Associate Professor
Email: srazavi@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-5458
Office: Sarkeys Energy Center, Room T-229
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The Razavi Lab conducts research on the behavior of complex fluids near surfaces and interfaces. These interfacial systems, consisting of surfactants, nanoparticles, and polymers, play a crucial role in various industrial and technological processes such as agrochemical delivery, coatings, and processing of protein solutions. Despite their importance, many aspects of the interactions between solution components, with other fluids, and at material interfaces remain unknown. The primary focus of our research is to gain a fundamental understanding and ultimately predict the thermodynamic, transport, and deformation properties of complex fluidic systems. We aim to expand the current knowledge of interfacial systems involving isotropic particles and extend it to technologically relevant particles with engineered surface heterogeneity and anisotropy. Our research findings contribute to the development of sustainable soft materials and the engineering of solutions for complex interfaces encountered in challenges related to "water and energy sustainability.
