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Stefan's on a roll with a new paper published in Nature Materials!

October 5, 2023

Article Congratulations to the international collaborative team on this fantastic publication!

Press release : "To prove the stability of the plastron, the researchers put the surface through the ringer — bending it, twisting it, blasting it with hot and cold water, and abrading it with sand and steel to block the surface remaining aerophilic. It survived 208 days submerged in water and hundreds of dunks in a...

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Dr. Haichao Wu receives the prestigious 2023 Viktor K. LaMer Award!

May 24, 2023
What an amazing accomplishment! The LaMer Award in Colloids and Surface Science is given to one individual per year for excellent PhD theses, and is presented at the ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium. Through his graduate research, Haichao has advanced our understanding of nanoparticle transport in porous media through a combination of theoretical fluid dynamics and experimental approaches. Read more about his work and award here. Read more about Dr. Haichao Wu receives the prestigious 2023 Viktor K. LaMer Award!
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Bravo Stefan and coauthors on the latest cover article in Langmuir on anti-fouling materials and their benefit for heat-transfer

April 19, 2023

A fantastic collaboration with the Energy Transport Laboratory of Prof. Solomon Adera at Univeristy of Michigan. 

Article "Recently, micro/nanostructured oil-impregnated surfaces have been shown to significantly reduce biofouling, which decreases the overall heat exchange in heat exchangers operating in marine environments. By conducting field and laboratory studies supported by...

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Joanna receives ACS award in Colloidal Chemistry!

March 29, 2023

The award was given to Joanna at this year's American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2023 meeting in Indianapolis, IN & hybrid. Congratulations, Joanna! It was great to meet with so many Aizenberg Lab alumni and friends! 

Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures

Congratulations on our latest Nature paper on Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures

May 23, 2022
Check out our latest work on liquid crystal elastomeric micropillars that can exhibit complex dynamic pattern evolution and collective communication in arrays when exposed to light (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04561-z#article-info) and this amazing view paper about Light moves artificial cilia to a complex beat (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01080-9).  Read more about Congratulations on our latest Nature paper on Self-regulated non-reciprocal motions in single-material microstructures
Dryscreen: Creating Human-Centered Comfort in Buildings

Dryscreen Technology from Aizenberg Lab Creating Human-Centered Comfort in Buildings

May 23, 2022

Our lab's Dryscreen technology, which decouples dehumidification from cooling to enable more energy efficient air cooling, is now supported by Harvard climate change solutions fund. A collaboration between SEAS and GSD members in our lab! Check out the article!! https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/harvard-awards-1-3m-to-fund-climate-change-solutions/

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Controlling Liquid Crystal Orientations for Programmable Anisotropic Transformations in Cellular Microstructures (Adv. Mater. 42/2021)

Our recent research featured a cover picture on Advanced Materials!!

February 15, 2022

Our recent research on "Controlling Liquid Crystal Orientations for Programmable Anisotropic Transformations in Cellular Microstructures" have featured a cover picture on Advanced Materials (https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.1002/adma.202170327). 

In article number 2105024, Joanna Aizenberg, Katia Bertoldi, and co-workers report that by programming independently anisotropy at the molecular and structural levels, unprecedented director-determined symmetry...

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