Developing High Performance Sunscreen Products without PEG-based Surfactants

Biocompatible fluorinated polyglycerols for droplet microfluidics as an alternative to PEG-based copolymer surfactants.

In droplet-based microfluidics, non-ionic, high-molecular weight surfactants are required to stabilize droplet interfaces. One of the most common structures that imparts stability as well as biocompatibility to water-in-oil droplets is a triblock copolymer surfactant composed of perfluoropolyether (PFPE) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) blocks. However, the fast growing applications of microdrople...

Developing High-Performance Multimedia Applications

High-Performance Computing without commitment

Computational work is a vital part of much scientific research. In materials science research in particular, theoretical models are usually needed to understand measurements. There is currently a double barrier that keeps a broad class of researchers from using state-of-the-art materials science codes: the software typically lacks user-friendliness, and the hardware requirements can demand a si...

Sunscreen Products as Emerging Pollutants to Coastal Waters

A growing awareness of the risks associated with skin exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation over the past decades has led to increased use of sunscreen cosmetic products leading the introduction of new chemical compounds in the marine environment. Although coastal tourism and recreation are the largest and most rapidly growing activities in the world, the evaluation of sunscreen as source of c...

High-Performance Tensor Contraction without Transposition

Tensor computations–in particular tensor contraction (TC)–are important kernels in many scientific computing applications (SCAs). Due to the fundamental similarity of TC to matrix multiplication (MM) and to the availability of optimized implementations such as the BLAS, tensor operations have traditionally been implemented in terms of BLAS operations, incurring both a performance and a storage ...