News

The R+PM Group continues to rapidly grow. We are pleased to welcome Paula Pranda (ChBE, co-advised with Prof. Ryan Hayward), David Kennedy (ChBE), Kate Crossett (ChBE, co-advised with Prof. Ryan Hayward), and Maj. Jonny Hoang (MSE, co-advised with Prof. Mike Toney) to our group!

Congratulations to Grant Bauman for being selected for the NDSEG Fellowship! Grant joins Kyle Schlafmann as R+PM Group members that have been recognized by this prestigious honor.

Jeremy Herman joins Hayden Fowler and Tayler Hebner as R+PM Group members that have been awarded this prestigious fellowship! Congrats!

R+PM Group Members Joselle and Tayler have reported in sequential reports that reducing the strength of intermolecular interactions in LCE enhance and sharpen the mechanical response of these materials. Take a look: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adfm.202100564 and https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/py/d1py00028d .

Our group continues to grow and we are excited to welcome Kristin Lewis (ChBE), Alexis Philips (ChBE), Melvin Colorado Escobar (MSE), and Nat Skillin (co-advised with Kristi Anseth, MD/PhD)!

Congratualations to Kyle Schlafmann in being selected for the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. With this award, Kyle will continue to develop novel materials chemistries to retain hierarchical phases in liquid crystalline elastomers. Through the NDSEG, Kyle will collaborate with scientists from the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Hayden Fowler was selected for the highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to continue their research of electromechanical responses in liquid crystalline elastomers with implications to soft robotics. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList . Hayden is the 2nd R+PM Group member to receive the NSF GRF.

Check out Joselle and Brian's review that just appeared online in Advanced Materials . Enjoy the 48 pages of their hard work and effort! We feel that stimuli-responsive materials have tremendous potential in robotics implications.

We are delighted to have 4 new group members join our rapidly growing research activities at CU Boulder. Meet Tayler Hebner , Grant Bauman , Jeremy Herman , and Tina Matavulj! Welcome!

Welcome to R+PM group post-doc Jeremy Koch, who will explore mechanical and energy related implications of liquid crystalline elastomers! Welcome Jeremy !