Prof. Archer’s research focuses on structure, dynamics, and transport phenomena at liquid solid interfaces. This interest ranges from fundamental science studies of how condensed liquid phases (polymers, particles, ions) move and partition near interfaces, to applications-motivated studies centered on understanding how molecular scale fluid motions at interfaces influence behaviors on macroscopic length scales. In one class of problems Archer and his students investigate how and why motions of polymers at interfaces impact the classical no-slip hydrodynamic boundary condition taken for granted in analyzing all liquid flows. Extensions of these ideas to the design of novel self-suspended inorganic-organic hybrid materials, which allow interfacial polymer phase behavior to be isolated and studied from bulk experiments is an area of significant ongoing work. Applications of these concepts to create electrolytes and artificial solid electrolyte interphases able to regulate chemical, morphological, and hydrodynamic stability at interphases in electrochemical cells has likewise emerged as fruitful area of study in the Archer group.