Title: Colloidal Particles at the Interface: What is the origin of the long-range interaction force between the interfacial particles?

Speaker: To Ngai, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Time: 9:00 a.m., November 1, 2013

Venue: Conference Room 205, Building 14, SCUT North Campus

Sponsor: School of Materials Science and Engineering

Introduction to Professor To Ngai:

Dr. Ngai received his B.S. in chemistry at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999. In 2003, he obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry in the same university under the supervision of Professor Chi Wu. He moved to BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and worked as the postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Helmut Auweter and Dr. Sven-Holger Behrens’s research group from 2003 to 2005. In July 2005, he went to Professor Timothy P Lodge’s group in the Chemistry Department of the University of Minnesota, working on polymer blending. He joined the Chemistry Department at CUHK in 2006 as a research assistant professor and worked on colloidal interactions using his newly established single-particle force measurement technique for two years. He has been appointed as an assistant professor in 2008, and since 2012, he has been promoted to associate professor in the Chemistry Department. His research currently focuses on the chemistry and physics of interfaces.