Past News, 2007-2016

It was very exciting to see the field of liquid metal research (including some work from our group) highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News as “Top Research 2016“.

Dishit wins 3rd place poster at the local MRS/AVS meeting. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Gilbert, who is co-advised with Jan Genzer.  This is a university-wide competition in which participants present their thesis with one slide in 3 minutes.  Enjoy the video!

Congratulations to Chris, who is an undergrad that has worked in our lab for more than a year and published two papers in our group.  Very well deserved honor!

Congratulations to Dr. Collin Eaker!

Amber (co-advised graduate student with Jan Genzer) wins 1st place poster at The Annual Triangle Student Research Competition.  Congratulations!!

Congratulations to Amber!

Congratulations to Alex!

Thank you to Dishit, Russ, and Duncan for participating in the CHE Summer Camp at NC State, which is an outreach event for high school students interested in science and engineering.

Congratulations to Rishi for a 2nd place finish in the Intel high school talent search competition.  This is a national competition for high school students engaged in research.  Rishi worked with Ishan, Collin Eaker, Mohammed, and others in the group.  He will graduate this spring from high school.  He co-authored a paper while in our group and was a very productive group member.

Congratulations to Dishit for winning this award.

Thanks to Dishit, Kunal, Duncan, Tim, Amber, Olivia, and Russ for their help.  We hosted approximately 100 students from middle and high schools across the state of NC.  We gave tours of our lab and showed demos of 3D printing, self-folding, and laser patterning.

Congratulations to Chris Cooper for receiving the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.  Chris is an undergrad at NC State who has worked in our lab over a year.  He has been a co-author on one paper and is working on another paper currently.  Chris has been mentored by many in the lab, but primarily Yiliang during his initial work.

Congratulations to Farzad!  Farzad was co-advised with Prof. Peter Hauser and worked on new methods to treat PET surfaces, which is a common commercial polymer (eg. Coke bottles).

It is an honor to be on the list with so many respected scientists. This award acknowledges the fantastic research and hard work from the students in the group.

Congratulations to Alex!  She was selected to represent NC State at the ACC Meeting of the Minds research meeting for undergrads.  She is mentored by Ishan.

Congratulations to Amber for winning second place poster at the Stannet Research Symposium!

Congratulations to Yiliang. This award recognizes the best “mid-career” graduate studnet in our department. Yiliang has been a tireless worker and an enthusiastic researcher, mentor (for undergrads), and collaborator.

Congratulations to Dishit for being chosen as the runner up for the Stannett Award.  This award recognizes the best “mid-career” graduate student.  Dishit has been a great researcher and groupmate and is very deserving of this recognition.

Congratulations to Rishi (who was admitted recently to MIT), has been selected as a semifinalist for the Intel competition.  He worked in our lab as a high school student and did a phenomenal job under the mentorship of Mohammed, Collin, and Ishan.

Welcome Minyung Song and Taylor Neumann as new graduate students in the group!

This video is intended to encourage students to apply to NC State.  Thanks to Dishit, Amber, and Collin for participating.

Dickey recorded instructional videos for the popular (now 4th edition) book “Principles of Chemical Processes”.  It is the most popular chemical engineering text in the world thanks to the authors Felder, Rousseau, Bullard (all were faculty at NC State during their original contributions to the book).

Chris is an outstanding undergrad in our lab.  Congratulations on this impressive distinction!

Congrats to Alex Johnson, an undergrad in our group mentored by Ishan.  Alex won 2nd place for his poster at the annual AIChE meeting in Salt Lake City.

Congratulations to Ishan!

Congratulations to Rishi!  The Siemens Research Competition is a high competitive national competition for high school students.  Rishi worked in our lab for the past year and was co-author on a paper in addition to spearheading a new project in our lab.  Thank you to Mohammed, Ishan, and Collin E. for helping to mentor Rishi.

Congratulations to Yiliang!

Congratulations to Ishan, Hudson, and our friend, Carmel Majidi for this nice recognition of a paper published in Journal of Materials Chemistry.

Congratulations to Dishit!

Congratulations to Mohammed!  Mohammed will be headed to Purdue for a post-doc.

Congratulations to Daniel who successfully defended his thesis.  He is co-advised with Prof. Velev and his thesis focuses on actuating hydrogels.  His thesis is a model of productivity and inquisitiveness.

Link to video from NC State College of Engineering.

Shu worked in our lab for two years and is now a graduate student at UPENN.  She published a first author paper while working in our lab in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.  Here is an article describing her success story.

