April 28, 2006

Royal Society of Chemistry Features Research of Two NC State Engineers

Illustrations from research conducted by two NC State chemical engineering researchers are featured on the covers of two top journals. (Photos: Reproduced by permission of the Royal Society of Chemistry.)

The April 7, 2006, combined issue of the Journal of Materials Chemistry and Soft Matter published by the Royal Society of Chemistry features cover illustrations by two North Carolina State University engineers. Soft Matter features an illustration from the work of Dr. Jan Genzer, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State, and Dr. Jan Groenewold of Utrecht University in The Netherlands. The cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry features an illustration from the work of Dr. Orlin Velev, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State, and two of his graduate students, Daniel Kuncicky and Brian Prevo.

Genzer’s article, “Soft Matter with Hard Skin: From Skin Wrinkles to Templating and Material Characterization,” describes how and why wrinkles/buckles form in various materials. Velev’s article, “Controlled Assembly of SERS Substrates Templated by Colloidal Crystal Films,” explores the use of gold nanofilms for potential sensor applications.

To view the cover illustrations, visit http://www.rsc.org/softmatterand http://www.rsc.org/materials.

— weston —

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