August 2021 - Rob Wagner awarded Soft Materials GAAN Fellowship for Summer 2022 by the Materials Science & Engineering Program and its partnership with the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering

Aug. 11, 2021

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July 2021 - Journal article "Nonsteady fracture of transient networks: The case of vitrimer" by Tong and Franck published in PNAS.

July 20, 2021

The paper can be found here .

June 2021 - Our fire ants research featured in Smithsonian Magazine "Floating Fire Ant Rafts Form Mesmerizing Amoeba-Like Shapes"

June 29, 2021

The article can be found here .

May 2021 - Rob Wagner awarded 2021 Summer Graduate School Fellowship by the Material Science & Engineering Program of CU

May 5, 2021

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Dec 2020 - Congrats to Dr. Shankar Lalitha Sridhar on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation. He is off to a position at Avery Dennison.

Dec. 2, 2020

Dec 2020 - Congrats to Dr. Tong Shen on the successful defense of his Ph.D. dissertation. He is off to a position at 3M.

Dec. 2, 2020

Nov 2020 - Shankar recieves the 2020 outstanding dissertation award from the College of Engineering & Applied Science.

Nov. 30, 2020

Want to know more about Shankar and his work ? Make sure to check the Q&A here Link to Shankar's outstanding dissertation here Link to the College's awards page here

Nov 2020 - Franck Vernerey and Carson Bruns obtained a NSF grant to study how slide rings networks can be used as actuators.

Nov. 30, 2020

Want to know more ? Check Oksana Schuppan's article here

Journal article "Rate-dependent fracture of transient networks" by Tong and Franck published in JMPS.

July 2, 2020

The paper can be found here .

"Mechanics of transiently cross-linked nematic networks" by Shankar and Franck now published in JMPS.

May 15, 2020

The article is now available online here .

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