News

February 

• Cory Sims joins Tuteja Lab as a Post-Doc fellow! Welcome! 

April

• Jiayue Huang received the Student Poster Award at the 2025 Coating Tech Conference! Well Done!

February

• Dr. Anish Tuteja was awarded the David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award. Congrats!

• News about our new DARPA grant (up to $ 11.5M) titled "Ice Control Enhancement with Closed Loop Molecular Design (ICECycle) ” has been published. Check the news here!

• Interviews on National Public Radio about our new DARPA grant (up to $ 11.5M) titled "Ice Control Enhancement with Closed Loop Molecular Design (ICECycle) ” have been published. Check the news here and here!

March

• Catherine S. Snyder, Taylor Repetto, and Anish Tuteja publish a book chapter on "Co-Delivery Polymeric Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid) (PLGA) Nanoparticles to Target Cancer Stem-Like Cells" in Cancer Stem Cells! Well done!

• Brian Macdonald, Fan-Wei Wang, Brian Tobelmann, Jing Wang, and Anish Tuteja publish their research on "Design of Abrasion-Resistant, Long-Lasting Antifog Coatings" in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Well done!

June

• Jing Wang, Brian Macdonald, Tae H. Cho, Taylor Repetto, Kai Sun, Anish Tuteja, and Neil P. Dasgupta publish their research on "Bioinspired Zwitterionic Nanowires with Simultaneous Biofouling Reduction and Release" in Small! Well done!

• David Speer successfully defends his dissertation titled “Optimization and Implementation of Continuous Liquid-liquid Extraction and In-situ Separation Processes for Practical Recovery”! Congratulations and all the best Dr. Speer!!

• Zoe Meyer receives NIH Training Grants (T32) from the Acute and Critical Care Engineering Training Program (ACCETP)! Well Done!

August

• Dr. Sudeep Sharma received the 2024 BI Innovator Post Doctoral Award! Well Done!

• Haoxuan He joins Tuteja Lab as a PhD student! Welcome! 

• Abhishek Dhyani, Taylor Repetto, Shannon VanAken, Jean Nemzek, J Scott VanEpps, Geeta Mehta, and Anish Tuteja publish their research on "Antimicrobial wound dressings for full thickness infected burn wounds" in Shock! Well done!

December

• Taylor Repetto successfully defends her dissertation titled “Design and Application of Surfaces for Biological Fouling Control”! Congratulations and all the best Dr. Repetto!!

January

• Tyler Olson joins Tuteja Lab as a PhD student! Welcome! 

May

• Alondra M Ortiz-Ortiz, Andrew J Gayle, Jing Wang, Hannah R Faustyn, Daniel Penley, Caleb Sherwood, Anish Tuteja, and Neil P Dasgupta publish their research on "Scaling-Up Seeded Hydrothermal Nanowire Synthesis on Non-planar Surfaces Using a Flow Reactor" in ACS Applied Engineering Materials! Well done!

August

• Congratulations to Tyler Olson on successfully achieving her candidacy. Well done!

• David Speer, Tirth Patel, Brian Ho, Jack Phillips, Tianyang Zhu, Joseph Shangraw, Meltem Urgun-Demirtas, Yanna Liang, and Anish Tuteja publish their research on "Enhanced, Continuous, Liquid-liquid Extraction and In-situ Separation of Volatile Fatty Acids from Fermentation Broth" in Separation and Purification Technology! Well done!

December

• We have been awarded a new DURIP grant titled "A Unified Testing, Evaluation, Research, and Development Facility for Ice‐ and Snow‐Modulating Materials.” Check the news here!

January

• Jing Wang accepted the faculty position at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Well done!

• Congratulations to Jiayue Huang on successfully achieving her candidacy. Well done!

• News about the snow-shedding is published. Check the news here and the journal paper here!

February

• Congratulations to Alex Kate Halvey on winning the Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize For Distinguished Academic Achievement Prize. Well done!!

April

• Jun Li accepted the faculty position at the University of Minnesota. Well done!

• Alex Kate Halvey successfully defends her dissertation titled “Design and Applications of Surfaces for Solid Fouling Mitigation”! Congratulations and all the best Dr. Halvey!! 

