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.

The research of graduate students Hanna Hlushko and Adwait Gaikwad was featured on the Texas A&M Engineering news website! The news article, titled “Nanofibers linked to a red wine chemical create superior antioxidant materials”, discusses their recent publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Read the news article here.

Congratulations to Parvin Karimineghlani for successfully defending her dissertation! Dr. Karimineghlani earned her degree based on her work on “Thermoresponsive Polymer Networks in an Inorganic Ionic Liquid Phase Change Material”.

Congratulations to Adwait, Hanna, Parvin, and Victor on their new publication! The current and former students’ research has been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. The article titled “Hydrogen-Bonded, Mechanically Strong Nanofibers with Tunable Antioxidant Activity” is now available to read online.

PhD student Raman Hlushko’s research has been accepted for publication in Macromolecules. The article titled “Layer-by-Layer Hydrogen-Bonded Antioxidant Films of Linear Synthetic Polyphenols” is now available online.

The research of PhD student Qing Zhou has been recognized by the U.S. Army as one of the top science and technology advances of 2019. His research on self-healing polymers placed second in the video shown below, posted by the U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory.

The full list has been shared across multiple news sites, such as Business Insider and the U.S. Army’s official site.