8/4/2017 – Congratulate Erik on successfully defending his PhD thesis.
6/12/2017 – Congratulate Sahil on successfully defending his PhD thesis.
2016
9/4/2016 – Congratulate Erik on publishing in Biophysical Journal – “Direct Tracking of Particles and Quantification of Margination in Blood Flow”.
7/28/2016 – Congratulate Alan and Sahil on being named inaugural Anton Paar Fellows. Link 1& Link 2.
7/28/2016 – Prof. Anson Ma and group partners with Anton Paar on developing the next-generation rheometers. Link 1 & Link2.
7/13/2016 – Prof. Anson Ma and colleagues receive UConn Academic Plan Grant ($300,000) to develop a custom-built inkjet printing platform for electronics manufacturing. Link .
6/24/2016 – Congratulate Yang on publishing in Rapid Prototyping Journal – “Inkjet and Inkjet-based 3D Printing: Connecting Fluid Properties and Printing Performance”.
3/2/2016 – Prof. Anson Ma receives Non-tenured Faculty Award from 3M. Link
2/11/2016 – Prof. Anson Ma represents UConn to serve on the Technical Council of NextFlex – national flexible electronics manufacturing institute. Link
2/11/2016 – Prof. Anson Ma and Sahil Vora publish a book chapter on “Understanding the phase behavior, rheology and processing of carbon nanotube suspensions” in Carbon Nanotechnology by One Central Press. Link
1/13/2016 – Congratulate Sahil on winning a GE fellowship.
1/6/2016 – Prof. Anson Ma and colleagues publish in Macromolecules – “Relationship of extensional viscosity and liquid crystalline transition to length distribution in carbon nanotube solutions.”. Link
1/5/2016 – Prof. Anson Ma and team publish in Review of Scientific Instruments – “Controlling system components with a sound card: A versatile inkjet fluid testing platform”. Link
2015
12/10/2015 – Congratulate Alan on winning a NASA CT Space Grant fellowship.
10/15/2015 – Sahil was selected as a finalist for the Carbon Nanomaterials Graduate Student Award at the 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City.
10/15/2015 – Prof. Anson Ma gave an award presentation at the 87th Society of Rheology Annual Meeting in Baltimore. Erik and Yang also presented their research at the meeting.
8/11/2015 – Prof. Anson Ma gave an invited talk entitled “3D Printing for Biomedical Applications” at the UConn Health Center..
6/2/2015 – Prof. Kelly Burke and Prof. Anson Ma are receiving a CT Regenerative Medicine seed grant to research on 3D printing of human instestine models.
4/10/2015 – Prof. Anson Ma has been selected to receive the prestigious Arther B. Metzner Early Career Award from the Society of Rheology. Link
4/6/2015 – Prof. Anson Ma and students publish in Langmuir. – “Surface pressure and microstructure of carbon nanotubes at an air–water interface”. Link
2014
12/19/2014 –Erik and his research on nanoparticle-based drug delivery are featured on the department website. Link
12/16/2014 – Congratulate Yang on winning the second prize of the micrograph contest organized by UCONN chapter of Keramos..
11/17/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma was the Area Chair for “22A Carbon Nanomaterials” at the 2014 AIChE annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. He also presented a talk entitled “Surface Properties of Carbon Nanotubes at an Air-Water Interface.”
11/07/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma gave an invited talk entitled “The Applications of Nanoparticles for Foam Stabilization and Drug Delivery” at the University of Maine.
11/05/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma did an TV interview with Channel 8 News on 3D printing for biomedical applications. Link
10/22/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma gave a rheology workshop at the ALTANA Innovation Conference held at BYK Additives & Instruments, Wallingford, CT
10/15/2014 – A paper co-authored by Prof. Anson Ma has won the Best Applied Paper Award of 2013 from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) South Texas Section. The paper was published in the journal Science. Link
10/09/2014 – Erik Carboni and Sahil Vora presented their research work on particle margination for cancer therapy and carbon nanotubes at air-water interface, respectively, at the 86th Society of Rheology (SoR) meeting. Link
07/15/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma joins the editorial board of Nano Open. Link
07/15/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma and colleagues publish in ACS Appl. Mater. – “Facile Synthesis of Co3O4@CNT with High Catalytic Activity for CO Oxidation under Moisture-Rich Conditions”. Link
05/13/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma and students have been featured on UConn Today – “Students Design Artificial Kidney with 3-D Printing”. Link
04/10/2014 – Prof. Anson Ma and group publish in AAPS PharmSciTech – “Particle Margination and Its Implications on Intravenous Anticancer Drug Delivery”, AAPS PharmSciTech, Online First. Link
1/13/2014 – Congratulate Huseini on winning a GE fellowship to work on 3-D printing.
