Our day tour started with visit to City College of New York. CCNY School of Engineering was one of the first public institutions of its kind, and is still the only public school of engineering in New York City. It is also a flagship PhD granting college within the City University of New York. It is located on North Manhattan. We have visited the group of Jeffrey Morris which includes six faculty who focus on: Colloids, polymers, gels, emulsions, grains and powders and network systems. Their goal is to understand why and how are multiphase mixtures truly different from single component flows.
The first session started with the introduction presentations by Remko Boom and Jeffrey Morris, and those were followed by the presentations given by PhD students from WUR. Yvette presented her project which focus on Deterministic Ratchet Technology for Regeneration of Dilute Waste Water Suspensions. Anna and Martijntje presented experimental and modelling aspects in mild fractionation of emulsions and suspensions. From CCNY side, Sandeep Kulkarni gave a presentation about Dense Suspension Flows, while Ehssan Nazockdast presented Microstructural Theory of Sheared Suspensions. The session was concluded with presentation given by Xiujuan Cao about Colloidal Silica Gelation Dynamics.
This visit ended with the lab tour. Microfluidics, Rheometry and Complex-fluids labs were visited. There is no doubt that the short time for discussion during the breaks will be followed through new made contacts.
We have continued our journey visiting New York University. The University is located on Broadway. We have visited the Department of Physics & Centre for Soft Matter Research and group of David Grier. The meeting was kicked off with Remko’s presentation about Food Process Enineering Group and David’s welcome note. This introduction part was followed Ruud’s talk about Fractination of Food Suspensions Using Microfluidic Devices and Kashif`s focus on Electrostatic Spraying.
David Grier also presented their work done on Optical Forces Arising From Phase Gradients. Ke Xiao, graduate student from NYU presented his work about Prismatic Optical Fractination with Optical Trap Arrays. This was followed by talk about Holographic Video Microscopy given by another PhD fellow, Fook Chiong Cheong.
The last item on the program was also the lab tour.
To conclude, we have been received with great hospitality on both locations and the day ended with wine and “fromaggio” at the department hall of NYU.
Written by: Vukasin Draganovic
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