Pieter Stroeve, Professor of Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
University of California, Davis

We do fundamental work on colloid and surface science, nanotechnology, self-assembled monolayers, Langmuir-Blodgett films, supported lipid bilayers, reactive transport in colloids, biotechnology, electrochemical engineering, and membrane transport. We have developed theoretical models for reactive transport in cellular suspensions and transport with multiple reversible reactions in colloidal solutions, particularly colloidal solutions of the blood proteins hemoglobin and albumin. We have quantified the simultaneous transport of monomers and micelles in porous membranes. We demonstrated the semi-permeable transport properties in layer-by-layer films of polyions. We also developed a method on the nucleation and growth of nanoparticles in layer-by-layer polyion films approximately 15 nm thick.

Our work is of multidisciplinary nature and I have collaborated with researchers inside and outside the USA. We have research collaborations with Dr. Alexandr Noy at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on using single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and silicon nanowires as biosensors, with Prof. Young Soo Kang of Pukyong National University, Pusan, Korea, Prof. Y.C. Ke from the Petroleum University, Beijing, China and Dr. Jarek Majewski of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. We also established research collaborations with Prof. Salvador Mafe at the University of Valencia and Prof. Patricio Ramirez at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain. At UC Davis, we have collaborations with Professors Ahmet Palazoglu and Diane Barrett.