News

March 23, 2026
New paper led by Jake Minten in JFM reveals how friction between colloids emerges as a hydrodynamic consequence of surface roughness, even without contact! Read it here.

March 17, 2027
Xiaokang presents his work on colloidal pattern formation in oscillating flows at the APS Global Summit in Denver!

February 13, 2026
New paper in Physical Review Research on the formation of polynyas around polar coastlines. Read it here.

December 17, 2025
New paper in Langmuir on wicking in paper microchannels with surface features, in collaboration with Hideaki Tsutsui’s group! Read it here.

December 9, 2025
New paper in JFM on microswimmers near membranes, in collaboration with Naomi Oppenheimer’s group! Read it here.

November 25, 2025
The group attends the APS DFD meeting in Houston! Xiaokang and Jake present, Bhargav gives an invited talk.

October 8, 2025
New lab website!

August 26, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Xirui Zhang for defending his PhD thesis!