Complex Fluids Group

Professor Rolando Castillo

	Address
	Institute of Physics. National University of Mexico Phone: + (52) (55) 562-25094 or 562-25080 Fax: + (52) (55) 561-61535 or 562-25008 P. O. Box 20- 364, Mexico D.F. 01000 E-mail:

Education

Bachelor in Chemistry. National University of Mexico. 1976.
Master in Science (Physics). National University of Mexico. 1981
Doctor in Science (Physics). National University of Mexico. 1986.

Position

Full time Researcher. Institute of Physics, UNAM.

Areas of interest

Molecular structure of simple liquids and of complex fluids (lyiotropic liquid crystals, microemulsions, colloids, confined fluids, monolayers, proteins)

Field of interest

Liquids and Complex fluids: monolayers, microemulsions, colloids, proteins, lyotropic liquid crystals.

Awards

Catedr�tico UNAM Level II (1998-2002)
"FERNANDO ALBA 2004" Medal for experimental physics development. Institute of Physics. UNAM. 2004.
DEVELOPMENT IN PHYSICS AWARD 2008. Mexican Physical Society. 2008.

Scientific papers

Distribution of cage size smooths the transition from diffusive to caging in microrheology

Synergistic effect of a fluorinated azobenzene for transforming spherical micelles into thread-like micelles with a disk-like cross-section

Micellar entanglement and its relation to the elastic behavior of wormlike micelle fluids

Measuring mesoscopic scales in complex fluids embedded with giant cylindrical micelles with diffusing wave spectroscopy microrheology. Review

Aqueous foams and emulsions stabilized by mixtures of silica nanoparticles and surfactants: A state-of-the-art. Review

Alignment of Worm-like micelles at intermediate and high shear rates

Mechanical properties of DPPC-POPE mixed Langmuir monolayers

Structural Changes in Worm-Like Micelles on the Incorporation of Small Photo-Switchable Molecules

Measurement of the force between uncharged colloidal particles trapped at a flat air/water interface

Structure, Rheology, and Microrheology of Wormlike Micelles Made of PB-PEO Diblock Copolymers

Bilayers of Janus and homogeneous particle mixtures trapped at an air/water interface

Tuning the Viscoelastic-Gel Transition of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in pH-Responsive Polyelectrolyte Solutions

Measuring Adhesion on Rough surfaces using Atomic Force Microscopy with a Liquid Probe

Label-free surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of lipid-rafts from hepatocyte plasma membranes

Force of adhesion on super-solvophobic surfaces: the role of capillary necks

Filamentous virus decoration with gold nanoparticles: Global fingerprints of bionanocomposites acquired with SERS

Absorption effects in Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy

Worm-like Micelles in Water Solutions of 1, 4 Poly (1, 3-butadiene) � Polyethylene Oxide Diblock Copolymer

Microenvironmentally controlled secondary structure motifs of apoliprotein A-1 derived peptides

The Mean-Square Displacement of particles in Slightly Interconnected Polymer Networks

Force of adhesion upon loss of the contact angle hysteresis: when a liquid behaves like a solid

Super-mercuryphobic and hydrophobic diamond surfaces with hierarchical structures: vanishment of the contact angle hysteresis with mercury

Molecular dynamics simulations of micelles: Coarse-grain for self-assembly and atomic resolution for finer details.

Rheology and DWS Microrheology of Concentrated Suspensions of the Semiflexible Filamentous fd-Virus

Characterization of Dynamics and Internal Structure of a Mixed-Surfactant Wormlike Micellar System Using NMR and Rheometry

Conformational and Disorder to Order Transitions in Proteins: Structure / Function Correlation in Apolipoproteins

The cis-bis(decanoate)tin phthalocyanine/DPPC film at the air/water interface

Thin Film Formation at the Air-Water Interface and on Solid Substrates of soluble axial substituted cis-bis-Decanoate Tin Phthalocyanine

A dynamical light scattering technique and its application in viscoelastic networks in soft matter

Review article: Microrheology of solutions embedded with thread-like supramolecular structures

Microrheology and Characteristic Lenghts in Wormlike Micelles made of a Switterionic Surfactant and SDS in Brine

The Wormlike Micellar Solution made of a Switterionic Surfactant (TDPS), an Anionic Surfactant (SDS), and Brine in the Semidilute Regime

Optical Trapping of Particles in the Air/Water Interface for Studies in Langmuir Monolayers

A Rheological Study in the Dilute Regime of the Worm Micelle Fluid Made of Switterionic Surfactant (TDPS), Anionic Surfactant (SDS) and Brine

Domain Growth, Pattern Formation, and Morphology Transitions in Langmuir Monolayers. A New Growth Instability

Disorder-to-order conformational transitions in protein structure and its relationship to disease

Flow Velocity Profiles and Shear Banding Onset in a Semidilute Wormlike Micellar System under Couette Flow

Forces between Hydrophilic Surfaces Adsorbed with Apolipoprotein AII Alpha Helices

Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy in Maxwellian Fluids.

Absolute values of transport mean free path of light in non-absorbing media using transmission and reflectance measurements.

Lipid Dependant Disorder-to-Order Conformational Transitions in Apolipoprotein CI Derived Peptides

Cyclodextrin based self-assembled nanotube at the water/air interface

Shear-Induced structures formed during thyxotropic loops in dilute worm-micelle solutions

Atomic Force Microscopy Images of Lyotropic Lamellar Phases,

Growth and morphology in Langmuir monolayers.

