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.
Questions: gilchrist@lehigh.edu
Our group (from left to right): Pao Kumnorkaew, Ryan Slopek, Jim Gilchrist,
Ken Ford, Changbao Gao, and Roy Xu.
External news:
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
June, 2006: Revenge of the NIRTs, Part II
Recent news: (Click here for past news.)
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.
March, 2008: Pao Kumnorkaew successfully defends his preliminary defense!
March, 2008: Ken Ford successfully defends his thesis!
March, 2008: Pao Kumnorkaew receives an outstanding poster award for his presentation at a conference on Polymer Nanocomposites.
January, 2008: Dr. Ryan Slopek joins the Laboratory for Particle Mixing and Self-Organization.
January, 2008: Changbao Gao and Prof. Gilchrist's article is accepted to Physical Review E.
November, 2007: Pao Kumnorkaew and Prof. Gilchrist's article in collaboration with the Tansu group accepted to Applied Physics Letters.
November, 2007: Ken Ford presents his talk entitled "Power Consumption And Granular Flow In A Vibro-Fluidized Stirred Granular Bed", in collaboration with Prof. Hugo S. Caram, at the AIChE Annual meeting
September, 2007: Bu (Roy) Xu successfully defends his qualifying exam!
June, 2007: Changbao Gao presents his talk entitled "Shear-induced migration of suspensions in 3D microfluidic geometries" at the ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium
June, 2007: Pisist (Pao) Kumnorkaew presents his talk entitled "Deposition of microsphere monolayers for microlens arrays" at the ACS Colloids and Surface Science Symposium
June, 2007: Prof. Gilchrist is chosen as the NAMF Startup Grant recipient. This and other recent work is mentioned in the College Faculty Achievement Update.
April, 2007: Changbao Gao successfully defends his preliminary defense!
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