Soft matter lab at DCI, UGTO
Our main interest is colloidal science, in particular: rheology and microrheology of complex fluids, colloidal dynamics under confinement, anisotropic colloids, active colloids in confinement or trapped in optical tweezers, application of deep learning on soft matter, and more recently interaction of colloids with laser-induced external fields, including application of optical tweezers in colloids and in Biophysics.
We are also interested in the propagation of light in turbid media: biomedical applications of the recovery of optical properties, Monte Carlo methods for simulating light propagation, and the development of dynamic light scattering techniques for soft matter research.
Contact:
Tel: + 52 477 788 5100 ext 8494
e-mail: esarmiento(at)fisica.ugto.mx, esargom(at)gmail.com
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Current students working in the lab:
Juan Manuel Molina (PhD student)
Norma Palmero (PhD student)
Daniela Ramirez (Master student)
Juan Daniel Rivera (Master student)
Sol María Hernández (PhD student)
Natalia Margarita Zepeda (undergraduate)
Paramagnetic group: Sarahi, Arely, Emilio (undergraduate)
Microfluidic group: Axel, Luis (undergraduate)
Close collaborator: Natalia Rincón (Associate Professor, DCI, UGTO)
Recently accepted papers:
Non-disruptive mixing of cyclodextrins and wormlike micelles in the non-dilute regime
Distribution of cage size smooths the transition from diffusive to caging in Microrheology
Trapping and manipulation of bubbles with holographic optical tweezers
On the Brownian motion of a colloid trapped in optical tweezers: Experiments and simulations
Optical tweezers to measure the elasticity of red blood cells: a tool to study the erythrocyte response to antimalarials
The evolution of the demixing morphology in quasi 2D water-lutidine mixtures: a fractal dimension analysis
Mechanical characterization of the Erythrocyte Membrane Using a Capacitor-Based Technique.
Recently graduated students:
Victor Hugo Herrera Canales (master thesis)