Welcome to the Laboratory for Particle Mixing and Self-Organization (LPMSO). Please feel free to explore our website and learn more about what we do. This laboratory is in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University and is directed by Professor James Gilchrist.
Our group (from left to right): Alex Weldon, Roy Xu, Jim Gilchrist, Pao Kumnorkaew
Dr. Changbao Gao, and Erg Muangnapoh. More group pictures here.
External news:
September, 2009: MICRO-OPTICS: Concave microlenses boost LED output
April, 2009: The minutest choreography
March, 2009: Student's bright, energy-efficient research recognized
November, 2008: Lehigh research on display at national convention
November, 2008: Pisist Kumnorkaew and Prof. Gilchrist's paper in collaboration with Yik Khoon Ee and Prof. Tansu from ECE featured on the cover of Langmuir.
October, 2008: Collaboration with Professor Tansu from ECE mentioned in college article.
January, 2008: Microlens arrays improve the extraction efficiency of nitride LEDs
October, 2007: Particle flows: "Not all stirring is equal"
October, 2007: More efficient LEDs for a brighter future
October, 2006: Living large in the nano world
June, 2006: Revenge of the NIRTs, Part II
Recent news: (Click here for past news.)
December, 2009: Changbao Gao successfully defends his thesis!
December, 2009: Ryan Slopek and Prof. Gilchrist's manuscript on dielectrophoresis is accepted to Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
November, 2009: Tanyakorn (Erg) Muangnapoh joins the lab!
September, 2009: Alex Weldon successfully defends his qualifying exam!
August, 2009: Bu Xu successfully defends his proposal!
August, 2009: Pisist Kumnorkaew, Alex Weldon, and Prof. Gilchrist's manuscript on binary convective deposition is accepted to Langmuir.
June, 2009: Changbao Gao, Pisist Kumnorkaew, and Prof. Gilchrist present their research at the ACS Colloids and Surface Science Meeting.
May, 2009: Presentation by Kenneth Ford and Professors Gilchrist and Caram at the 2008 AIChE Annual Meeting is awarded the Particle Technology Forum 2008 Best Paper Award (Area 3C).
May, 2009: Pisist Kumnorkaew presents his work at the 12th Annual Tiger-Hen-Hawk Rheology Symposium, hosted at Lehigh University
April, 2009: Pisist Kumnorkaew selected to present his work at the 2009 Lehigh Academic Symposium.
April, 2009: Corey Luthringer places third for her work on DEP assisted assembly of microfluidic networks at the RCEAS 2009 Undergraduate Research Symposium. She will present this work at the 2009 Lehigh Academic Symposium
April, 2009: Professors Gilchrist and Nelson Tansu, with collaborator Franky So at U. Florida, awarded $950k grant by DOE.
March, 2009: Pisist Kumnorkaew's paper on convective deposition of binary suspensions accepted to Langmuir.
March, 2009: Article in collaboration with Yik Khoon Ee and Professor Tansu accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics is accepted.
March, 2009: Professor Cheng and Gilchrist will participate in the Biosystems Dynamics Summer Institute.
February, 2009: Changbao Gao and Bu Xu's paper is accepted in Physical Review E.
December, 2008: Yik-Khoon Ee, a graduate student in Professor Tansu's Laboratory received the 'Best Paper Award' from the IEEE Photonics Global Conference in Singapore presenting work from his collaboration with Pisist Kumnorkaew and Prof. Gilchrist.
December, 2008: Alex Weldon joins the Gilchrist Lab!
November, 2008: Ken Ford's paper with Professors Caram and Gilchrist accepted to Powder Technology.
November, 2008: The entire Gilchrist Lab presents at the Annual AIChE Meeting in Philadelphia.
September, 2008: Prof. Gilchrist has a new addition in his family!
June, 2008: Prof. Gilchrist, in collaboration with Prof. Xuanhong Cheng and Prof. Nelson Tansu, receive a $300k grant from NSF for microsphere deposition.
April, 2008: Pao Kumnorkaew and Prof. Gilchrist's article is accepted to Langmuir.
April, 2008: Everyone from the Gilchrist laboratory attends the 11th Tiger-Hen-Hawk Rheology Symposium to see graduate presentations including Changbao Gao's talk and Pao Kumnorkaew's poster.
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