Erick Sarmiento

Address
  • Institute of Physics. National University of Mexico
  • PO. Box. 20-364 01000,Mexico DF
  • Phone: + (52) (55) 562-25080
  • Fax: + (52) (55) 561-61535 or 562-25008
  • E-mail:

Education

  • Bachelor degree (Physics). School of Physics and Mathematics Faculty. Autonomous University of Puebla BUAP). 2006
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Science (Physics). Physics Institute. National University of Mexico. UNAM

Languages

  • Native Language: Spanish
  • English fluent

Areas of interest

  • Rheological properties of worm-micelle solutions and semiflexible biopolymers
  • Light propagation in colloidal suspensions
  • Microrheological tecniques in complex fluids

Techniques

  • Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) and Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS)
  • DWS and multi-speckle based microrheology
  • Mechanical rheometry
  • Confocal microscopy

Presentations

  • -XLVIII Congreso Nacional de Física, poster: “Caracterización óptica en l=632.8 nm de la pantalla de cristal líquido modelo LC2002”. Guadalajara, Jalisco, October 2005.
  • -XLVIII Congreso Nacional de Física, poster: “Destrucción de coherencia espacial por medio de una pantalla de cristal líquido controlada por computadora”. Guadalajara, Jalisco, October 2005.
  • -XXI Encuentro de Ciencia y Tecnología de Fluidos Complejos, poster: “Micro-rheology of complex fluids”. Institute of Physics, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, August 2008
  • -XXXVIII Winter Meeting, poster: “DWS-based micro-rheology in complex fluids”. Taxco, Guerrero, México, January 2009
  • -Gordon Research Conferences of Chemistry and Physics of Liquids, poster: “Rheology and microrheology of worm-micelle solutions made of mixtures of zwitterionic and anionic surfactants”. Holderness School New Hampshire EUA, August 2009.
  • -Gordon Research Conferences of Chemistry and Physics of Liquids, poster: “Shear induced structures in dilute worm-micelle solutions made of mixtures of zwitterionic and anionic surfactants”. Holderness School New Hampshire EUA, August 2009.
  • -Segundas Jornadas de Instrumentación en la UNAM, oral presentation: “Microreología de Fluidos Complejos”. UNAM, August 2009.
  • -XV Congreso de la División de la Dinámica de Fluidos, oral presentation: “Microreología en micelas tubulares flexibles usando espectroscopía de onda difusa (DWS)”. Acapulco Guerrero, Mexico, October 2009.
  • -XXXIV Winter Meeting, poster: “Rheology and microrheology of worm-micelle solutions made of mixtures of zwitterionic and anionic surfactants”. Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, January 2010.

Publications

1] David Lopez-Diaz, Erick Sarmiento-Gomez, Cristina Garza, Rolando Castillo
A Rheological Study in the Dilute Regime of the Worm Micelle Fluid Made of Switterionic Surfactant (TDPS), Anionic Surfactant (SDS) and Brine
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 348 (2010) 152-158

2] Erick Sarmiento-Gómez, David Lopez-Diaz, and Rolando Castillo
Microrheology and Characteristic Lengths in Wormlike Micelles made of a zwitterionic surfactant and SDS in brine
J. Phys. Chem. B. 20102 114, 12193-12202