Dr. Srinivasarao specializes in physical chemistry of polymers, optics and physics of nematic liquid crystals, rheology and rheo-optics of polymeric fluids and liquid crystals, polymer / liquid crystal dispersions, various forms of light microscopy including confocal microscopy and photon tunneling microscopy, color science, and nano-optics in the biological world (color of butterfly wings, beetles, moths, and bird feathers).

The present group, consists of Dr. Jung O Park, one Post-Doc, four graduate students and two undergraduate student working on diverse areas. Matija Crne is working on optimizing the spinning of PMMA stereocomplex fibers to make self reinforced composites. Vivek Sharma imaged chaotic mixing of microdroplets, studied dynamics of rods and spheres to explain their shape separation during centrifugation and is now working on elucidating the mechanism of breath-figure templated assembly of bubbles in polymer films. Min Su and Xuxia have joined the group recently. The details of these topics is described in the links below.

Recent graduates (Georgia Tech): Dr. Jian Zhou studied anchoring transitions in PDLCs (Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals), Dr. Lulu Song studied ordered arrays of bubbles in polymer films, Dr. J. S. Park synthesized supramolecular structures (rotaxanes and pseudo-rotaxanes) and studied their optical properties, Dr. Kyoungweon Park turned gold into nanorods, studied the mechanism of their growth, their optical properties and made liquid crystalline assemblies out of them and Haixia photopolymerized PDCLCs (polymer dispersed chiral liquid crystals), and studied their anchoring transitions for her MS degree.