May

• Abhishek Dhyani, WonjaeChoi, Kevin Golovin, and Anish Tuteja publish their review on "Surface design strategies for mitigating ice and snow accretion" in Matter! Well done!

• Jing Wang, Bingyu Wu, Abhishek Dhyani, Taylor Repetto, Andrew J. Gayle, Tae H. Cho, Neil P. Dasgupta, and Anish Tuteja publish their research on "Durable Liquid- and Solid-Repellent Elastomeric Coatings Infused with Partially Crosslinked Lubricants" in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Well done!

• Our paper "Facilitating large-scale snow shedding from in-field solar arrays using icephobic surfaces with low-interfacial toughness" has been chosen as an Editor's pick and is featured in the 'Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2021' virtual issue! Check it out here!

August

• Abhishek Dhyani, Taylor Repetto, Sarah A Snyder, Catherine Snyder, and Anish Tuteja publish their research on "Surfaces with instant and persistent antimicrobial efficacy against bacteria and SARS-CoV-2" in Matter! Well done! Press coverage can be found here.

• Brian Macdonald successfully defends his dissertation titled “Design and Application of Surfaces that control Liquid and Solid Fouling”! Congratulations and all the best Dr. Macdonald!! 

September

• Yuxuan Deng, Brian Ho, and Alexa Goldstein join Tuteja Lab! Welcome!

October

• Jianxing Sun joins Tuteja Lab as a postdoctoral researcher! Welcome! 

December

• Brian Macdonald, and Anish Tuteja publish their research on "Polysiloxane-Based Liquid-like Layers for Reducing Polymer and Wax Fouling" in Langmuir! Well done!

January

• Brian Tobelmann successfully defends his dissertation titled “Design of high-performance surfaces for controlling phase transformation” to start off 2021! Congratulations, Dr. Tobelmann and all the best at Boston Consulting Group!

• Catherine Snyder successfully defends her dissertation titled “Polymer Nanoparticle Design for Ovarian Cancer Therapies”! Congratulations and all the best Dr. Snyder!! 

• Congratulations to David Speer on successfully achieving his candidacy. Well done!!

February

• Congratulations to Abhishek Dhyani on winning 2021 Towner Prize for outstanding PhD research. Well done!!

May

• Abhishek Dhyani successfully defends his dissertation titled “Design and applications of surfaces for solid fouling control”! Congratulations and all the best Dr. Dhyani!!

• Fan-Wei Wang achieves his candidacy and passes with distinction! Well done!

• Dr. Tuteja is now a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Congratulations Anish!

July

• Abhishek Dhyani, Jing Wang, Alex Kate Halvey, and Brian Macdonald publish their review on "Design and applications of surfaces that control the accretion of matter" in Science! Well done!

August

• Jun Li joins Tuteja Lab as a postdoctoral researcher! Welcome! 

October

• Jiaqi Guo and Matthew Wu join Tuteja Lab as PhD students! Welcome!

• Alex Kate Halvey, Brian Macdonald, Kevin Golovin, Mathew Boban, and Abhishek Dhyani publish their research on "Rapid and Robust Surface Treatment for Simultaneous Solid and Liquid Repellency" in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Well done!

November

• Jun Li is invited to be on the editorial board of Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. Congrats!

• Gibum Kwon, Ethan R. Post, Arun K. Kota, Chao Li, and David L. Speer publish their research on "Continuous Liquid–Liquid Extraction and in-Situ Membrane Separation of Miscible Liquid Mixtures" in Langmuir! Well done!

• Abhishek Dhyani publishes his research on "Facilitating Large-Scale Snow Shedding from In-Field Solar Arrays using Icephobic Surfaces with Low-Interfacial Toughness" in Advanced Materials Technologies! Well done!

January

• Taylor Repetto achieves her candidacy! Congratulations!

March

• Abhishek Dhyani receives the 2020-2021 Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship award! Congratulations!

April

• Congratulations to Abhishek Dhyani for receiving the 2020 ACS POLY Graduate Student Travel award!

July

• Jing Wang and Abhishek Dhyani publish their work on "Rational Design of Transparent Nanowire Architectures with Tunable Geometries for Preventing Marine Fouling" in Advanced Materials Interfaces!

