Kathleen Stebe
Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)
Honors and Awards: Fellow - Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Harvard University - 2002, Robert S. Pond Sr. Excellence in Teaching Award - Whiting School of Engineering - Johns Hopkins University - 1993, American Physical Society Francois N. Frenkiel Award for Significant Contributions in Fluid Mechanics by Young Investigators - 1992, Stanley Katz Memorial Award for Excellence in Research - Department of Chemical Engineering - City University of New York - 1989
Research Expertise: Nanostructured Materials | Surface and Colloidal Science
Kate's primary research interests are in non-equilibrium interfaces, with applications ranging from microfluidics to nanotechnology. One aspect of her research program focuses on interfaces between fluids and how surfactants can be used to influence interfacial flows. Other aspects address tailoring of solid-liquid interfaces with applications ranging from patterned electrodeposition to capillary-driven assembly and ordering of nanomaterials.
Member of:- Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
- Center for Engineering Cells and Regeneration (CECR)
- Penn Center for Energy Innovation
Education:
PhD Chemical Engineering 1989 - The City University of New York
MSE Chemical Engineering 1989 - The City University of New York
BA Economics 1984 - The City College of New York
Recent Publications 
- Near field capillary repulsion, Yao, L. | Botto, L. | Cavallaro Jr., M. | Bleier, B.J. | Garbin, V. | Stebe, K.J., Soft Matter, 2013
- Microbullet assembly: Interactions of oriented dipoles in confined nematic liquid crystal, Gharbi, M.A. | Cavallaro Jr., M. | Wu, G. | Beller, D.A. | Kamien, R.D. | Yang, S. | Stebe, K.J., Liquid Crystals, 2013
- Topographically induced hierarchical assembly and geometrical transformation of focal conic domain arrays in smectic liquid crystals, Honglawan, A. | Beller, D.A. | Cavallaro Jr., M. | Kamien, R.D. | Stebe, K.J. | Yang, S., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013
- Nanoparticles at fluid interfaces: Exploiting capping ligands to control adsorption, stability and dynamics, Garbin, V. | Crocker, J.C. | Stebe, K.J., Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2012
- Selectin-mediated adhesion in shear flow using micropatterned substrates: Multiple-bond interactions govern the critical length for cell binding, Tong, Z. | Cheung, L.S.-L. | Stebe, K.J. | Konstantopoulos, K., Integrative Biology (United Kingdom), 2012