Design and Reverse-Engineering of Soft Solids and Microstructured Fluids

Competitive advantage

• Broad experience designing complex fluid microstructures, their large-scale manufacture, and their performance on biological and synthetic targets.
• Versatile adaptation of existing technology and additives to create
• new-to-the-world functions like:
  • Biomimetic particle shape-change and response in passive and
  • active modes
  • Delivery and adhesion to complex surfaces under extreme conditions
  • Rapid technology functional adaption from rare compounds to approved additives

Successful applications

• First artificial vernix for prevention of premature infant skin infections
• Responsive materials for biological tissue targeting in respiratory therapy and hair follicle fungus

Capabilities and facilities

• Microrheological measures for tiny volumes, small samples, and miniscule mechanical properties
• Microfluidic production of prototype materials and their performance testing
• High speed studies of droplet impacts and flow