January

• Congratulations to Brian Macdonald and Alex Halvey on achieving candidacy! Well done!

• Taylor Repetto joins Tuteja Lab as a PhD student! Welcome! 

April

• Brian Macdonald receives the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Congratulations on the fantastic achievement!

• Brian Tobelmann and Kevin Golovin publish their work titled "Influence of textural statistics on drag reduction by scalable, randomly rough superhydrophobic surfaces in turbulent flow" in AIP Physics of Fluids! Congratulations!

• Kevin Golovin and Abhishek Dhyani publish their work on "Low–interfacial toughness materials for effective large-scale deicing" in Science. Congratulations!

September

• Catherine Snyder receives an oral presentation award at the 2019 ChE Graduate Research Symposium. Congratulations!

November

• Catherine Snyder wins the Silver Award for her poster at the Materials Research Symposium! Congratulations! 

February

• Kevin receives the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for 2017 given in recognition of the most exceptional scholarly work produced by doctoral students at the University of Michigan in 2017. Congratulations! 

March

• Congratulations to Mathew, Kevin, Brian and Omkar on their work on "Smooth, All-Solid, Low-Hysteresis, Omniphobic Surfaces with Enhanced Mechanical Durability" published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Great work!

April

• Congratulations to Kevin Golovin and Mathew Boban for their new publication on "Characterization of superhydrophobic surfaces for drag reduction in turbulent flow" published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics! Fantastic work!

May

• Mathew Boban successfully defends his PhD thesis titled "Designing Robust Liquid and Solid Repellent Surfaces". Congratulations and phenomenal work! 

June

• Congratulations to Ethan Post on winning Lubrizol’s Excellence in Scientific Research Award in the 2018 Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio Science & Engineering Poster Competition! Well deserved!

August

• Ethan Post successfully defends his PhD thesis titled "Wettability Membranes and Surfaces for the Separation of Oil–Water Mixtures, Extractions, and Fouling Prevention". Congratulations and excellent work! 

December

• Sarah Snyder successfully defends her PhD thesis titled "Biological Applications of Surfaces with Extreme Wettabilities". Congratulations!

March

• Kevin and Mathew's work on Designing Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Exceptional Mechanical Durability gets published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Fantastic work!

• Chao and Mathew's work on Open-channel, water-in-oil emulsification in paper-based microfluidic devices is published in Lab on a Chip. Congratulations! 

• Kevin Golovin successfully defends his PhD thesis titled "Design and Application of Surfaces with Tunable Adhesion to Liquids and Solids" ! Congratulations and awesome work!

May

• Congratulations to Mathew for winning the award for Best Poster at the 41st Annual Symposium American Vacuum Society for his presentation of our recent publication, Rational Design of Hyperbranched Nanowire Systems for Tunable Superomniphobic Surfaces Enabled by Atomic Layer Deposition.

August

• Congratulations Kevin on accepting a professorship at the Mechanical Engineering department at University of British Columbia, Okanagen! All the best!

September

• Catherine successfully advances to candidacy! Well done!  

• Congratulations Mathew on being selected as a Macro Fall 2017 PPG Fellow!

• Kevin's paper on "A predictive framework for the design and fabrication of icephobic polymers" gets published in Science Advances. Great work!

October

• Mathew wins Silver Award for Oral Presentation on "Designing Self-Healing Superhydrophobic Surfaces with Exceptional Mechanical Durability" at the 2nd Annual Materials Research Symposium. Congratulations!

• Congratulations to Mathew and Catherine on winning the PPG Best Poster Award in Polymer Engineering and PPG Best Invited Poster in Polymer Engineering, respectively, during the 2017 Macro Symposium.

November

• Catherine wins second prize for Functional Materials Research at the Engineering Graduate Symposium. Well done!

January

• Dr. An Zou joins the group from Syracuse University. Welcome An!

• Sarah's (and Kevin's) image is chosen for the MSE 2016 calendar. Great work guys!

March

• Kevin's work on Designing Durable Icephobic Surfaces is published in Science Advances! It has already been featured in over 100 news sources. Check out MConneX's video or some of the press releases! Great job Kevin, Duck Hyun and Eddie!

