Shifeng and Myoeum's work on polymers with reversible bonds has been published Physical Review Letters as front cover article, representing a huge discovery that challenges 30-year-old dogma in associative polymers research. Congratulations to Shifeng and Myoeum!
Jinchang's work on voxelated bioprinting has been published in Advanced Functional Materials and featured as the Front Cover! Congratulations to Jinchang!
Shifeng and Jinchang work on 3D printable soft elastoemrs has been published in Chemistry of Materials and featured as the Front Cover! Congratulations to Shifeng and Jinchang!
STRETCHING POSSIBILITIES: RESEARCHER IMAGINES SUPER RUBBER, AND HAS A STRATEGY TO MAKE IT
In a work featured in 2021 Soft Matter Emerging Investigators issue, we discover a new regime in which the extensibility of bottlebrush polymer networks is inversely proportional to the network stiffness.
Our group receives ACS Petroleum Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award. Congratulations to all!
This award would not be possible without the hard work from all Cai Lab members, especially Shifeng and Zihao, the support from UVA, senior mentors, and, most notably, Dr. Andy Lovinger!
Our first paper on linear-bottlebrush-linear polymer self-assembly is published in ACS Macro Letters! Congratulations to Shifeng and Zihao! And thanks the collaboration with Jian Qin group at Stanford!
Prof. Cai received Virginia Catalyst Award on a collaborative research studying how polymer coatings help prevent catheter associated infections.
Dr. Shifeng Nian joins SBML as a postdoc! Shifeng is an expert in organic chemistry. In SBML Lab he will be working on 3D printable polymers. Welcome Shifeng!
Two undergraduates, Brandon Phan and Sneha Ravi, win nanoSTAR summer research fellowship. Thanks for the generous support from nanoSTAR, and congratulations to Bandon and Sneha!
Soft Biomatter Laboratory (SBML) welcomes Zihao Gong, a Ph.D. student in MSE! Zihao obtained his B.S. from East China University of Science and Technology and M.S. from University of Akron. He will study 3D printable, soft yet 'dry' polymers. Welcome Zihao!
SMBL is officially open on January 3, 2018!
We are located at the second floor of newly constructed Wilsdorf Hall.
A state-of-art Leica SP8 arrives at Wilsdorf Hall and installation starts!
Liheng visited Institute of Physics at Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing and gave a talk. Thanks Prof. Ming Li and Prof. Fangfu Ye for hosting!
Liheng visited Department of Chemistry at Peking University and gave a department seminar. Thanks Prof. Dehai Liang for hosting!
