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My primary interests are in interfacial engineering, thin films, and mass transfer. One area is the equilibrium and dynamic tensions at air/water interfaces, which are important in drop spreading and coating flows of aqueous solutions. A second area is the effect of the processing method on the final properties of ultrathin organic films. We study primarily the Langmuir-Blodgett method and the spin-coating method, for films 0.001 – 5 m m in thickness. We determine the optical film quality using ellipsometry, the wettability of the films, and the mass transfer properties of the films using in-situ infrared spectroscopy.

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