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Investigating the effect of oil spills
on the environment and public health.

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Thomas M. Truskett

The University of Texas at Austin

Department of Chemical Engineering

1 University Station C0400
Austin, TX 78712

truskett@che.utexas.edu

Project List:

Consortium for the Molecular Engineering of Dispersant Systems (C-MEDS)

Year 2-4 Consortia Grants (RFP-I)Role: Co-Principal Investigator, Task Co-Lead

Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles - 9
2015
Bollinger, J. A., Jain, A., & Truskett, T. M. (2015). How Local and Average Particle Diffusivities of Inhomogeneous Fluids Depend on Microscopic Dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. B, 119(29), 9103–9113.
Jadrich, R. B., Bollinger, J. A., Johnston, K. P., & Truskett, T. M. (2015). Origin and detection of microstructural clustering in fluids with spatial-range competitive interactions. Phys. Rev. E, 91(4).
Yu, G., Dong, J., Foster, L. M., Metaxas, A. E., Truskett, T. M., & Johnston, K. P. (2015). Breakup of Oil Jets into Droplets in Seawater with Environmentally Benign Nanoparticle and Surfactant Dispersants. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 54(16), 4243–4251.
2014
Bollinger, J. A., Jain, A., & Truskett, T. M. (2014). Structure, Thermodynamics, and Position-Dependent Diffusivity in Fluids with Sinusoidal Density Variations. Langmuir, 30(28), 8247–8252.
Carmer, J., van Swol, F., & Truskett, T. M. (2014). Position-dependent and pair diffusivity profiles from steady-state solutions of color reaction-counterdiffusion problems. J. Chem. Phys., 141(4), 046101.
Dong, J., Worthen, A. J., Foster, L. M., Chen, Y., Cornell, K. A., Bryant, S. L., et al. (2014). Modified Montmorillonite Clay Microparticles for Stable Oil-in-Seawater Emulsions. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 6(14), 11502–11513.
Foster, L. M., Worthen, A. J., Foster, E. L., Dong, J., Roach, C. M., Metaxas, A. E., et al. (2014). High Interfacial Activity of Polymers “Grafted through” Functionalized Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Clusters. Langmuir, 30(34), 10188–10196.
Jain, A., Bollinger, J. A., & Truskett, T. M. (2014). Inverse methods for material design. AIChE J., 60(8), 2732–2740.
Worthen, A. J., Foster, L. M., Dong, J., Bollinger, J. A., Peterman, A. H., Pastora, L. E., et al. (2014). Synergistic Formation and Stabilization of Oil-in-Water Emulsions by a Weakly Interacting Mixture of Zwitterionic Surfactant and Silica Nanoparticles. Langmuir, 30(4), 984–994.
Conference Presentation - 1
2014
Bollinger, J. A., Jain, A., & Truskett, T. M. (2014). Position-dependent structural, thermodynamic, and diffusive responses in water due to interfaces and solutes. In Gordon Research Conference – Water & Aqueous Solutions. Holderness, NH : 7/1/2014.