Michael A. Bevan

Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Office: 335D Zachary Building
E-mail: mabevan@tamu.edu
Phone: 979.847.8766
Fax: 979.845.6446

Departmental website

Research highlights

WORK EXPERIENCE
• Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, August 2002-Present
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
• Beckman Fellow, September 2001-August 2002
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, IL
• Research Fellow, August 1999-August 2001
Particulate Fluid Processing Centre, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
• Graduate Research Assistant, September 1994-July 1999
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
• ACS POLYED Undergraduate Research Program, May 1993-August 1994
Rohm & Haas Company, Springhouse, PA and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. "Solvent Quality Dependent Continuum van der Waals Attraction and Phase Behavior
for Colloids Bearing Nonuniform Adsorbed Polymer Layers", Bevan, M.A.; Petris, S.N.; Chan, D.Y.C. Langmuir Vol. 18, No. 21, 7845-7852, 2002.
2. "Effect of Physisorbed Polymers on the Interaction of Latex Particles And Their Dispersion Stability", Bevan, M.A.; Prieve, D.C. Polymers in Particulate Systems: Properties and Applications, Surfactant Science Series, Vol. 104, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001.
3. "Forces and Hydrodynamic Interactions between Polystyrene Surfaces with Adsorbed PEO-PPO-PEO", Bevan, M.A.; Prieve, D.C. Langmuir Vol. 16, No. 24, pgs. 9274-9281, 2000.
4. "Aggregation Dynamics for Two Particles during Electrophoretic Deposition under
Steady Fields", Guelcher, S.; Bevan, M.A.; Solomentsev, Y.; Anderson, J.L. Langmuir Vol. 16, No. 24, pgs. 9208-9216, 2000.
5. "Hindered Diffusion of Colloidal Particles Very Near to a Wall: Revisited", Bevan, M.A.; Prieve, D.C. J. Chem. Phys. Vol. 113, No. 3, pgs. 1228-1236, 2000.12.
6. "Direct Measurement of Retarded van der Waals Attraction" (Cover Story), Bevan, M.A.; Prieve, D.C. Langmuir Vol. 15, No. 23, pgs. 7925-7936, 1999.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Total Internal Reflection Microscopy based measurements of particle-particle and particle-wall interactions

• Confocal Scanning Laser Microscopy measurements of concentrated colloidal phase behavior at interfaces

• light and x-ray scattering studies of bulk colloidal interactions, structure, dynamics, and phase behavior

• rheological measurements of mixed colloidal and polymeric systems undergoing thermodynamic phase transitions

• microscopy measurements monitoring thermodynamic structure formation and interactions for colloidal deposition on chemically and physically templated surfaces

• microscopy measurements probing particle-particle and particle-wall interactions in the presence of various applied fields

• measurement of interactions in binary systems and mixed colloidal/polymeric systems;
role of specific ion effects for polymeric dispersion forces

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999

• B.S. Chemical Engineering (high honors), Lehigh University, 1994

• B.S. Chemistry (high honors), Lehigh University, 1994