COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Jan. 15, 2009 - Zhengdong Cheng, assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, recently presented his research at the 17th International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Material, held in New Delhi, India.

An authority in the area of complex fluids, Cheng, was invited to speak about "Cell Encapsule and Novel Particle Fabrication via Microfluidics and Electrospray."

When in India, Cheng also visited students from the Indian Institutes of Technology as well as universities and institutions who had expressed interest in Texas A&M's graduate programs in chemical engineering and materials science.

At Texas A&M, Cheng's research focuses on the self-organization of intelligent colloids and anisotropic particles, the fabrication of photonic crystals and integrated photonic circuits, and the application of microfluidics to bio-encapsulation. Techniques developed by his research group are applicable to the modeling of phase transitions and liquid crystal materials, the engineering of nano-composites and semiconductor of light, and a wide range of therapeutic treatments.

The purpose of this international symposium was to convene state-of-the-art developments on all aspects related to the processing and fabrication of advanced materials. The symposium provided an opportunity for presenting the latest advances in materials processing and fabrication by researchers, scientists and engineers from industry, research laboratories and academia.

For more information on the 17th International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Material, visit http://www.pfam17.org/