Jan 05
Following successful defense of his thesis “Harnessing Surface Chemistry and Instabilities in Silicone Elastomers to Synthesize Adaptive Systems with Mechanically Tunable Surface Properties and Functionality,” Ali Mazaltarim was officially awarded his PhD in August of 2021! Congratulations Ali!
Jun 22
Ali’s paper “Dynamic Manipulation of Droplets using Mechanically Tunable Microtextured Chemical Gradients” was published in Nature Communications. This work was featured in an invited blog post in the Nature Portfolio Chemistry Community “Stop and Go: Stretchable Tracks Direct Microdroplet Traffic,” and picked up by numerous media outlets: Nebraska Today, Phys.org, Nanowerk: “New technique acts as …
