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)
Christian Imanol (Master student)
Jorge Fabián Hernández (Master student)
Natalia Margarita Zepeda (undergraduate)
Paramagnetic group: Sarahi, Arely, Emilio (undergraduate)
Microfluidic group: Axel, Luis (undergraduate)
Daniel Vargas (undergraduate)
Recently accepted papers:
Local area distribution of quasi-2D colloidal dispersions and its relation to particle diffusion: a Voronoi tessellation approach
Colloidal Transport in Periodic Potentials: The Role of Modulated-Crowding
Learning the structure of a 2D colloidal suspension through deep learning from bright-field images
Light-propelled dimeric micro-rotor in a binary critical mixture
The evolution of the demixing morphology in quasi 2D water-lutidine mixtures: a fractal dimension analysis
Distribution of cage size smooths the transition from diffusive to caging in microrheology
Trapping and manipulation of bubbles with holographic optical tweezers
Recently graduated students:
Victor Hugo Herrera Canales (master thesis)