Qing and Zhen’s recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials is receiving a lot of well-deserved attention!

In addition to the articles on the U.S. Army and TAMU Engineering sites, the research was recently featured in an article on Futurity, titled “Reversible ‘stitches’ give self-healing polymers new powers”. 

Additionally, the accompanying YouTube video (see article or previous post) received over 6,000 views! Congratulations to all involved.

Qing and Zhen’s research was recently featured on the U.S. Army website! The news article, titled “Army researchers explore self-healing materials”, discusses their recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials.

This research was also recently featured on the Texas A&M engineering news website.

The research of Ph.D. students Qing Zhou and Zhen Sang was featured on the Texas A&M Engineering news website! The news article, titled “Versatile new material family could build realistic prosthetics, futuristic Army platforms”, discusses their recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials.

Read the news article here.

Congratulations to both Parvin Karimineghlani, Ph.D. and Yashaswini Karanth, M.S. for their successful defenses and graduations. We wish them all the best in future endeavors!

Parvin Karimineghlani’s research has been published in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The article, titled “Solvation and diffusion of poly(vinyl alcohol) chains in a hydrated inorganic ionic liquid“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Parvin!

 

Jordan Brito and Zhen Sang received clean passes on their Ph.D. qualifying exams!

PhD student Qing Zhou’s research has been accepted for publication in Advanced Functional Materials. The article, titled “A Tailorable Family of Elastomeric‐to‐Rigid, 3D Printable, Interbonding Polymer Networks“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Qing!

The research of Hanna, Adwait, Parvin, and Victor is featured on the Anthropocene Magazine website and social media! The news article, titled “Antioxidants from red wine could help cut food waste”, discusses their recent publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

The research of Hanna, Adwait, Parvin, and Victor is currently featured on the NSF homepage and at the top of the NSF newsletter! The news article, titled “Nanofibers linked to a red wine chemical could help prevent oxidation”, discusses their recent publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

This research was also recently featured on the Texas A&M engineering news website and has been shared by 9 other news sites.

Congratulations to PhD students Qing Zhou and Zhen Sang for winning 2020 MSEN awards!

Qing won the Best Paper (Graduate) Award for his recently accepted publication in Advanced Functional Materials. Earlier this year, Qing’s research also ranked second in the U.S. Army’s “Top Ten Science & Technology Advances of 2019”.

Zhen won the Outstanding Teacher Award for his development and guidance of the undergraduate unified materials lab, MSEN 301. His dedication to the course, which taught materials synthesis,  structural characterization, and property evaluation, was evident.