Assistant Professor | Chemical Engineering | @universityofRI | Responsive, multifunctional soft materials š³ļøāš (he/him)
Kingston, RI
Joined November 2019
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Some seasonal decorations from our group and those from @RoxburyLab @IAndreuNano !
Their decorating skills far surpass mine (but yes, thatās me on the bat!)
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Hub Grantee Spotlight š” @URIEngineering has been awarded a grant to conduct a proof-of-concept study on synthetic materials for drug delivery, aiming to streamline evaluation processes & potentially reduce reliance on traditional animal testing. š¬
Thanks to @RILifeSciHub for supporting some of our work creating biomimetic hydrogels and investigating how nanotherapeutics transport in cell-laden networks!
And so begins another 1+ week of this image burning into my phone screen every time I need to find a talk.
See you all soon at #AIChE!
Just in time for fall, some of our slimy, drippy, some might even say spooky gels featured on the cover of @softmatter!
Highlight our work by @Elnaz_NM, identifying yielding and fracturing motifs in colloidal gels: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artiā¦
š°New paper out today with @N0tAChemb0t!
We synthesized some incredibly effective rheological modifiers that gel emulsions and achieve moduli of ~1kPa at <1wt%.
These mechanics arise from bottlebrush midblocks that promote bridging and reduce looping.
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We show that the rate elastic growth in these systems is related to the relative bridging fraction. Although we still can't directly quantify bridging density, this approach is one of the first experimental techniques to gain insight into bridging density in complex fluids.
When your partner goes āwell I assume you got this word firstā and then you have to admit that you didnāt even think of it and maybe he knows your research better than you doā¦ šš
Proud of my alma mater @cooperunion for returning to full tuition scholarships! š
Because of these scholarships, students can excel inside and outside of the classroom unlike anywhere else in higher education
The first day of the semester at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York on Tuesday came with a surprise for its college seniors.
Their tuition for the year will be free. nyti.ms/3AYE9Ea
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Well actually...
Peanut Butter is a liquid. We said what we said.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Peanut butter is technically a Bingham Plastic (a subset of non-Newtonian fluids), but under ASTM D4359-90 it is classified as a liquid, not a solid. The TSA considers the nut spread a liquid, but is unrestricted if it is a sandwich ingredient.
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Glad to see this published the same day I presented it at #ACSColloids!
We designed gels with identical linear rheology but with different interactions. They exhibit distinct nonlinear failure modes and thixotropy
Great work by @Elnaz_NM
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Fantastic!
URI is innovating across biomedical and engineering fields, especially in workforce development and providing direct support (i.e., paid!) for disadvantaged students to gain the necessary skills to enter these positions.
Glad to see state support come through!
NEW: In front of a room of hundreds of biotech, education, and business leaders, Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi confirmed that funding for the University of Rhode Islandās proposed life sciences building āwill be in the budgetā this year.
@BostonGlobe
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See some of our other @NIH-supported initiatives:
URI ESTEEMED: web.uri.edu/esteemed
MARC U*STAR: web.uri.edu/marc
Itās impossible to address these inequities without accurate data.
Disappointed to see this obstruction but glad that the community is holding agencies accountable.
Thank you @freemanjb for your work on this.
The agency who generates official diversity statistics for the US scientific workforce was forced to give up its pilot data, which show it's been misrepresenting its data to avoid adding LGBTQ+ questions. @NCSESgov is obstructing LGBTQ+ equity in science. science.org/doi/10.1126/scieā¦
Our lab has a new toy to begin testing the performance of our complex fluids as 3D printing inks.
Thanks to @Dr_COB for help designing this set up, which was built completely by a team of undergrads sponsored by @URIEngineering!
.@RIPTA_RI bus service to our universities is essential to growing our workforce, meeting student needs, and increasing access to education for communities across the state. We should be expanding service to the university not cutting!
Excited to announce the inaugural Queer Science night in collaboration with Youth Pride focusing on getting our hands messy with soft materials and building STEM identities in LGBTQ+ youth!
Providence locals, stop by and say hi!
More details: fb.me/e/1KCp28ALY
