Professor David J. Pine

Phone: 805-893 7383, Fax: 805-893 4731

E-mail: pine@engineering.ucsb.edu

Soft Condensed Matter Experiment: Rheology and Structure of Complex Fluids; Light Scattering; Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy; Macroporous Materials; Photonic Crystals.

Professor Pine received a B.S. Degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Wheaton College in 1975 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University in 1978 and 1981. After two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh, he joined the faculty in the Physics Department at Haverford College. In 1990, he joined Exxon Corporate Research in New Jersey as a Staff Physicist where he remained until he joined the faculty at UCSB in 1995 as Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials. Professor Pine's research activities are concerned primarily with the structure and rheology of complex fluids and their use for fabricating new porous materials. As one of the developers of Diffusing-Wave Spectroscopy, he is also concerned with the use of multiple light scattering as a probe of the structure and dynamics of complex fluids. He is also been active in the development of rheo-optical probes of polymer and surfactant solutions, as well as colloidal suspensions and slurries.

Appointments, Honors, and Awards

• Visiting Scientist, Exxon Corporate Research (1987-88)
• Professuer Invité, University of Strasbourg (1997)
• Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997)

Some specific research projects and references

• A. Imhof and D.J. Pine, "Ordered Macroporous Materials by Emulsion Templating", Nature, 389, 948 (1997)
• P. Hebraud, F. Lequeux, J.P. Munch, and D.J. Pine, "Yielding and rearrangements in disordered emulsions", Physical Review Letters, 78, 4657 (1997)
• Y. Hu, P. Boltenhagen, and D.J. Pine, "Shear-thickening in low-concentration solutions of worm-like micelles I: Direct visualization of transient behavior and phase transitions", Journal of Rheology, 42, 1185 (1998)