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Wonjae Choi
Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas
USA
Biography
Dr. Choi received his PhD degree in 2009 from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His doctoral research topic was the omniphobicity, i.e., repellency against all liquids, of textured solid surfaces. He then joined the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard, where he worked on the behavior of two-phase complex fluids (one fluid dispersed in the other) in confined geometries. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Research Interest
His current research interests lie in understanding and manipulating the behavior of fluids at small length scales, e.g., 100 nm – 10 um, to address some of the key challenges in the areas of bio-inspired engineering and energy science. Compared to the macroscopic fluid mechanics, fluids at small scale possess a significantly higher surface to volume ratio. Consequently, interfacial phenomena (e.g., interfacial tension, surface charge, hydrophobic effects) dominate the behavior of various natural or synthetic fluidic systems at small scales. Applications that can benefit from an improved understanding in this area include filters, coatings, heat exchangers, and hemodynamics.