• The PSI group attended the 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Diego, Mar 13-17th. Ethan, Kevin, and Matt gave talks on their work in the Applications of Polymer Surfaces and Interfaces Symposium, as follows: Ethan: Selective Wettability Membranes: Design and Implementation. Matt: Smooth, all-solid, omniphobic surfaces. Kevin: Designing durable icephobic surfaces.

• Ethan becomes a doctoral candidate. Excellent work! 

April

• Congratulations to Kevin, Sarah, and Matt, winning team members in the 2016 Patagonia Eco Innovation Case competition! 

June

• Chao, Matt and Sarah's work on Paper-Based Surfaces with Extreme Wettabilities for Novel, Open-Channel Microfluidic Devices is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Excellent work guys!! 

• Kevin's review paper on Bioinspired surfaces for turbulent drag reduction is published in a special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Congrats!

October

• Dr. Duck Hyun Lee moves on to a position at Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). Thanks for the outstanding work, Dr. Lee, we wish you all the best!

• Congratulations to Sarah for winning an award for Best Presentation at the 6th Annual Biomaterials Day at Case Western for her presentation of our recent publication, Paper-Based Surfaces with Extreme Wettabilities for Novel, Open-Channel Microfluidic Devices. 

November

• Dr. Chao Li moves to a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We wish him the best!

• Matt's work on Rational Design of Hyperbranched Nanowire Systems for Tunable Superomniphobic Surfaces Enabled by Atomic Layer Deposition was published in ACS Nano. Congratulations, and thank-you to the Dasgupta group for their collaboration!

December

• Dr. An Zou moves on to a research scientist position at Syracuse University. Thanks for all the great work!

January

• Dr. Inseong You joins the group after receiving his PhD from KAIST. Welcome Inseong!

April

• Sarah receives an NSF graduate fellowship. Awesome work Sarah!

May

• Charlotte Xia graduates with a BS and is off to Stanford. Great work Charlotte. Steven Walker receives his Master's Degree and will be joining Hygratek.

• Dr. Tuteja is awarded the MSE Departmental Teaching Award. Way to go Anish!

July

• Dr. Tuteja achieves tenure and is now an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Great job Anish!

• Catherine Snyder joins the group after receiving her BS from the University of Florida. Welcome Catherine!

August

• Sai successfully defends his thesis work. He's accepted an offer at Intel Corporation. Great work Dr. Kobaku, we wish you all the best!

September

• Two new Master's students, Omkar Gupte and Rhythm Jain, join the group. Welcome guys!

December

• Kevin wins the Gore Fellows Silver Level Award. Congrats Kevin! 

• Matt becomes a doctoral candidate. Nicely done Matt!

January

• Kevin's image is selected for the 2014 MSE calendar.

March

• Dr. Tuteja is awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. Great job Anish! 

April

• Ethan is awarded an NSF graduate fellowship. Way to go Ethan!

• Kevin is awarded an NDSEG fellowship. Nicely done Kevin! 

August

• Gibum successfully defends his dissertation. Wish him luck at his Post-doc at MIT!

October

• Sarah Snyder joins the group after receiving her bachelors degree from Rutgers University. Welcome Sarah!

• Kevin wins the best post in polymer engineering at the 38th Macromolecular Science and Engineering Symposium. Way to go Kevin! 

• Sai wins the prestigious Frank E. Filisko Award for Outstanding Overall Poster at the 38th Macromolecular Science and Engineering Symposium. Amazing job Sai!

November

• Kevin wins best poster at the University of Michigan's Engineering Graduate Symposium. Nicely done Kevin! 

December

• Raghu accepts an offer by Momentive Inc. in Bangalore. Good luck Raghu!

• Kevin's image is selected as a finalist in the Science as Art competition at MRS 2014. 

October

• Ethan Post joins the group after receiving his undergraduate degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Welcome Ethan!

• Mathew Boban joins the group after receiving his undergraduate degree from Cornell University. Welcome Matt!

November

• Kevin's poster on transparent superomniphobic surfaces wins best poster at the University of Michigan's Engineering Graduate Symposium. Congrats Kevin! 

December

• Kevin becomes a doctoral candidate. Great job Kevin! 

• Kevin and Duck Hyun's work is published in Angewandte Chemie. Check it out here!