Check out this work led by Faye Yap and Daniel J Preston from Rice University Mechanical Engineering on necrobotics. Congrats Preston Innovation Lab on another paper being published and thanks for involving me in this cool work!

Congrats to our undergraduate researchers! @leightxnless and Gerardo Vega were recognized for "Overall Excellence in Poster Presentation" at the Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Damian Gonzalez won "Best Undergraduate Poster" at the SCI Colloquium.

Check out our work in PNASNews on logic-enabled textiles: electronics-free garments with memory, decision-making, and comfortable human interaction! Anoop Rajappan Rice Engineering and Computing #wearable #robotics pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A wearable device that extracts power during walking is a comfortable alternative to devices with bulky power supplies for adults with upper body limitations. #Engineering #WearableTech fcld.ly/p7x7gg4

Now in Science Advances: our lightweight, wearable textile-based system harvests and stores pneumatic energy during walking to power assistive devices. Preston Innovation Lab Rice Engineering and Computing #wearable #robotics science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

For all the talk about embedding computers in clothing, here’s an interesting option: make the clothing the computer and do it without electricity. Rice engineers Daniel J Preston Barclay Jumet and Anoop Rajappan are trying that concept on for size. 🔗 bit.ly/3AyZAbb

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Combined analog and digital fluidic circuits simplify the control of #soft #robots without any electronics! Our paper in PNASNews was led by Rice University Mechanical Engineering & Preston Innovation Lab undergrad researcher Colter Decker in collaboration with Harvard Chemistry. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Congrats Faye Yap on being selected for the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering workshop at Stanford University! Thanks Wendy Gu and Allison Okamura for organizing! mech.rice.edu/news/rice-doct…

Congrats Faye Yap on winning the poster presentation prize at @IWIBIT2022! We had a great time discussing #necrobotics, learning about others' work, and taking in Edinburgh & Royal Society of Edinburgh. Grateful for the invitation to give a talk.

Both Faye Yap and Anoop Rajappan had their work featured in the most recent issue of ASME.org Mechanical Engineering magazine, with stories on each of their papers only separated by a few pages!

These containers from the lab of Daniel J Preston can keep volatile organic compounds from accumulating on the surfaces of stored nanomaterials. Read via Rice University News: bit.ly/3NYD2aq

Glad to share our work on mitigating contamination using nanotextured container wall as the adsorbing medium! The paper is out now in Nano Letters . Thanks Daniel J Preston and my labmates Preston Innovation Lab for all of your supports throughout this project.

Congrats Rawand M Rasheed on defending your PhD in Rice University Mechanical Engineering today! Our first Preston Innovation Lab PhD graduate has been awarded a two-year @CRIstartup fellowship to continue to develop his company: helixearthtechnologies.com

Congrats to Barclay on the new publication in Device!

Congratulations Marquise @quisebell on the publication of this cool work! 🥳Check out the thermally self-decontaminating wearable materials here: doi.org/10.1021/acsami…

We always check out the creative ideas featured in the #IgNobel Prize ceremony, and several of our "research role models" have won in the past... We're excited to join them! Congrats to Faye Yap and the necrobotics team! doi.org/10.1002/advs.2…

Great to see our recent Nano Letters paper by Zhen Liu and the Preston Innovation Lab highlighted by ASME.org! These ultra clean #nano-textured containers prevent contamination.

The Rice University Mechanical Engineering NHTL and Preston Innovation Lab show Teflon AF–coated nanotextured aluminum surfaces for "jumping droplet" thermal rectification in our new paper published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Making the decision on whether to cure at high or low temperatures when fabricating a soft device🔥❄️? Read our work to understand how temperature affects the curing speed for Pt-catalyzed silicone elastomers!