Our first-year PhD students Xi Wan and Lucas Pham have just presented their first posters at the 2nd Annual Context, Connections, and Community Symposium (C3S)Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering . Congrats!

Congratulations to Paolo Ramos!🥳 His paper titled "In situ Investigation of the Rheological and Dielectric Properties of a Cross-linking Carbon Nanotube-Thermosetting Epoxy" was accepted yesterday for publication in Soft Matter! 🧑‍🔬Check this out：pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Congratulations to Paolo Ramos, Borges Liu and Jeff on their paper titled "A Review of the Shear Rheology of Carbon Black Suspensions"!! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Richards lab attended the ChBE department 5K run/3K walk last Saturday and won a "Best in show highest% participation" prize!! Yeah🥳

The Richards lab hosted a rheology workshop as a part of the soft matter journal club summer tutorial series last week. We gave a short lecture on rheological techniques and provided fun in-lab demos with ketchup and honey.

The Richards Lab hits the trails! We took a brief hiatus from rheology to explore the wilderness of Devil's Lake, Wisconsin!

Borges, Matt, and Kush presented their poster "X-ray Scattering Techniques to Probe Structure and Dynamics of Soft Matter" at the 2023 Northwestern Synchrotron Research Center User Meeting!

It was an amazing symposium and fantastic cohort! Very honored to be a part of the program this year!

Congrats to Matt, Alina Alina Arslanova, PhD, and Xi for attending the 2024 MRSEC Annual Meeting today! NU-MRSEC Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering

A fond farewell to Dr. Alina Arslanova, PhD as she ventures to her new position in Leuven, Belgium. She has left a profound impact on our lab and our members. We wish her the best in her future endeavors.

Well...Happy Spring Break!!

Celebrating the solar eclipse with the group! #Eclipse2024

Congratulations to Kush Kush Patel on receiving the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award (SCGSR). Through this award, he will conduct research at Argonne National Laboratory on 'Linking the Dynamics of Colloidal Gels to Elasticity using XPCS'!

Congratulations to Yoshita Gupta on successfully defending her master's thesis "Understanding Microstructure of Carbon Black Suspended in Polymer Solutions and in Battery Slurries with Rheo-Electric Measurements"! 🎓🥳Cheers to this major milestone and her bright future ahead!🤩

Wait for our group's first Dr.-to-be Paolo Ramos to come out 45 minutes-ish later!😁

Congratulations freshman Victor Jia from Chemistry for being awarded a Weinberg summer research grant!🥳

Congratulations to undergrad Wesley Ho who presented at this Spring's Undergraduate Research Symposium today at the Norris Center!😄

Congratulations to Paolo Ramos on successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis "Engineering the Structure and Electrical Behavior of Carbon Black Suspensions." Paolo will be starting his new job at L'Oréal in New Jersey. Best wishes for continued success in this new chapter, Paolo!😊

Congratulations to Borges Liu on starting an internship with Intel in Arizona for the upcoming summer! Good luck!

Check it out! Exciting things cooking in collaboration with Richards Lab @NU