Congratulations for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)! Research: I will be working with Dr. Ding to develop a Super Tough Hydrogel (STH) for membrane usage and separation processes. STHs are incredibly different than your typical hydrogels; being much stronger and having an ability to withstand large amounts of pressure...
Congratulations to Zheng for a recent publication on the capillary instability of concentric polymer rings (" Capillary rupture of suspended polymer concentric rings ", Zhang, et al, Soft Mater, DOI: 10.1039/c5sm01537e).