SMaRT #rheoschool starts! Special badges for organizers (with our hobbies😊I have a yogi)

Cheesecake #ChemistWhoCook

Pleased to share with you our last publication (and the core of my PhD Thesis): Laser Sintering of Self-Healable and Recyclable Thermoset Networks sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today I woke up as a Dr. ir.👩‍🎓

First postdoc day at Northwestern!

Hi everyone! We are the Richards Lab Northwestern Engineering and this the start of our Twitter! Stay tuned for updates!

We are excited to share our recent paper "Evaluating the Rheo-electric Performance of Aqueous Suspensions of Oxidized Carbon Black"! Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis…

Our Borges Liu gave an exciting talk this week at the AIChE Midwest Conference on his recently published work "Obtaining Structural Information of Carbon Black in Carbon Black/Polyvinylidene Difluoride Suspensions with Rheo-Electric Measurements" (doi.org/10.1122/8.0000…)!

Congratulations to Dr. Julie Hipp, Dr. Jeffrey Richards and Dr. Norman Wagner Wagner Lab @ UDel for winning the 2023 JoR best paper award for "Direct measurements of the microstructural origin of shear-thinning in carbon black suspensions"! doi.org/10.1122/8.0000…

Nice walk outside before Borges departs for his internship at Oak Ridge National Lab where he will work on designing a new sample environment for neutron scattering!

Thank you Professor Osuji Chinedum Osuji for the inspiring talk and discussion! Northwestern Chemical & Biological Engineering

Congratulations to Matt, Alina Alina Arslanova, PhD and Carrie for publishing their article named "Electroless Deposition of Silver onto Silica Nanoparticles to Produce Lipophilic Core-Shell Nanoparticles" in JCIS! doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis…

Warmer weather now for brunch and we are looking forward to seeing Yoshita again after she finishes her internship this summer at Rivian!

Our paper "Sideways propelled bimetallic rods at the water/oil interface" was just accepted in Soft Matter ! DOI: 10.1039/D3SM00466J

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!

Our back cover in Soft Matter ! Big appreciation to Gabor Szabo for creating this beautiful image!

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