James Swan

Professor MIT, Department of Chemical Engineering. Soft Matter, Statistical Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@Gilchrist_Lab Ready for political office.

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

The opportunity to know, work with, and mentor such remarkable young people is undoubtedly the best perk of this job.

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@Gilchrist_Lab @professor_meh I just like that one solution to the paradox introduces another.

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@professor_meh @Gilchrist_Lab You don't even need surface tension. A layer of paint has finite thickness. To fit into the nooks and crannies, the layer must get ever thinner. So you can paint the room with a finite amount of paint, but you need an infinite number of ever tinier brushes to apply it.

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@pauldauenhauer What if we did it in 3 yrs? Keep the tuition the same. Reduce the extra expenses by 1/4. Get the students out earning on their education 1 yr. sooner. Pay faculty a 12 mo. salary for the effort. 1 summer is a co-op. The others are "senior year." 25% higher training throughput.

[MIT MechE @MITMechE]

A new @softmatter study by Philippe Bourrianne, Paul Lilin, Gareth McKinley, Irmgard Bischofberger, and collaborators reveals novel crack morphologies that emerge during the drying of drops of nanoparticle suspensions. https://t.co/PnlSobEzRn

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

So long #SOR2021. It was great seeing such interesting talks and visiting with such engaging people. Until next year…

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@Gilchrist_Lab @SoRheology I just got here, but I’ll be back when the conference is over.

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

Excited for @SoRheology 2021. Sad I’ll have to give up this view of Beech Hill Pond 30 miles away. See you all in Bangor.

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@LilianHsiao @PhysRevLett @pradeep_shravan @SafaJamali Cool stuff Lilian. Well done.

[Lilian Hsiao @LilianHsiao]

Our new @PhysRevLett paper uses confocal rheometry to predict shear thickening using jamming distance. No microscope needed - try it for yourself. Congrats @pradeep_shravan @SafaJamali and coauthors! https://t.co/wAgktV7Txw

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@KWhiteheadLab @GallowayLabMIT I also had that conversation, but we all agreed I was probably careless and should fix it myself. I could be careless. But, he definitely picked it out of the back pocket of my Navy blue Jansport backpack when I was heading from the library to Latin class after lunch.

[Will Tisdale @TisdaleWA]

Postdoc opening joint with @Jim_Swan focused on data analytics for neutron scattering of self-assembled nanocrystal solids. Please share broadly!

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@KWhiteheadLab One of mine was engraved too. Someone stole it freshman year of high school. I used money earned at my after school job to replace it. Weeks later a "friend" who was just confirmed in his church "found" the lost one (engraving scratched out). Now I had two and was $125 poorer.

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

@JodieLutkenhaus I know that @emilykrucker is interested in problems like this. It would be interesting to learn what the important questions are.

[Paulo E. Arratia @ArratiaPaulo]

Checkout the newly redesigned Rheology Bulletin! You can see at https://t.co/ZeD1X6F1hP

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

Emily Krucker-Velasquez and I just published our first paper together on the structure of conc. electrolytes. Emily found that the ratio of steric stabilization length to Debye layer thickness controls underscreening. Also, like-charge clusters abound!

https://t.co/IZwf8tCd9R

[James Swan @Jim_Swan]

Very glad to see this paper on wormlike micelles and MAPS rheology with @garethmckinley and Kyle Lennon @doecsgf appear in @RheologicaActa. Kyle was able to use high data density rheology to learn something new about nonlinearities in a micellar solution.

https://t.co/1MYyfqjNgO

[ACS Central Science @ACSCentSci]

#ASAP by Ariel Furst @afurst1 & team @MITChemE FurstLab
@FurstLab

They report a unique biosensing strategy based on a mixture of engineered S. oneidensis & freeze-dried E. coli to simultaneously degrade and electrochemically detect toxic pesticides: https://t.co/MgSrAx73MA