Sylvio May

Professor and Chair

Faculty

Physics

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Areas of Study & Research

  • Thermodynamics of lipid membranes and interactions with biopolymers
  • Nanoparticles at dielectric interfaces
  • Theory of ionic interactions in soft matter systems and ionic liquids
  • Modeling the kinetics of liposomal drug delivery

Courses Taught

Introductory Level: Introductory Astronomy, Fundamentals of Physics, College Physics I, College Physics II

Upper Level: Classical Mechanics, Heat and Thermodynamics

Graduate Level: Soft Condensed Matter, Electromagnetism, Classical Mechanics, Mathematical Methods in Physics

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany (1996), Thesis: Elastic properties of mixed and charged amphiphilic membranes

Publications

Faruk Hossain, Guilherme Volpe Bossa and Sylvio May, Collision-mediated transfer kinetics of cargo among mobile nanocarriers, Phys Rev E 111 L042102 2025 link to paper

Guilherme Volpe Bossa, Braden Ehlert and Sylvio May, Continuum electrostatics with capped Coulomb potential, EPL 149 2025 67001 link to paper

Guilherme Volpe Bossa and Sylvio May, Incorporation of charge discreteness and ion correlations into lattice models of ionic liquids, Front Chem 12 1502840 2024 link to paper

Guilherme Volpe Bossa, Erik Hobbie and Sylvio May, Counterion Release from Macroion Assemblies of Planar Geometry, J Phys Chem B 128 28 6966-6974 2024 link to paper

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