PhD student Diana Al Husseini’s research was recently accepted to Coatings! The article, titled “Surface Functionalization Utilizing Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Evanescent-Field Mid-Infrared Waveguide Gas Sensing“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Diana!

PhD student Aliaksei Aliakseyeu’s research was recently accepted to Soft Matter! The article, titled “Selective Hydrogen Bonding Controls Temperature Response of Layer-by-Layer Upper Critical Solution Temperature Micellar Assemblies“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Alex!

Victoria Albright’s research was recently published in Biomaterials! The article, titled “Polyphosphazenes Enable Durable, Hemocompatible, Highly Efficient Antibacterial Coatings“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Victoria!

Diana Al Husseini’s research has been published in Chemical Communications. The article, titled “All-Nanoparticle Layer-by-layer Coatings for Mid-IR On-Chip Gas Sensing“, is now available to read online. Congratulations, Diana!

Qing and Zhen’s recent publication in Advanced Functional Materials is featured in another popular news site, The Economist!

Read the article published on the Economist here.

Congratulations to Hanna Hlushko for successfully defending her dissertation! Dr. Hlushko earned her degree based on her work on “Synthetic Polymeric Antioxidants: Redox Properties, Metal Binding, and Anticorrosion Performance”.

PhD student Aliaksei Aliakseyeu was selected as an MSEN Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC) representative! The MSEN graduate student body elected him to help unify the MSEN student body and share feedback to department leadership. Congratulations, Alex!

Qing and Zhen’s research was featured on MSN! The video, titled “US Army developing self-healing material for ‘Terminator-style’ machines”, can be seen here.