Category: Center News

Kody Whisnant and Alain Kadar have been awarded from 2024 BI Research Day! Congratulations!

A team of Prof. Kotov had a lot of fun kicking off the ‘Complex Particle Design and Applications’ session of the 2024 UMich Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium, discussing the work in Kotov Lab to quantify the structural complexity of network materials using a graph theoretical approach!

The team of Prof. Lahann and Prof. Pena-Francesch have developed a flexible screen inspired by squids that can store and display encrypted images using magnetic fields instead of electronics. This innovative device allows images to be revealed publicly with a standard magnet or kept private using a complex magnetic array that acts as an encryption Continue Reading »

Assistant Professor Prashant Kumar, a part of COMPASS last year, has been recognized as a winner of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) Asia-Pacific 2024 award. This prestigious honour celebrates the top 35 innovators under age 35 making a significant impact in their fields within the Asia Pacific region.

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Polymer filtration films are used in water purification to separate impurities from drinking water. My research investigates how the films’ irregular architecture (i.e., structure and thickness) affects how well they work. Here, 3D renderings of polymer films resemble land surfaces and star constellations. I used a 3D thickness map to illustrate a hot, mountainous planet Continue Reading »

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Join us in congratulating our fearless leader on being named the prestigious ACS 2025 Peter Debye Award recipient! Prof. Sharon Glotzer is recognized for her innovative contributions to the theory, modeling, and simulation of colloidal particles for self-assembly.

The Foundations of Molecular Modeling & Simulation Conference recently awarded Prof. Sharon Glotzer the FOMMS Medal for her fundamental contributions to the development of computational methods for particle assembly. The FOMMS Medal is presented triannually to leaders in the field whose research has made a profound and lasting impact. Here at COMPASS, we greatly benefit Continue Reading »

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E. Sumeyra Turali-Emre is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kotov Lab, Chemical Engineering. Her research focuses on engineering nanoparticles for biomedical applications, including antibacterial activity and capturing extracellular vesicles for disease biomarkers. In addition to her research commitments, she is deeply committed to advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. She Continue Reading »

Nanostructured materials for multispectral optics in extreme conditions

A team of scientists from the University of Michigan, Air Force Research Laboratory, and University of Sao Carlos in Brazil has shown how to create tough and strong nanocomposites with record-high polarization rotation that operate at temperatures exceeding 250º C.