March 26, 2023
Sabrina & Denghao made the inaugural trip for the team to the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National lab.
January 31, 2023
Undergraduate researcher Emily England has been named an MSU Nominee for the Goldwater Scholarship - more details on her nomination here. Congrats Emily!
October 29, 2022
Congratulations to Denghao for winning a poster award at the ACS Mid-Michigan Fall Meeting! (Poster title: Improvement of Methacrylate-Based Polymer Networks by Introduction of Catechol Moieties)
July 27, 2022
We welcomed Karolina to the lab for the summer as part of the EnSURE program. Karolina is a Chemical Engineering student at the University of Puerto Rico and worked on visualizing swelling and associated instabilities of hydrogel systems.
May 19, 2022
Collaborators Shih-Yuan & Kelsey visited from Northwestern to work on our hybrid gel project. Shih-Yuan gave a fantastic seminar on micro-rollers as part of the visit!
April 14, 2022
Graduate students Allie, Denghao and Sabrina presented at the College of Engineering Graduate Research Symposium. Everyone did a great job and congratulations to Sabrina on their best poster award!
April 8, 2022
Undergraduate researchers Justin, Allison, and Emily presented at the University Undergraduate Research & Arts Forum (UURAF). Congratulations to everyone for great presentations and for Allison on her first place award!
June 26, 2020
We have recently been funded from the NIH - see a writeup about this award from the College of Engineering here!
December 4, 2019
The lab’s first piece of equipment is up and running in the lab - a goniometer for surface analysis!
October 19, 2019
Three new students have joined the group this fall! Welcome Denghao, Gabe & Sabrina! Denghao & Sabrina are both graduate students in Materials Science & Engineering, and Gabe is an undergraduate in Chemical Engineering.