• • Congratulations Martin! Martin (Taoran) Hui passed his proposal defense. – June 28, 2017

 

• • Chau Vy has passed her qualifying exams!  – May 5, 2017

 

• • Chinthani Liyanage has joined the group. Welcome! – September 23, 2016

 

• • Jennifer Bento has passed her final defense and graduated with her PhD! – September 9, 2016

 

• • Congratulations to Reihaneh, who passed her final defense and is now Dr. Mohammadi! – July 19, 2016

 

• • Feiyang Chen has joined our group. She came to UCONN as a Chemistry graduate student in the spring semester, and joined the group in May. Welcome! – May 26, 2016

 

• • Chau Vy has passed her Polymer Program cumulative exams. Well done! – May 23, 2016

 

• • Steve Woltornist successfully defended his dissertation. He is now Dr. Woltornist, and has expressed his desire to be addressed as such. Well done! – December 3, 2015

 

• • Elizabeth Brown passed her qualifying exam for entrance into the PhD program. Felicitations! – December 1, 2015

 

• • Two new members have joined the group. They are Chau Vy from the Polymer Program, and Shawn Ward from the Chemistry Department. Welcome! – November 27, 2015

 

• • Reihaneh Mohammadi won second place in the UConn 3MT competition for her presentation describing her “bottom up” brush growth. In addition to a $500 travel award, she also won a free breakfast for the lab! – October 3, 2015

 

• • Steve Woltornist won Best Poster Award from PSME at the Boston ACS meeting for his poster describing his work creating conductive foams from pristine graphene scaffolds. He was one of three winners from over 150 posters. – September 3, 2015

 

• • Reihaneh Mohammadi Sejoubsari passed her qualifying exam! – September 2, 2015

 

• • Kevin Huang passed his dissertation defense. Congratulations! – August 27, 2015

 

• • Steve Woltornist won polymer program 2015 Samuel J. Huang Graduate Student Award! Congrats! – July 11, 2015

 

• • Steve Woltornist’s poster at the 2014 Boston MRS Meeting titled “High Strength, Low Density, Conductive Graphene Composites from Emulsion Frameworks” received the second place poster award for the Graphene and Graphene Composites session. – May 13, 2015

 

• • Zhenhua has successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis! Congratulations Dr. Cui! – May 4, 2015

 

• • Andre Martinez got his PhD degree! – March 13, 2015

 

• • Prof. Adamson Joins TRI Board of Directors. – March 8, 2015

 

• • Garrett is featured in IMS news. – March 8, 2015

 

• • Our group’s work is featured in C&EN! – February 24, 2015

 

• • Congratulations Dr. Martinez for passing your thesis defense! – February 22, 2015

 

• • Steve’s paper is published in Macromolecules! – February 13, 2015

 

• • Deepthi Varghese and Elizabeth Brown joined our group as PhD students! Welcome! – January 15, 2015

 

• • Drona Madugula joined our group as a PhD student! Welcome! – October 25, 2014

 

• • Kevin Huang and Harish Kumar passed their prospectus. Congratulations! – October 25, 2014

 

• • Steve’s Paper in Carbon “Preparation of Conductive Graphene/Graphite Infused Fabrics Using an Interface Trapping Method” is now on-line. – September 20, 2014

 

• • Kevin and Jen’s paper in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics “Robust coaxial capillary microfluidic device for the high throughput formation of polymersomes” is on-line. – August 8, 2014

 

• • Reihaneh Mohammadi joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome! – July 17, 2014

 

• • Zhenhua’s paper in Small “Large Scale Thermal Exfoliation and Functionalization of Boron Nitride” has been published. – June 10, 2014

 

• • Harish passed his cumulative exams. – April 25, 2014

 

• • Garrett Kraft passed his oral exam. – March 5, 2014

 

• • Steve Woltornist passed his oral exam. – February 19, 2014

 

• • Jennifer Bento highlighted in Chemistry department newsletter. – February 11, 2014

 

• • Jennifer Bento Selected as National Science Foundation Fellows. – January 14, 2014

 

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