Winners of Best Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Award

Steffen M. Recktenwald
1st Place, 95th Annual Meeting, Oct 2024, Austin
Morphology, repulsion, and ordering of red blood cells in viscoelastic confined flows

Steffen M. Recktenwald1, Yazdan Rashidi2, Ian Graham3, Paulo E. Arratia3, Francesco Del Giudice4 and Christian Wagner2

1Micro, Bio, Nanofluidics Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate Univers, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan; 2Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany; 3Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 4Department of Chemical Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Steffen M. Recktenwald
1st Place, 93rd Annual Meeting, Oct 2022, Chicago
AI-powered single-cell analysis to probe in-vitro capillary blood flow

Steffen M. Recktenwald1, Greta Simionato2, Marcelle Lopes3, Lars Kaestner4, Stephan Quint3 and Christian Wagner1

1Department of Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany; 2Institute for Clinical and Experimental Surgery, Saarland Campus University Hospital, Homburg, Germany; 3Cysmic GmbH, Saarbruecken, Germany; 4Theoretical Medicine and Biosciences, Saarland Campus University Hospital, Homburg, Germany

Diego Becerra
2nd Place, 93rd Annual Meeting, Oct 2022, Chicago
Polymer rheology predictions from first principles using the slip-link model

Diego Becerra1, Andrés Córdoba2, Maria Katzarova3, Marat Andreev4, David C. Venerus5 and Jay D. Schieber6

1Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; 2Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; 3Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; 4Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; 5Chemical & Materials Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ; 6uCoSM, IIT, Chicago, IL

Shravan Pradeep
3rd Place, 93rd Annual Meeting, Oct 2022, Chicago
Engineering flow mechanics in dense suspensions of surface-anisotropic colloids

Shravan Pradeep1 and Lilian Hsiao2

1Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Steffen M. Recktenwald
1st Place, 91st Annual Meeting, Oct 2019, Raleigh
Cross-sectional focusing and vortex dynamics of red blood cells in a constricted microfluidic channel

Steffen M. Recktenwald1, Asena Abay1, Thomas John1, Lars Kaestner2, and Christian Wagner1

1Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany; 2Theoretical Medicine and Biosciences, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

Nicolas Moreno
1st Place, 89th Annual Meeting, Oct 2017, Denver
Design of patchy nanoparticles via the self-assembly of triblock terpolymers in selective solvents

Nicolas Moreno and Eliot Fried

Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Japan

André De Almeida
2nd Place, 89th Annual Meeting, Oct 2017, Denver
Linear and non-linear rheology of PBT/PTHF segmented copolymers

André De Almeida1, Guilhem P. Baeza1, and Dimitris Vlassopoulos2

1INSA Lyon, Villeurbanne, France; 2FORTH-IESL, HERAKLION, Greece

Safa Jamali
1st Place, 88th Annual Meeting, Feb 2017, Tampa
Microstructure, rheology and heterogeneity in colloidal gels

Safa Jamali, Gareth H. McKinley, and Robert C. Armstrong

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139

Gregg A. Duncan
1st Place, 87th Annual Meeting, Oct 2015, Baltimore
Altered sputum microstructure as a marker of airway obstruction in cystic fibrosis patients

Gregg A. Duncan1, James Jung1, Michael P. Boyle2, Natalie E. West2, Jung Soo Suk1, and Justin Hanes1

1Center for Nanomedicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; 2Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Folarin Latinwo
1st Place, 86th Annual Meeting, Oct 2014, Philadelphia
Generalized work relations for polymer solution rheology

Folarin Latinwo1, Patrick Corona2, Joshua Moller2, and Charles M. Schroeder2

1Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; 2Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

David Nieto Simavilla
2nd Place, 86th Annual Meeting, Oct 2014, Philadelphia
Investigation of thermal transport in polymers using infrared thermography

David Nieto Simavilla, David C. Venerus, and Jay D. Schieber

Chemical and Biological Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616

Sarah Hormozi
1st Place, 85th Annual Meeting, Oct 2013, Montréal
Frozen-in patterns in yield stress fluid

Sarah Hormozi, Geoffrey Dunbrack, Amir Maleki Zamenjani, and Ian Frigaard

Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Simon Rogers
2nd Place, 85th Annual Meeting, Oct 2013, Montréal
The sequencing of dynamic rheological measurements

Simon Rogers

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

Damien C. Vadillo
1st Place, 82nd Annual Meeting, Oct 2010, Santa Fe
Jetting of low viscoelasticity low viscosity polymeric solutions

Damien C. Vadillo1, Malcolm R. Mackley2, and Amit Mulji2

1Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge

James W. Swan
2nd Place, 82nd Annual Meeting, Oct 2010, Santa Fe
The constant shear stress rheology of concentrated colloidal dispersions

James W. Swan1 and John F. Brady2

1Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology; 2Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Johannes M. Soulages
1st Place, 81st Annual Meeting, Oct 2009, Madison
An opposed-nozzle fixture for measuring the extensional properties of low viscosity liquids using a conventional controlled strain rheometer

Johannes M. Soulages1, Florian Le Goupil1, Jürg Hostettler2, and Gareth H. McKinley1

1MIT; 2ETH Zürich

Pouyan Boukany
2nd Place, 81st Annual Meeting, Oct 2009, Madison
Molecular imaging of wall slip and shear banding in entangled DNA solutions

Pouyan Boukany1, Orin L. Hemminger1, Shi-Qing Wang2, and L J. Lee1

1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University; 2Department of Polymer Science, The University of Akron