Pattern Formation and Morphology Evolution in Langmuir Monolayers

The dioctadecylamine monlayer. Non-equilibrium phase domains. Chapter 12. Current topics in Physics. In Honor of Prof. Sir Roger J. Elliott.

Interactions and conformations of α-helical human apolipoprotein CI on hydrophilic and on hydrophobic substrates.

In Search of New Structural States of Exchangeable Apolipoproteins

Micelles and reverse micelles in the nickel bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate / water /isooctane microemulsion.

Phase transitions of phospholipids monolayers penetrated with apolipoproteins.

Phase Transitions and Conformational Changes in Monolayers of Human Apolipoproteins CI and AII

The dioctadecylamine monolayer. Textures, phase transitions, and dendritic growth.

Monolayers of Apolipoprotein AII at the Air/Water interface.

Fraunhofer Diffraction in the Crystalline Phases of a Monolayer

A Survey of the Phases and the Metastable phases in the Ternary Systems divalent metal: 2-bis [2-ethylhexyl]sulfosuccinate/Isooctane water

Localized Oscillations and Fraunhofer diffraction in Crystalline Phases of a Monolayer.

Monolayers of Apolipoproteins at the air/water Interface.

A Dynamic Light Scattering Investigation of the Nucleation and Growth of Thaumatin Crystals.

Phase Transitions in Monolayers of Human Apolipoprotein C1

Light Scattering in Living poly-a-methylstyrene near the polymerization Line.

Langmuir Monolayers of C17, C19 and C21 fatty acids. Textures, phase transitions, and localized oscillations

Diseño y Construcción de un Equipo para Desarrollar Medidas de Dispersión de Luz en Líquidos

The Role of Boron Nitride in Graphite Plasma Arcs.

The Mutual Diffusion Coefficient of the Methanol- n-Hexane Mixture around the Coexistence Line.

Brewster Angle Microscopy of Fullerene Monolayers

The Effect Of Alcohols In Reverse Micelles of Aerosol-OT. Light Scattering and Heat Capacity Measurements

The Thermal Diffusion Factor for the van der Waals Binary Mixture

Metal Particle Catalysed Production of Nonoscale BN Structures

Direct Observation of C60 and C70 Using Brewster Angle Microscopy.

Mutual Diffusion Coefficient of Alkaline-Earth and Third Family Metal Chlorides In Aqueous Solutions

Langmuir Films of Calix[8]arene/fullerene Complexes

Langmuir Films of Mixtures of C70 and Arachidic Acid

The Effect of Traces of Hexyloxyethoxyethanol in the Phase Diagram of 2Butoxyethanol + Water System

High Resolution Electron Microscopy Studies In Carbon Soots.

Brownian Motion At Molecular Level In Liquid Solutions of C60.

The Mutual Diffusion Coefficients For The van der Waals Binary Mixture of Types II, III, IV, and V.

Temperature Dependence of The Mutual Diffusion Coefficient in Aqueous Solutions of Alkali-Metal Chlorides.

The Mutual Diffusion Coefficients for the van der Waals Binary Mixture of Type I.

Free Energy and Transport Properties of The Gaussian Overlap Model.

Prediction of Transport Properties of Dense Molecular Fluids Using The Effective Diameter Hard-Sphere Theory. Perturbation Method.

Mutual Diffusion Coefficients In The Water-Rich Region Of Water-Phenol Mixtures and Their Relation to Aggregate Formation.

Transport Properties in Dense Fluids and Their Binary Mixtures.

Prediction Of Transport Properties For Lennard-Jones Fluids And Their Binary Mixtures Using The Effective-Diameter Hard-Sphere KineticTheory.

Determination of Mutual diffusion Coefficients of the 2-Butoxyethanol-Water System in the Water-Rich Range Using the Taylor Dispersion Technique.

The Thermal Conductivity of Dense Fluids and Their Mixtures Using the Effective Diameter Revised Enskog Theory.

The Thermal Conductivity of Dense fluids Using Revised Enskog Theory.

Mutual Diffusion Coefficient Determination Using The Taylor Dispersion Technique. in: A.E. Gonzalez et al (Eds). Lectures on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. XVIII Winter Meeting on Statistical Physics. Oaxtepec, Mexico.

Linearized Kinetic Variational Theory (KVT II) and Short Time Kinetic Theory.

Global Behavior of The Diffusion Coefficient for the van der Waals Binary Mixture.

Correlation Method for the Shear Viscosity of Fluid Mixtures at Moderate Densities.

Equilibrium Distribution of the Kinetic Variational Theory II ( KVT II ).

The Bulk Viscosity in dense Fluids.

Carbon Isotopic Analysis in México: A Progress Report on Some Mexican Ore Deposits and Metamorphic Rocks.

Trasport Coefficients from Kinetic Theory.

Transport Coefficients of Fluid Mixtures.

El Oxigeno-18 en las Aguas Meteóricas de México.

A Survey of Groundwater flow Using Deuterium and Oxygen-18 as Tracers in the Samalayuca Dunes Northern Mexico.

Use of Deuterium and Oxygen-18 in Hydrological Problems at Delicias Valley, Chihuahua Mexico.

A Deuterium and Oxygen-18 Study at Villa de Reyes, SLP.Mexico.

Molecular Orbital Theory Prediction of Primary Fragmentation Sites in Tetracyclic Diterpenoids.