Maldarelli, Koplik, and Couzis are developing transport models to describe the adsorption of surfactant from aqueous micellar solutions on an air/aqueous interface. These studies rely on molecular dynamics simulations to examine whether the micelles adsorb directly and the interface or as individual molecules following disintegration near the interface.


SESMI students will conduct surface tension measurements using the sessile bubble methodology and will be introduced to molecular dynamics simulation methods.