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Venkat R. Thalladi

Assistant Professor

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Office: Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center, 3021
Phone: +1-508-831-5224
Fax: +1-508-831-5933
thalladi@wpi.edu

Research & Teaching Interests

Organic Materials; Self-Assembly Approaches to Micro- and Nanotechnology; Polymorphism in Drugs

Research

Research in our group is interdisciplinary: it uses the concepts of chemistry to create materials that are relevant to photonics, nonlinear optics, biology, and medicine. Our group works in the general areas of materials, solid-state, and supramolecular chemistry, and chemical approaches to micro- and nanofabrication. All the work requires development of the fundamental skills of experimental chemistry: synthesis and characterization of new organic compounds, examination of relations between molecular structure and reactivity or physical properties. Currently we are pursuing the following research projects:

Polymorphism in Pharmaceutical Drugs
Organic Octupolar Nonlinear Optical Materials
Self-Assembly Approaches to Nanofabrication
Crystals of Crystals: Photonic Materials at the Micron and Sub-Micron Length-Scales
Chemical Applications of Microfluidics

Students who work in our group will be exposed to a variety of research techniques: chemical synthesis, crystal growth, X-ray diffraction, surface chemistry, photo- and soft-lithography, microfluidics, computation and simulation, and atomic and molecular level imaging.

We have openings for several MQP projects. If interested please drop by my office or contact me by e-mail.

Recent Publications

Generation of 30-50 nm Structures Using Easily Fabricated, Composite PDMS Masks." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 12112-12113. T.W. Odom, V.R Thalladi, J.C. Love, G.M. Whitesides
Crystals of crystals: Fabrication of Encapsulated and Ordered Two-dimensional Arrays of Microcrystals J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 3521-3522 V.R. Thalladi, G.M. Whitesides
Simulation of Indentation Fracture in Crystalline Materials Using Mesoscale Self-Assembly J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 9912-9917 V.R. Thalladi, A. Schwartz, J.N. Phend, J. W. Hutchinson, G.M. Whitesides
Using Hierarchical Self-Assembly to Form Three-Dimensional Lattices of Spheres J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 14495-14502. H. Wu, V.R. Thalladi, S. Whitesides, G.M. Whitesides
Dissections: Self-Assembled Aggregates That Spontaneously Reconfigure Their Structures When Their Environment Changes J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 14508-14509. C. Mao, V.R. Thalladi, D. B. Wolfe, S. Whitesides, G.M. Whitesides

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