Stephen Garoff
Professor
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
United States of America
Biography
PhD: Harvard University, Applied Physics (1977) M.S.: Harvard University, Applied Physics (1974) B.S.: Yale University (1972) Professional Societies: American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, Materials Research Society Fellow, American Physical Society Head, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 2013– Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1988– Professor of Chemical Engineering (Courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University, 1988– Professor of Materials Science & Engineering (Courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University, 1988– Research Scientist: Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT, 1986–88 Research Scientist: Exxon Research, Annandale, NJ, 1977–86
Research Interest
Soft Matter / Biological Physics Experiment
Publications
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R. Sharma, R. Kalita, E. R. Swanson, T. E. Corcoran, S. Garoff, T. M. Przybycien, R. D. Tilton, Autophobing on liquid subphases driven by the interfacial transport of amphiphilic molecules, Langmuir 28, 15212 (2012)
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R. Sharma, T. E. Corcoran, S. Garoff, T. M. Przybycien, E. R. Swanson, R. D. Tilton, Quasi-immiscible spreading of aqueous surfactant solutions on entangled aqueous polymer solution subphases, ACS Appl. Mat.. Interf. 5, 5542 (2013)
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R. Sharma, A. Khanal, T. E. Corcoran, S. Garoff, T. M. Przybycien, R. D. Tilton, Surfactant driven post-deposition spreading of aerosols on complex aqueous subphases. 2: Low deposition flux representative of aerosol delivery to small airways, J. Aerosol Med. Pulmonary Drug Deliv. 28, 394 (2015)
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Y. Zhang, S. D. Oberdick, E. R. Swanson, S. L. Anna, S. Garoff, Gravity driven current during the coalescence of two sessile drops, Phys. Fluids 27, 22101 (2015)
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G. Dunéra, M. Kim, R. D. Tilton, S. Garoff, T. M. Przybycien, Effect of polyelectrolyte–surfactant complexation on Marangoni transport at a liquid–liquid interface, J. Colloid Interf. Sci. 467, 105 (2016)
