Oleg Gang explores the behavior of soft and biomolecular systems and develops novel nanomaterial fabrication strategies based on self-organization. His research interests cover nanoparticle assembly and functionality, polymers and biopolymers, hybrid systems built from bioderived and nanoscale components, liquids, and colloidal phenomena. To probe materials in relevant environments, in action and in 3D, Gang uses a broad range of methods, including synchrotron techniques and nanoscale imaging. Gang actively develops novel strategies for creating designed nanoscale architectures through programmable self-assembly, where biomolecules, polymers and external fields guide a system formation and transformation. The main objective of the research program is to enable autonomous material systems that exhibit designed spatial organization, pathway programmable behavior, and can be dynamically controlled. The developed methods are used to create new materials with targeted optical, mechanical and biomedical functions.
- Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard, 2009-2010
- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2021–
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016–2020
- Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2015–2016
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2010–2015
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- American Chemical Society
- NSF CAREER Award, 2013
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 2012
- Y. Dou, C.A. Cartier, W. Fei, S. Pandey, S. Razavi, I. Kretzschmar, K.J.M. Bishop, Directed motion of metallodielectric particles by contact charge electrophoresis. Langmuir 32, 13167−13173 (2016)
- M. Kowalik, K.J.M. Bishop, Ratcheted Electrophoresis of Brownian Particles. Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 203103 (2016)
- L. Cademartiri, K.J.M. Bishop, Programmable self-assembly. Nature Mater. 14, 2-9 (2015)
- S. Sabrina, M. Spellings, S.C. Glotzer, K.J.M. Bishop, Coarsening dynamics of binary liquids with active rotation. Soft Matter 11, 8409-8416 (2015)
- S.H.R. Shin, H.-Y. Lee, K.J.M. Bishop, Amphiphilic nanoparticles control the growth and stability of lipid bilayers with open edges. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54, 10816–10820 (2015)
- A.M. Drews, C.A. Cartier, K.J.M. Bishop, Contact Charge Electrophoresis: Experiment and Theory. Langmuir 31, 3808–3814 (2015)
- H.Y. Lee, S.H.R. Shin, A.M. Drews, A.M. Chirsan, S.A. Lewis, K.J.M. Bishop, Self-assembly of nanoparticle amphiphiles with adaptive surface chemistry. ACS Nano 8, 9979–9987 (2014)
- C.A. Cartier, A.M. Drews, K.J.M. Bishop, Microfluidic mixing of nonpolar liquids by contact charge electrophoresis. Lab Chip 14, 4230-4236 (2014)
- A.M. Drews, H.Y. Lee, K.J.M. Bishop, Ratcheted electrophoresis for rapid particle transport. Lab Chip 13, 4295-4298 (2013)
- M. Kowalik, C.M. Gothard, A.M. Drews, N.A. Gothard, B.A. Grzybowski, K.J.M. Bishop, Parallel optimization of synthetic pathways within the network of organic chemistry. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, 7928-7932 (2012)