Clarke Lab

Welcome to Clarke Lab

• Utilizing the photothermal effect of metal nanoparticles
  
  
• Motional dynamics revealed by dielectric spectroscopy
  
  
• Electrospinning: Fundamental understanding and novel approaches
  
  
• Observing effects of nanoscale confinement
  

• The Clarke Lab scientific investigations are innately interdisciplinary and often highly collaborative with other faculty in the Physics department, as well as with research groups in the NCSU departments of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Textile Engineering, Chemistry, and Science.

  

• The cover image for 07 November 2021 issue of Soft Matter is taken from a recent Clarke Lab paper (journal). [Click for larger version.]

  

• The cover image for the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 15 April 2016 issue is taken from a Clarke Lab paper (journal).
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  Dr. Clarke is a full professor in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University; She is also an associate member professor of the Textiles Engineering, Chemistry and Science Department, as well as affiliate faculty of the joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (UNC-CH and NCSU).