I am interested in interfacial properties of nanoemulsions droplets.
Publications List
Nanoemulsions: Formation, Structure, and Physical Properties, T. G. Mason, J. N. Wilking, K. Meleson, C. B. Chang, S. M. Graves, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 18, R635 (2006). Featured in ëTop Papers 2006 Showcaseí
Dense Cluster Formation during Aggregation and Gelation of Attractive Slippery Nanoemulsion Droplets, J. N. Wilking, S. M. Graves, C. B. Chang, K. Meleson, M. Y. Lin and T. G. Mason, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 015501, (2006), Featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.
Quantification of methylene blue aggregation on a fused silica surface and resolution of individual absorbance spectra, S.M. Ohline, S. Lee, S. Williams, C. Chang, Chem. Phys. Lett. 346, 9, (2001).
Research
Experience
Research Assistant, UCAR Carbon Company, Inc.(Cleveland, OH) - Studied coke, graphite, and carbon samples by methods of Ashing, ICP, Gas Chromatography, Liquid Chromatography, and NMR, summers of 1996 and 1997.
Research Assistant, Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) - Conducted research in physical chemistry using nonlinear optical techniques on a picosecond laser and atomic force microscopy, 1998-1999.
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, UCLA (16 academic quarters). Course titles and number of academic quarters taught:
General and Organic Chemistry Laboratory I (14CL, 1 quarter)
General Chemistry Laboratory (20L, 1 quarter)
Chemical Structures (20A, 2 quarters)
Chemical Energetics and Change (Honors) (20BH, 1 quarter)
Physical Chemistry: Chemical Thermodynamics (110A, 5 quarters)
Biophysical Chemistry (156, 1 quarter)
Education
University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) ñ Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, expected June 2008. Advisor: Professor Thomas G. Mason
 
Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (Boulder, CO) - Physics of Soft Matter: Complex Fluids and Biological Materials, July 2006
 
Wellesley College (Wellesley, MA) ñ B.A. in Chemistry, May 1999