This amazing innovation from Rice University kills viruses and cuts down on pollution from single-use gloves. Excellent work, @quisebell, Daniel J Preston and all who made this a reality, including U.S. National Science Foundation, The Welch Foundation, NASA and the GEM Fellowship! bit.ly/45Q58g0

Projects by Faye Yap and @quisebell of Preston Innovation Lab have been covered in back-to-back issues of C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)! Check out their talks at Society of Engineering Science #SES2023 next week, and meet them at the inaugural #SES2023 Future Faculty Symposium on Oct 10 organized by Kejie Zhao and Nanshu Lu @ UT-Austin.

The Preston Innovation Lab had a great time at Society of Engineering Science #SES2023! We had five talks and two posters featuring Faye Yap, Vi Vo, @quisebell, and Barclay Jumet.

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.

Mechanical engineers in Rice University’s Preston Innovation Lab have created containers that can keep volatile organic compounds from accumulating on the surfaces of stored nanomaterials:

I’ve now been featured twice in InnovationMap!

Congrats Rawand M Rasheed on the publication of your paper on multiplexed inertial coalescence filters with Preston Innovation Lab! Rawand's company, Helix Earth Technologies (currently at Greentown Labs in #Houston), is hiring for multiple engineering roles. doi.org/10.1080/027868…

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…

Nice job today by Preston Innovation Lab's Adam Broshkevitch defending his MS thesis in Rice University Mechanical Engineering today!

Another successful MS defense in Rice University Mechanical Engineering from a Preston Innovation Lab member this spring - congratulations, Evan!

Congrats Irfan Zobayed on your successful MS defense in Rice University Mechanical Engineering - the third from Preston Innovation Lab this spring!

Congrats Zhen Liu on winning the Rice University Mechanical Engineering Research Excellence Award! Pictured here giving a special seminar to the department in recognition of the award.

We show fluidic diodes made from lightweight flexible sheets, including #textiles, in a paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems published last week. Beyond simply enforcing one-way flow, they enable #logic, encoding, and rectification. doi.org/10.1002/aisy.2…

Happy to share our work led by Anoop Rajappan on fluidic resistors made from soft porous foams for embedded sensing and control in #softrobots and #wearables, out today in Wiley-VCH Advanced Functional Materials: doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2…

Two covers from Rice University Mechanical Engineering in the same issue of Advanced Intelligent Systems! Our work from Preston Innovation Lab on sheet-based fluidic diodes and collaborative work on multiscale haptics led by Dr. Marcie O'Malley's MAHI lab were both selected for covers in the July issue. engineering.rice.edu/news/rice-labs…

In new work from Preston Innovation Lab in Langmuir, we go beyond the Washburn relationship: inverse design & additive manufacturing produce wicking materials with atypical fluid propagation for low-cost diagnostics, thermal management, and more. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.

Helix Earth, a clean-tech company started by Rice alumnus Rawand Rasheed ’23, has secured $5.6 million in seed funding. This investment will help accelerate the development of retrofit devices to reduce energy consumption in air-conditioning systems. engineering.rice.edu/news/clean-tec…

Recent Preston Innovation Lab & Rice University Mechanical Engineering PhD grad Rawand M Rasheed '23 was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30! His company Helix Earth is lowering power bills and saving energy for AC systems. #ForbesUnder30 forbes.com/profile/rawand…