Membrane and Interfaces

Presentations

• Influence of Free Surfaces on Polymorph Selection in Vapor-Deposited Glasses of Organic Semiconductors

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Chinecherem Nkele

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Chinecherem Nkele

    • Rice University

  • Lingyu Wang

  • Kushal Bagchi

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• To blister or not to blister: the importance of finite size effects

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Anthony Bonfils

    • Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

  Authors

  • Anthony Bonfils

    • Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics

  • Doireann O'Kiely

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• Lipid-Vesicles Mediate Self-Limited Self-Assembly of Polymer-Grafted Janus Nanoparticles

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Jordan Darling

    • University of Memphis

  Authors

  • Jordan Darling

    • University of Memphis

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• Vesicle Concentration as a Factor in NaCl-Induced Structural Transitions of Lipid Vesicles

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Stefanie Klisch

    • Louisiana State University

  Authors

  • Stefanie Klisch

    • Louisiana State University

  • Gerald Schneider

    • Louisiana State University

  • Piper Schertzer

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• ORDERING EFFECT OF PERFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCES ON LIPID BILAYERS

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Sekou Koisiah

    • Indiana University Indianapolis

  Authors

  • Sekou Koisiah

    • Indiana University Indianapolis

  • Horia Petrache

  • Stephen Wassall

  • Andres Cavazos

  • Emmanuel Osei

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• Shape instabilities and curvature localization in photo-isomerizing lipid GUVs controlled by excitation rate and tension

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Publication: Planned paper in progress; tentative title: "Driven shape transformations and curvature localization in photo-isomerizing lipid membranes"

  Presenters

  • Chris Oville

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Chris Oville

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Eeshan Ghaisas

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Haim Diamant

  • Anthony Dinsmore

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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• Ion transport through reconfigurable nanoparticle-surfactant stabilized droplet interface bilayers

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Publication: Ion transport through reconfigurable nanoparticle-surfactant stabilized droplet interface bilayers, PNAS, submitted

  Presenters

  • Thomas Russell

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Thomas Russell

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Xuefei Wu

    • LBNL

  • Han Xue

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Zachary Fink

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Zhiqin Xia

    • Materials Science Division; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Nivedina SHarma

  • Xuchen Gan

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • John Katsaras

    • University of Tennessee

  • Peter Ercius

  • Behzad Rad

  • Brett Helms

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Paul Ashby

  • Ahmad Omar

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Charles Collier

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• A Fast and Versitile Numerical Framework for Simulating Stiff, Semi-Flexible Membranes in Stokesian Fluids

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Brennan Sprinkle

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Brennan Sprinkle

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Ursy Makanga

  • Ryker Fish

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Madison Lytle

    • Colorado School of Mines

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• Acoustic aging of colloidal gels

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: S. Yerabati, R. Waheibi, N. Shakoury, and L. Hsiao, "Accelerating aging in colloidal dispersions using acoustics", expected publication - Summer 2026.

  Presenters

  • Shourie Yerabati

    • North Carolina State University

  Authors

  • Shourie Yerabati

    • North Carolina State University

  • Lilian Hsiao

    • North Carolina State University

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• Frozen Adhesive Dynamics in Soft Silicone Gels

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Sarah Dané Taïwé

  Authors

  • Sarah Dané Taïwé

  • Eli Welch

  • Arthur Boote

  • Katharine Jensen

    • Williams College

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• Multiscale prediction of self-assembly and phase behavior in multicomponent surfactant mixtures

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Publication: Prediction of Cationic Surfactant Phase Diagrams via Molecularly Informed Field Theory, in prep.

  Presenters

  • David Zhao

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • David Zhao

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Andrea Perez

  • Steven Arturo

  • Yihan Liu

  • Matthew Helgeson

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • M. Scott Shell

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Glenn Fredrickson

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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