Title: Designing Robust Liquid and Solid Repellent Surfaces

Chair: Anish Tuteja

Title: Inverse Materials Design Employing Self-Folding and Extended Ensembles

Chair: Sharon Glotzer

In a paper recently published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, the Tuteja lab reports on recent findings on omniphobic coatings that could be applied on a variety of surfaces to repel almost any liquid.

Nick Kotov is one of members of the 2018 class of the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, awarded by the Department of Defense.

Carlos Aguilar is one of the recipients of the 2018 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Awards. Awarded by 3M Corporation, this award recognizes junior faculty who demonstrate outstanding research, experience, teaching and academic leadership.

A collaborative project from the Lahann, Luker and Krebsbach labs reports on new jet writing technique for printing 3D structures for biomedical applications.

The article entitled “3D Jet Writing: Functional Microtissues Based on Tessellated Scaffold Architectures” appears in Advanced Materials.

The research article was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine and entitled “Tibial Nerve Stimulation to Drive Genital Sexual Arousal in an Anesthetized Female Rat”.

Lauren Zimmerman, a graduate student in Tim Bruns’ lab, wins the NIH F31 Fellowship from the NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Nick Kotov’s work on biomimetic composites is recognized by the Mobile World Scholar Challenge

Patricia Schnepp, PhD and Vishwanath Sankarasubramanian, PhD receive Postdoctoral Translational Scholars Program (PTSP) Awards from MICHR.

The article entitled “Chiromagnetic Nanoparticles and Gels” appeared in the January 19 issue of Science.

We are pleased to announce our selection for the Diabetes and Its Complications Challenge seed fund competition.

Carlos Aguilar, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and his research group recently joined BI. The Nano-Omic-Bio-Engineering Lab (NOBEL) is working on developing new approaches and tools to understand and investigate skeletal muscles.

Research in the Kotov group demonstrated the self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles into nanoshells, which can potentially be used for gene delivery applications. More details here.