Directed Assembly - PhD - August 2014 Dan Miller- Physiochemical Principles for the Design of Functional Materials based on Liquid Crystalline Droplets - PhD - August 2014 Rebecca J. Carlton- Ordering Transitions at the Liquid Crystal-Aqueous Interface - PhD - May 2014 Jacob T. Hunter- Adsorbate-Induced Ordering Transitions of Nematic Liquid Crystals - PhD - May 2014 Lie Na Tan- Bioanalytics of Microvesicles based on Liquid Crystals - PhD - December 2013 Sebastian Gast- Study of the Modulation of Hydrophobic Interactions by Electrostatic Interactions - Stuttgart-Madison Two-Way Exch - July 2013 Burcu Selin Aytar- Active and External Control over the Delivery of DNA to Cells using a Redox-Active, Ferrocene-Containing Cationic Lipid - PhD - December 2012 John Muller- Biophysical Characterization of the Interactions of Nucleic Acids and Ferrocenyl Amphiphiles - PhD - December 2012 Yiqun Bai- Anchoring of Liquid Crystals on Biomolecular Interfaces - PhD - December 2011 Claribel Acevedo-Velez- Impact of Chemical Nanopatterns on Directed Assembly - PhD - December 2011 Elise Huang- Cell-Substrate Interaction: Development of tools to Investigate SubstrateSupport in Cardiomyogensis and to Visualize Cell-Substrate Interaction - PhD - August 2011 Xiaoyang Liu- Spatial and Temporal patterning of surfactants and micelles in Microfluidic Channels - PhD - December 2010 Michael I. Kinsinger- Design and Synthesis of Multifunctional Amphiphilic Polymers to Tailor the Properties of Aqueous-Liquid Crystal Interfaces - PhD - May 2010 |
I-Hsin Lin- Characterization of Amphiphile-Induced Ordering Transitions at Aqueous-Liquid Crystal Interfaces - PhD - December 2009
Gary M. Koenig, Jr.- Interactions Between Particles and Liquid Crystals: Local Ordering and Driven Assembly - PhD - December 2009 Aaron Lowe- Surface Engineering for Biomolecular Analysis using Liquid Crystals - PhD - August 2009 Jugal K. Gupta- Effects of Confinement and Interfacial Chemistry on the Ordering of Liquid Crystals - PhD - May 2009 Manan Chopra- Molecular Simulations of Rare Events - PhD - August 2008 Sarah Teren- Understanding the Spatial and Temporal Patterning of the Orientations of Liquid Crystals at Lipid-Laden Interfaces in the Presence of Phospholipase A2 - MS - August 2007 Katie D. Cadwell- Analyte-Induced Ordering Transitions of Liquid Crystals at Chemically Functionalized Interfaces - PhD - August 2007 Melissa E. Hays- Interactions of Polymers and Redox-Active Surfactants - PhD - May 2007 Frank P. Hubbard- Investigation of Aggregate Microstructures Formed by Light-Sensitive Surfactants - PhD - December 2006 Guiyu Bai- Interfacial Transport Driven by Redox-active Surfactants - PhD - August 2005 Peer N. Zschoerper- Liquid Crystals at Lipid-laden Interfaces - December 2005 Matthew L. Tingey- Amplification of Biomolecular Interactions Using Liquid Crystals and Nanostructured Surfaces - PhD - December 2005 Brian H. Clare- Surface Anchoring of Liquid Crystals in Contact with Functionalized Organic Thin Films - PhD - December 2005 Luis A. Tercero- Orientational behavior of nematic liquid crystals on surfaces presenting bound virus particles - MS - August 2003 Maren K. Daschner- Lateral organization of proteins bound to biomimetic interfaces coupled to thermotropic liquid crystals - MS - August 2003 Jeffrey M. Brake- Imaging of phenomena at an aqueous-liquid crystal interface through changes in the orientation of liquid crystals - PhD - August 2003 Craig A. Rosslee- Novel applications of ferrocene based surfactants - PhD - August 2003 Justin J. Skaife- Amplification and transduction of Biospecific Interactions at surfaces by using liquid crystals - PhD - May 2001 Lei Yin- No thesis. Report title: Verification of the Gibbs adsorption equation at the solid-liquid interface and a study of electrochemically-induced spreading of aqueous solutions of redox-active surfactant - MS - May 2002 Yuedong Gu- Topological Defects Formed in Liquid Crystals Containing Solid Microspheres with Tailored Surface Properties - MS - August 2001 Jason Y. Shin- Dynamic Interfacial Properties of Aqueous Surfactant Solutions - PhD - May 2001 Rahul R. Shah- Novel Approaches to the Design and Characteriza- Tion of Organic Surfaces - PhD - December 2000 Nihal Aydogan- Design of Surfactant Molecules for Active and Passive Control of Surface and Bulk Properties of Aqueous Solutions - PhD - May 2001 Lana Iva Jong- Investigations of the Interfacial Properties of Aqueous Solutions of Disulfide-Containing Surfactants - PhD - 1999 Benedict Silvestre Gallardo- Ferrocenyl Surfactants at the Surface of Water: Principles for Active Control of the Interfacial Properties of Aqueous Solutions - PhD - 1997 |
Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Scientists
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Soumik Das, PhD - Assistant Professor - Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India - 2023
Sangchul Roh, PhD - Assistant Professor - Chonnam National University, South Korea - 2023 Michael Reynolds, PhD - Postdoctoral Researcher - Miskin Group, University of Pennsylvania - 2022 Qingkun Liu, PhD - 2022 Mingxin He, PhD - Postdoctoral Researcher - Gang Group, Columbia University - 2022 JungHyun Noh, PhD Karthik Nayani, PhD - Assistant Professor - University of Arkansas Hirobumi Shibata, PhD - Visiting Professor - Chiba Institute of Technology Young-ki Kim, PhD - Assistant Professor - Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea Rahul Mangal, PhD Chulsoon Park, PhD Kazuki Iwabata, PhD Chenxuan Wang, PhD - Research Associate Guksik Lee - Visiting Research Associate - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - Tokyo Institute of Technology Julie Last - PhD - Research Associate Zhongqiang Yang - PhD - Research Associate Gaurav Pranami - PhD - Research Associate Santanu K. Pal - PhD - Research Associate Abhijit Dan - PhD Sangwook Choi - PhD - CEO, NanoSurface Biomedical Eddie Ramos (REU student) - University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez campus Chiharu Takahashi - Tokyo Institute of Technology Hiroki Eimura - University of Tokyo Qi Wang - Tsinghua University Yuan Xu - Tsinghua University Ashley Adams - Research Experience for Teachers - Jefferson Middle School, Madison, WI Kelvin Smith - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - Auburn University Heberth A Diestra Cruz - Visiting PhD Student - University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez Frederic Mondiot, PhD - Research Associates |
Caterina Maria Tone - Visiting Graduate Student - University of Calabria (UNICAL)
Maria Beatriz Costa Madeira - University of Pennsylvania Jinlu Liu - Zhejiang University, China Xiaoping Hu - Visiting Professor - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China Ankit Agarwal, PhD - Assistant Scientist Aaron Lowe, PhD - Research Associate Tyler Nelson - Research Intern Yutaka Takahashi - Visiting Research Associate - University of Tokyo Kris Richardson - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - University of Toledo Jose Alberto Gomez Jr. - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - Tecnológico de Monterrey (Monterrey Tech) Gladys Roldan - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - Polytechnic University Eduardo Mariño fernández - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) Luis Daniel Vega Alonso - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla Angel D. Cortés Morales - Research Experience for Undergraduates Student - University of Puerto Rico - Mayagüez Vicki Meli, PhD - Research Associate Claire Pizzey, PhD - Research Associate Seya Ito, PhD - Visiting Research Associate - Tokyo University of Science, Japan Joon-Seo Park, PhD - Research Associate Tatsuo Maruyama, PhD - Visiting Asst. Professor - Tokyo University Chang-Hyun Jang, PhD - Research Associate Nathan Lockwood, PhD - Research Associate Govindaraju Thimmaiah, PhD - Research Associate Yung-Jung Hsu, PhD - Visiting Assistant Scientist - National Tsing Hua University Yukishige Kondo, PhD - Visiting Assistant Professor - Tokyo University Elvira Tjipto - Visiting Research Associate - University of Melbourne, Australia Yan-Yeung Luk, PhD - Research Associate Kun-Lin Yang, PhD - Research Associate Koji Tsuchiya - Visiting Associate Scientist - Tokyo University of Science, Japan Seung-Ryeol Kim, PhD - Research Associate |
