Welcome to the Wagner Research Group Homepage!
Group Hike Spring 2023
Working From Home
Bingham Medal Society of Rheology, Philadelphia October 2014
Society of Rheology 2019
Brandywine Canoe Adventure 2019
Interested in Graduate Studies at UD in our group?
RAPID development of a local epidemiological population balance model informed by UAV and WVD data.
Go here: https://sites.udel.edu/udcovidmodel/
Books
Colloidal Suspension Rheology– companion study site with Q&A and updates to the book. Colloidal Suspension Rheology (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Colloidal Suspension Rheology (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
In the News
2023 Journal of Rheology Best Paper Award
Julie B. Hipp1, Jeffrey J. Richards2, and Norman J. Wagner1
1 University of Delaware, 2Northwestern University
Direct measurements of the microstructural origin of shear-thinning in carbon black suspensions
J. Rheol. 65145 (2021)
Scilight: https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0003503
Neutron Scattering Society of America awards Prof. Wagner the 2018 Sustained Research Prize at the American Conference on Neutron Scattering in College Park Md., July 2018
shown at SXSW 2017!
view the movie here:
Protective Materials for First Responders, Football Players, and Astronauts: Shear Thickening Fluids
Originally delivered Aug 30, 2017
2/21/2017 Prof. Wagner delivers American Chemical Society Webinar– Chemistry of Sports
Prof. Wagner delivers American Chemical Society Webinar– now online…
Future Protective Materials for First Responders, Football Players, and Astronauts: Shear Thickening Fluids – American Chemical Society American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.
Prof. Wagner explains Center for Neutron Science achievements to Senator Chris Coons at the NCNR
Prof. Wagner named as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 
Kate Gurnon’s dissertation is awarded UD’s 2015 Allan P. Colburn Prize for the Outstanding Dissertation in Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Kate Gurnon, NJW and Dongcui Li at 2014 doctoral graduation
What’s Hot
Our work on monoclonal antibodies with Genentech is in the news!
Working with Genentech and NIST, our work helps cancer treatment drugs get past their sticking point C&E News item BioPharma Reporter item
—
The schematic on the cover illustrates a shear-induced hexagonal close-packed crystal structure formed in concentrated Pluronic F127/ethylammonium nitrate solutions, along with small angle neutron scattering 2D patterns measured
perpendicular to the three planes of flow, adapted from Figure 11 of the paper by López-Barrón, Wagner, and Porcar ( Journal of Rheology 59(3) (2015) p. 793)