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Feb 01, 2026 Paper submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics: “Electrokinetic Effects on Flow and Ion Transport in Charge-Patterned Corrugated Nanochannels.” Preprint available on arXiv.
Jan 15, 2026 Petersen Lab receives the USC CEE Oliveri Sustainable Prosperity Fund ($16,000) for “Size-dependent transport mechanisms of contaminants through porous media.”
Sep 01, 2025 Welcome to Nusrat Jahan, who joins the group as a new Ph.D. student working on dissolution and fracture of clay networks in microfluidic domains!
Jun 01, 2025 Amir Rabiee and Pouya Golchin present their research at the 2025 ASCE EMI Conference in Anaheim, CA.
Apr 01, 2024 Paper published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B: “Toward Modeling the Structure of Electrolytes at Charged Mineral Interfaces using Classical Density Functional Theory.”