Thank you to Tim, Dishit, Rashed, Alexa, Marina, Ying, Russ, Duncan, and Amber for their generous and enthusiastic participation!

Welcome to Jenn (NJIT), Hudson (UVA), Marina (Berkeley), and Alexa (Puerto Rico).  These students join our group for summer research experiences.

Congratulations to Michael and David.  Michael is mentored by Dishit and David by Collin.  The grant will support their research in the lab this summer.

This promotion is recognition for the great students, colleagues, and mentors I have had the pleasure of working with.

Congratulations to Olivia Gordon, who is mentored by Rashed Khan.  Her poster describes her research on new ways inject liquid metal into microchannels.

Thanks to Dishit, Laza, Duncan, Tim, Amber, and Daniel for their help.  We hosted approximately 100 students from middle and high schools across the state of NC.  We gave tours of our lab and showed demos of 3D printing, self-folding, and laser patterning.

Congrats to Laza, Alex, Chris, Erik, and Olivia!

Profs. Dickey and Genzer gave a talk titled “Hands-free Origami” to a group of about 80 kids at the “Science Under the Stars” event that took place as part of the NC Science Festival.  We had a great time and were accompanied by Duncan, Amber, and Ying who demoed our self-folding work for kids to get them excited about science.

Congratulations to Amber on a great accomplishment!

Congratulations to Collin!

Congrats Farzad!

The group went out to Mellow Mushroom to celebrate the PhD of Berc and Robin!

Congrats to Robin!

Congratulations to Dishit!  He was a TA for Dr. Dickey in 205 and 316 and did a fantastic job.

Congratulations to Tim Shay for receiving first place for best poster at the Schoenborn Research Symposium and for Daniel Morales for the third best oral presentation.

Our groups reearch was featured on the show El Hormiguero.  It is a spanish show broadcast all over South American and in some of Asia.  They invited us to demonstrate our research on liquid metal.  Nicole Kidman was the other guest on the show.  The show was recorded in London and airs January 2015. It is at the 30 min mark in the show.

Prof. George Whitesides visits NC State to receive an honorary degree and give a lecture on Soft Robotics.

Congratulations to Berc!  Berc is primarily advised by Greg Parsons, but worked some in our lab too during his PhD.

Congratulations to Dr. Rashed!  He wrote and defended a fantastic thesis on liquid metals.

Amber is a first year graduate student from Auburn.  Welcome to the group!

Congratulations to Tim Shay!

Dishit, Tim, Collin, and Ishan hosted a group of kids from Marbles Museum through our NSF ERC ASSIST program.

Congratulations to Ying!  Ying was one of 6 to receive this competitive award, which will give her funds to pursue opportunities for professional development.

Congratulations to Rashed and Collin Eaker!  This paper describes the electrochemical deposition and removal of surface oxides as surfactants on liquid metals of gallium. It represents an easy and reversible way to achieve perhaps the largest delta change in surface tension ever reported.  The title of the paper is, “Giant and Switchable Surface Activity of Liquid Metal via Surface Oxidation“

Dr. D interviewed by NY Times and LA Times about the beautiful work from MIT and Harvard to make self-folding robots.

Undergraduate research symposiums caps the summer experience for Cheng, Igor, Hudson, Saringi.

Dishit, Ishan, and Lin all pass the first year proposition exam for entry into the PhD program.  Congratulations!

Our group has been active this month (March-April 2014) in scientific outreach activities.

• Robin and Michael volunteered at Nanodays at Marbles Children’s Museum
• Robin and Daniel volunteered at NC Science Festival
• The Dickey group participated in Nanodays at NC State, which is an open house intended to teach K-12 kids about nanotechnology.

The group went bowling!

Congratulations to Daniel for being selected for this competitive graduate research symposium hosted by Milliken.

Daniel Morales received the first ever Stannett Award that recognizes the top ‘mid-career’ graduate student in our department.  Daniel is co-advised by Orlin Velev and is working on actuating and patterning hydrogels.

Congrats to Tim for receiving the top poster award at the Schoenborn Graduate Research Symposium.  Tim is co-advised with Prof. Velev.

Congratulations to Daniel Morales for the third place poster at the Schoenborn Graduate Research Symposium.  Daniel is co-advised by Orlin Velev.

Welcome to the group, Ishan!

Welcome Yiliang Lin back to our group!  Lin worked in our lab last summer as part of an exchange program and we are happy to have him back.

Dishit joins us from ICT in India.

Congratulations to Duncan!

Congratulations to DR Ying!

The four of us did our groups ‘self-folding’ outreach activity at this event open to the public and organized by Duke.  Lots of curious kids stopped by to try their hand at self-folding.

