Jared Morrissette

Research Statement: 

Jared is working on liquid-repellent coatings. These coatings are made using various material systems, where some are entirely water-based and can repel water, while others are fluorinated and are repellent to low-surface-tension liquids. Throughout the coating development process, Jared uses numerous physical/chemical characterization techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR).

Activities/Hobbies outside of research: 

1. Polymer/Nanoparticle Wettability Patterned Surfaces for High-Rate Microfluidic Transport – 4th Joint US-European Fluids Division Summer Meeting (Chicago,IL – August 2014)
2. Capillarity-driven Surface Microfluidic Transport using Wettability Patterned Substrates – 41st National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (Kanpur, India – December 2014)
3. Wettability Patterned Surfaces for Efficient Liquid Mixing – Gordon Research Conference: Nano-Mechanical Interfaces (Hong Kong, China – July 2015)
4. J. M. Morrissette, P. Sinha Mahapatra, A. Ghosh, R. Ganguly and C. M. Megaridis, “Rapid, Self-driven Liquid Mixing on Open-Surface Microfluidic Platforms,” Scientific Reports 7, 1800, 2017. Journal Link

B. S. (Mechanical Engineering) -2015– University of Illinois at Chicago