1/1/2014 – CFL receives a UConn Faculty Large Grant for “Developing a High-Resolution Inkjet Printer for Additive Manufacturing”.
2013
12/20/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma joins the Editorial Board of the Research Journal of Nanotechnology. Link
12/17/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma gave an invited talk entitled “The Flow Behavior and Processing of Carbon Nanotube Suspensions” at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
12/17/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma participates in the US-Japan Faculty Exchange Program sponsored by NSF. Link
11/21/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma gave an invited talk entitled “The Microstructure and Rheology of Carbon Nanotube Suspensions” at the University of Rhode Island. Link
10/25/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma gave an invited talk entitled “The Microstructure and Rheology of Carbon Nanotube Suspensions” at the NCS: Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter Workshop at Rutgers University. Link
09/09/2013 – Congratulate Rodney on winning the Presidential Enrichment Award to visualize drops for high-resolution printing. Link
08/26/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma joins the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Engineering and Process Techniques Link
05/08/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma joins the editorial board of the Journal of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Link
05/08/2013 – CFL receives two research grants via UCONN’s Manufacturing Technical Assistance Program to collaborate with Jonal Laboratories and Foster Corporation.
05/07/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma gave an invited talk entitled “The Microstructure, Rheology, and Processing of Carbon Nanotube Suspensions” at Levich Institute, City College of CUNY. Link
04/23/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma and Rice colleagues publish in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research – “Scalable Formation of Carbon Nanotubes Films Containing Highly Aligned Whiskerlike Crystallites”. Link
04/07/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma joins the editorial board of the Journal of Energy and Chemical Engineering Link
04/05/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma and colleagues from Virginia Tech and U. Bridgeport publish in the Journal of Applied Physics – “Structural and band alignment properties of Al2O3 on epitaxial Ge grown on (100), (110), and (111)A GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy” Link
01/30/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma has received the prestigious NSF CAREER award to research on the interfacial rheology of carbon nanotubes! Link
01/11/2013 – Prof. Anson Ma and Rice colleagues publish in Science – “Strong, Light, Multifunctional Fibers of Carbon Nanotubes with Ultrahigh Conductivity”, Science, 339(6116), 182-186. Link
11/14/2012 – Congratulate Yang on passing her exam to be qualified as a PhD candidate!
11/09/2012 – Prof. Anson Ma has been chosen to receive the “Distinguished Young Rheologist Award” from TA Instruments.
10/10/2012 – Congratulate Huseini on passing his exam to be qualified as a PhD candidate!
10/03/2012 – Prof. Anson Ma and Rice colleagues publish in ACS Nano – Mirri, Ma, Hsu, Behabtu, Eichmann, Young, Tsentalovich, and Pasquali’s article on “High-Performance Carbon Nanotube Transparent Conductive Films by Scalable Dip Coating” has been accepted for publication in ACS Nano (Impact Factor: 11.421). Link
08/13/12 – CFL has received the NSF EAGER award to research on the flow dynamics of nanoparticles in simulated blood flows for improved cancer therapy. Link
06/29/2012 – Prof. Anson Ma and Rice colleagues publish in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research – Dan, Ma, Haroz, Kono, and Pasquali’s article on ¨Nematic-Like Alignment in SWNT Thin Films from Aqueous Colloidal Suspensions¨ has been accepted for publication in I&EC Research (ACS publications). Link
04/10/2012 – Congratulate Profs. Anson Ma, Bill Mustain, and Dan Burkey on winning the Provost’s General Education Course Enhancement Grant Competition. The grant will be used to develop a new course entitled “CHEG 1200 Introduction to Food Science and Engineering”. The course will illustrate how to apply basic chemical engineering principles to understand food science.
03/30/2012 – Congratulate Erik on winning the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! NSF GRFP