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Welcome REU students: Joe Yoshimura and Zack Ott. Joe and Zack will work on the characterizations of porous membranes during the summer.

Congratulations to Maruf for successfully defending his Ph.D thesis. Maruf's thesis work focus on improving the antifouling characteristics of separation membranes by surface patterning.

Congratulations to Liang and Zheng for successfully passing the Comps Exam.

Congratulations to Lewis for his recent publication on Advanced Materials. In this study, we demonstrate the direct deformation and shape memory capabilities of micron-sized, lightly-crosslinked polystyrene particles using nanoimprint lithography. We exploit the ability to program and recovery new particle shapes to create a range of smart "Janus particles" with...

Congratulations to Maruf for his recent publication on Journal of Membrane Science! Maruf has published his recent work on patterning thin film composite membranes in Journal of Membrane Science. This paper, entitled " Fabrication and characterization of a surface-patterned thin film composite membrane ” for the first time reports the...

Congratulations to for his recent publication on Journal of Membrane Science! Maruf has published his recent work on patterning thin film composite membranes in Journal of Membrane Science. This paper, entitled " Fabrication and characterization of a surface-patterned thin film composite membrane ” for the first time reports the fabrication...

Congratulations to Zheng for his recent paper published on Polymer! The work reports the fabrication of well-aligned carbon nanoribbons via a highly controllable and high-throughput methodology. The paper, titled " Carbon nanopatterns and nanoribbons from directly nanoimprinted polyacrylonitrile: Correlation between crystallite orientation and nanoimprint process ”, reports the fabrication of...

Welcome Hunter Nelson from Broomfield High School! The group welcomes Hunter Nelson from Broomfield High School. As his science project, Hunter will work with Liang to conduct research on applications of surface-patterned shape memory polymers.

Congratulations to Zhen for passing his PhD thesis defense! The title of Zhen's thesis was "Demixing of Polymers Under Nanoimprinting Process". In Zhen's doctoral research, he studied the influence of substrate surface energy on the morphological evolution of planar polymer blend films and topographically patterned films. He demontrated that high-fidelity...

Zheng's proposal of "Developing a controllable and high-throughput methodology for engineering well-aligned carbon nanofibers" has been approved by the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant program and ranked top 5% among all submissions across the campus. Zheng has also been selected to receive the Friends of the Graduate School Named Award,...