Congrats to Daniel for all his hard work.  This paper describes ‘gel walkers’, which are hydrogels that can walk across a surface in response to electric fields.

Congratulations to John, who works in our lab with Daniel and Tim!

Congratulations to Robin.  This collaborative work with Jan Genzer describes the use of PVMS to make silicone microfluidic channels that behave like PDMS, but do not swell in organic solvents .

Congratulations to Collin Eaker!

Ying wins first place poster at the local MRS poster contest.  Congratulations to Ying!

Congratulations to Kazi for winning first place at the MIRT/MRSEC Joint REU Symposium hosted by UNC.

Congratulations!  The paper titled, “Reversible patterning and actuation of hydrogels by electrically assisted ionoprinting” was done in collaboration with Prof. Velev.

We had a group picnic at Lake Johnson in Raleigh and managed to brave a short rain shower and some hungry water fowl.

Michael Valeri won first place at the NC State Undergraduate Research Symposium.  Congratulations to Michael for all his hard work and dedication!

Michael Bissette is an undergrad in our group.  He received 3rd place poster at the regional AIChE meeting during this past weekend.  Congratualtions!

John Lee is an undergrad in our group mentored by Daniel and co-advised by Prof. Velev.  He received 5th place poster at the regional AIChE meeting during this past weekend.  Congratualtions!

Ying is selected as a finalist for the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award at the National ACS Meeting in New Orleans.  Congratulations!

Dhruv is a high school student who worked in our lab with the supervision of Daniel and Etieene (co-advised w/ Prof. Velev).  He is representing the state of NC in the Beijing Youth Science Creation Competition.  This weekened, he received first place in the competition.  Congrats to Dhruv!

Rashed wins 1st place poster at the NC State Graduate Research Symposium.  Congratulations to a well-deserved honor.

Dhruv is a high school student (from the great Enloe high school!) who worked in our lab the past summer.  He received the Park Scholarship, which is the most prestigious scholarship that NC State offers.  Congratulations and very well deserved!

The University Faculty Scholar program is in its first year at NC State and is intended to recognize outstanding faculty.

Bril visits Raleigh for the holidays.  Bril worked in the lab during summer 2009 as part of an exchange program.  He has since completed a MS at Stanford and now works for Applied Materials in California.

Congratulations to Ju-Hee – first official PhD from the group!

Congratulations to Gerry!

Dhruv is a high school student working in our lab.  He is mentored by Daniel and co-advised by Prof. Velev.  He was selected to represent North Carolina in a science competition in China as part of the North Carolina International Science Challenge.  Well done!

Link

A beautiful sunset over the new library at Centennial Campus outside of EB-1.

Congrats to Rashed!

Gilbert is a new PhD student who will be co-advised with Jan Genzer and is working on the Eastman project.

Tim is a new PhD student who will be co-advised with Orlin Velev and is working on the ASSIST project for wearable electronics.

Robins paper in Journal of Materials Chemistry is published.  The work was done in collaboration with our friend Ryan Chiechi and with the help of a former post-doc, Dhana.

Congratulations to Daniel for a job well done!

Congrats to Mohammed on a job well done!

Congratulations to Brandi Shaw for winning 2nd place at the AIChE undergraduate poster contest at the national meeting in Pittsburgh.  This is the second year in a row a student has received recognition for their poster (Shu Zhu received 3rd place last year).

Dickey and Genzer drive through Yellowstone on the way to give invited talks at the Polymer Network conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Congrats to Berc!

Congratulations Collin!

Congratulations Ju-Hee!  Ju-Hee was the first graduate student to join the group.  This fall she will start a post-doc at Harvard.

Jacob’s paper in Lab on a Chip is accepted for publication.  Congratluations!  Jacob was an undergraduate reseracher in our group and is now pursuing a PhD at UC Berkeley.

Lin Yiliang joins our group as part of a Chinese Exchange program.  He will be here this summer and then return to China to finish his undergraduate degree.

Dickey visits Chemical Engineering Dept at NTNU in Trondheim Norway.  Yes, it is summer time and yes, Dickey is wearing a heavy coat.

Conspicuously absent from this photo are Duncan and Etienne (as well as the undergraduate students who work in our group).

Rashed wins first place in the poster competition at the Soft Matter symposium.

Dickey helps organized Triangel Soft Matter meeting with Yara and Jan.  Ulrich Steiner visits as the plenary speaker.

Dickey receives university recognition for devotion to excellence in teaching.  Thank you to the students and mentors that made this award possible!

