Microrheology of structured fluids
Material synthesis by interfacial crystallization
Surfactant self-assembly kinetics
Crystallization in nanostructured fluids
Cubosomes: soft nanoparticles
Aerosol nanoparticle synthesis
Colloidal aggregate dynamics
Population balance modeling
Nov 09 Vibrational Effects On Particle Sedimentation in Complex Fluids AIChE Annual Meeting 2009
Oct 09 Vibrational Sedimentation in Yield Stress Fluids Society of Rheology Annual Meeting 2009
Oct 09 Soft Matter Physics: Surfactants Georgetown University
July 09 Heterogeneous Complex Fluids aren't all bad: Association in Solution II
Oct 08 Microstructural Heterogeneity and Large-Scale Soft Matter Manufacturing: Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop
Aug 08 Mixing, Microrheology, and Microstructural Heterogeneity: ISMIP6
Aug 08 Surfactant rheology short course: ICR2008
May 08 Sustainable Complex Fluid Processing: Cornell Center for Materials Research
Feb 08 Perspectives on liquid heterogeneity: Frontiers of Microrheology
2005 Detergency movies on CD included with Gouttes, bulles, perles et ondes
2005 Bicontinuous liquid crystals
Savage, J. R., Caggioni, M., Spicer, P. T., Cohen, I., "Partial Universality: Pinch-Off Dynamics in Fluids with Smectic Liquid Crystalline Order.," Soft Matter (2010). pdf
Wilkins, G. M. H., Spicer, P. T., Solomon, M. J., "Colloidal System to Explore Structural and Dynamical Transitions in Rod Networks, Gels, and Glasses," Langmuir, 25, 8951–59 (2009). pdf
Savin, T., Spicer, P. T., Doyle, P. S., "A Rational Approach to Noise Discrimination in Video Microscopy Particle Tracking," Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 024102 (2008). pdf
Shen, A. Q., Wang, D., Spicer, P. T., "Kinetics of Colloidal Templating Using Emulsion Drop Consolidation," Langmuir, 23, 12821-26 (2007). pdf
Caggioni, M., Spicer, P., Blair, D., Lindberg, S., Weitz, D., "Rheology and Microrheology of a Microstructured Fluid: The Gellan Gum Case," J. Rheology, 55, 851-65 (2007). pdf
Steinhaus, B., Spicer, P. T., Shen, A. Q., "Droplet Size Effects on Film Drainage between Droplet and Substrate," Langmuir, 22, 5308-13 (2006). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Hartel, R. W., "Crystal Comets: Dewetting During Emulsion Droplet Crystallization," Aust. J. Chem., 58, 655-59 (2005). pdf
Spicer, P., "Cubosome Processing: Industrial Nanoparticle Technology Development," Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 83, 1283-86 (2005). pdf
Spicer, P., "Progress in Liquid Crystalline Dispersions: Cubosomes," Curr. Opin. Colloid Int. Sci., 10, 274-79 (2005). pdf
Spicer, P. T., "Cubosomes: Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Nanostructured Particles," in J.A. Schwarz, C. Contescu, K. Putyera (Eds.), Marcel Dekker Encycclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Marcel Dekker, New York, 2003, p. 881-92. pdf
Spicer, P. T., Lynch, M. L., Visscher, M., Hoath, S., "Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phase and Cubosome Personal Care Delivery Systems," in M. Rosen (Ed.), Personal Care Delivery Systems and Formulations. Noyes Publishing, 2003. pdf
Spicer, P. T., "Cubosome Formation via Dilution - Kinetic Effects and Consumer Product Implications," in F. Case, P. Alexandridis (Eds.), Mesoscale Phenomena in Liquid Systems. ACS, 2003, p. 346-59. pdf
Lynch, M. L., Ofori-Boateng, A., Hippe, A., Kochvar, K., Spicer, P. T., "Enhanced Loading of Water-Soluble Actives into Bicontinuous Cubic Phase Liquid Crystals Using Cationic Surfactants," J. Colloid Interface Sci., 260, 404–13 (2003). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Small, W. B., Lynch, M. L., Burns, J. L., "Dry Powder Precursors of 'Soft' Cubic Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles (Cubosomes)," J. Nanopart. Res., 4, 297-311 (2002). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Chaoul, O., Tsantilis, S., Pratsinis, S. E., "Titania Formation by TiCl4 Gas Phase Oxidation, Surface Growth and Coagulation," J. Aerosol Sci., 33, 17-34 (2002). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Hayden, K. L., Lynch, M. L., Ofori-Boateng, A., Burns, J. L., "Novel Process for Producing Cubic Liquid Crystalline Nanoparticles (Cubosomes)," Langmuir, 17, 5748-56 (2001). pdf
Flesch, J. C., Spicer, P. T., Pratsinis, S. E., "Laminar and Turbulent Shear-Induced Flocculation of Fractal Aggregates," AIChE J., 45, 1114-24 (1999). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Pratsinis, S. E., Willemse, A. W., Merkus, H. G., Scarlett, B., "Monitoring the Dynamics of Concentrated Suspensions by Enhanced Backward Light Scattering," Part. Part. Syst. Charact., 16, 201-06 (1999). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Artelt, C., Sanders, S., Pratsinis, S. E., "Flame Synthesis of Composite Carbon Black-Fumed Silica Nanostructured Particles," J. Aerosol Sci., 29, 647-59 (1998). pdf
Pratsinis, S. E., Spicer, P. T., "Competition between Gas Phase and Surface Oxidation of TiCl4 During Synthesis of Tio2 Particles," Chem. Eng. Sci., 53, 1861-68 (1998). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Pratsinis, S. E., Raper, J., Amal, R., Bushell, G., Meesters, G., "Effect of Shear Schedule on Particle Size, Density, and Structure During Flocculation in Stirred Tanks," Powder Tech., 97, 26-34 (1998). pdf
Shear-Induced Aggregation-Fragmentation: Mixing and Aggregate Morphology Effects, Ph.D. Thesis (1997). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Keller, W., Pratsinis, S. E., "The Effect of Impeller Type on Floc Size and Structure During Shear-Induced Flocculation," J. Colloid Interface Sci., 184, 112-22 (1996). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Pratsinis, S. E., Trennepohl, M. D., Meesters, G. H. M., "Coagulation and Fragmentation: The Variation of Shear Rate and the Time Lag for Attainment of Steady State," Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 35, 3074-80 (1996). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Pratsinis, S. E., "Coagulation and Fragmentation: Universal Steady-State Particle-Size Distribution," AIChE J., 42, 1612-20 (1996). pdf
Spicer, P. T., Pratsinis, S. E., "Shear-Induced Flocculation: The Evolution of Floc Structure and the Shape of the Size Distribution at Steady State," Water Res., 30, 1049-56 (1996). pdf
Pat Spicer received his doctorate in 1997 from the Particle Technology Group at the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemical Engineering; there his research focused on design and synthesis of colloidal and nanoparticle materials. After completing his thesis he went to work for the Procter and Gamble Company, leading their Crystallization group in the Corporate Engineering Division. In 2006 he formed the Microstructures group whose focus is to create, characterize, and model structured fluids for P&G. He also actively works with academia to connect fundamental science and technology developments with applied problems in industry.
Pat's H-index: 13
As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would not expect otherwise.
Richard P. Feynman
May 30, 1949