Associate Professor Nily Dan
Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
3141 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
T: (215) 895-6624
F: (215) 895-5837
 
 
Group Members
 
Nily Dan
Associate Professor
 
Kevin Towles
PhD Student
 
 
Drexel Links
  1. •  Drexel Home
  2. •  ChE Homepage
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Conference Links
  1. •  New England Complex Fluids  Workgroup (NECF)
  2. •  ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium
  3. •  Gordon Conferences
 
Other Links
  1. •  AIChE
  2. •  ACS
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Condensed Matter Physics Group
Research Interests
  1.  The use of FRET for determination of membrane domain size
  2.  Synthesis of metal nanoclusters in polymeric matrices
  3.  Phase separation in cholesterol-containing lipid membranes
  4.  Dissolution of polymeric vesicles by non-ionic detergents
  5.  Effect of drug properties on the rate of release from PLGA matrices
  6.  Manifestations of enzyme dynamic instability
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The condensed matter physics group here at Drexel University, officially a part of the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, is interested in applying physical models to what often appear as complex biological and physical systems.  Ultimately, our goal is to elucidate the mechanisms and simple physical phenomenon that generally occur on small length and time scales and link these to the bulk behavior of the system.  Nature continues to amaze us as researches, and it is our challenge to truly understand why things work the way they do.  
 
A 14th century logician named William of Ockham once supposed entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, or literally translated, entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.  Occam’s razor, as it has become known, suggests that the simplest solution is often the correct one, and we operate with much the same beliefs today as scientific investigators.
 
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