Paper featured in Soft Matter and is one of the top downloaded articles for several months. Congratulations Ying!

Ying posts video on Youtube and it goes viral (~200k hits in two weeks):  3D Object, Just Add Light.

Congrats to Ju-Hee and Hyung-Jun for their baby girl (Minseo).

Duncan joins the group as a PhD student and will be co-advised with Prof. Genzer.

Ying and Michael enjoying the nice weather.

The group participates twice in the NC State Engineering Summer Camp for Middle School Students students by doing an interactive demonstration.

Paper on shape shifting antenna is highlighted by PhysOrg.

Ju-Hee and Rashed both have papers accepted for publication (Advanced Materials and Applied Physics Letters).

The group participates in the NC State Engineering Summer Camp for high school students by doing demonstrations in the lab.

Collin Eaker joins as a masters student. Logan Maxwell, Jon Lewis, and Longfei Chao join the lab for summer projects.

Ju-Hee’s paper in Lab on a Chip is picked as a “hot” article by the journal. It is also highlighted by PhysOrg,ScienceDaily, Materials Today, Chemistry Views, and Chemical Engineering Progress(among others).

Michael receives Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award that recognizes young researchers.

Ju-Hee So is first author on a paper describing a new method of fabricating microelectrodes

Dickey gives invited talked at flexible electronics conference.

Nathan Yinger, Hayley Stowe, Michael Bissette, Silu Zhang, and Justin Chew join the group as undergraduate research assistants.

Michael’s second daughter, Emmy, is born.

Two outstanding undergraduate researchers in our group have received funding to continue their research: Collin Ladd and Shu Zhu.

Ju-Hee gives talk at MRS and her talk is highlighted online by IEEE Spectrum.

Two new graduate students have joined the group: Daniel Morales and Mohammed Mohammed.

Dickey’s paper on shadow evaporation recognized by Nature Materials, Materials Views, among others.

Jennifer Leaf joins the group as an undergraduate research assistant.

Michael gives talk at AFRL workshop on Nano/Bio Interfaces.

Ju-Hee creates a semi-permanent display at the Joyner Visitors Center, which is the gateway for visiting NC State.

A group lunch for Carolina BBQ

Junjie is an undergraduate exchange student from China and will work with Ju-Hee this summer.

A group of us went to a minor league baseball game.

Michael gives talk at Triangle Soft Matter Symposium at Duke.

Shu Zhu, Edward Tomlinson, Shanthan Citineni, Matt Berhorst join the group as undergraduate research assistants.

Michael receives CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Michael gives talk at Sandia National Laboratory during visit.

Our work on stretchable antennas is highlighted in The Economist, MSNBC, Forbes, Wired, MIT Technology Review, etc.

Michael gives talk at IIT-Kanpur.

Three new graduate students have joined the group: Berc Kalanyan, Rashed Khan, and Robin Mays.

Three outstanding undergraduate researchers in our group have received funding to continue their research: Steven Doligalksi, Farshid Jafapour, and Jackson Menius.

Seminar given in honor of Prof.  Charlie Hoyle, who sadly passed away just weeks prior.

Dickey and several other professors get dunked in a dunking booth as part of a student picnic.

Thank you for your time in the group, Bril.

Julie Boyles was recognized for her contribution to the research in our group at Lord Corporation.

Ju-Hee won 2nd place for her poster at the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Our groups first paper has been accepted to Advanced Functional Materials. The paper describes stretchable antennas using liquid metal.

Steven is a chemical engineering junior at NC State.

Farshid is a junior in chemical engineering at NC State.

Julie is a highschool student at Apex and will be working with Ying this summer.

Bril is an undergraduate exchange student from China and will work with Ju-Hee this summer.

Mad scientists at work.

Ying officially joins the PhD program by passing the ‘proposition’ exam.

Jackson Menius joins the group as an undergraduate research assistant. He will be mentored by Ying.

Ju-Hee, Ying, and Dhana are the first to join the group and get the lab started.

Ying playing guitar hero at group party.

Ying Liu joins the group as a graduate student. Ying is from China, but recently completed a MS at Iowa State. She will be working on a collaborative project with the Genzer group.

Dr. Dickey gives a seminar to the student MRS chapter at NC State on “Unconventional Fabrication”.

Dhana joins the group as a lab manager and post-doc. Her background is in organic synthesis.

Jacob is the first undergraduate to join the group.

Dr. Dickey officially starts his position as an assistant professor at NC State.

Ju-Hee is the first graduate student in the group.  She joins a year before Michael gets to NC State.