The aramid nanofiber-reinforced carbon nanotube mat with the exceptional protective performance we developed has received the 2022 WARF Innovation Award. Congratulations to Dr. Jizhe Cai, a postdoctoral research associate, who co-invented this with Prof. Thevamaran. …
Year: 2022
Our lab was featured on News 3 Now for the protective helmet liner material we are developing
Dr. Komal Chawla, a postdoctoral research associate, and Abhishek Gupta, a graduate student, of our lab along with Professor R. Thevamaran discussed their new carbon nanotube-based material with Arman Rahman for News 3.
Our invention of aramid nano fiber reinforced carbon nanotube mats have been selected as finalist for the 2022 WARF Innovation Awards
Congratulations to Dr. Jizhe Cai, a postdoctoral research associate, in our lab for his work that has been selected as one of the top six inventions out of over 360 inventions last year, for the …
Congratulations to Komal and Abhishek for their work on architected carbon nanotube foams published in Extreme Mechanics Letters
Congratulations to our postdoctoral research associate Dr. Komal Chawla and graduate student Abhishek Gupta for their work on architected carbon nanotube foams that exhibit unusual synergistic enhancement of mechanical properties that are desirable for protective …
Congratulations to Claire Griesbach for receiving the Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Award
Congratulations to Claire Griesbach for receiving the Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Award as one of the 44 outstanding graduate student awardees.
Professor Thevamaran Receives 2022 Early Career Faculty Award from NASA
This prestigious early career award will support our work developing advanced composite materials with exceptional mechanical properties and thermal stability for dimensionally stable structural components to be used in future large telescopes and space structures.
Our Research is featured in On Wisconsin magazine’s Fall 2022 issue
The article can be seen here: https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/on_campus/better-than-bulletproof/
Our paper on Exceptional-point-based accelerometers with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio is published in Nature
Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Jizhe Cai and our collaborators from Wesleyan University, Rodion Kononchuk, Fred Ellis, and Tsampikos Kottos, for getting our work published in Nature.
We were featured on Spectrum News 1: Team at UW Madison creates material six times tougher than Kevlar
Our lab has been featured on Spectrum News 1 with our recent invention of a nano fibrous mats that is superior to other conventional and nanostructured protective materials. Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Jizhe Cai who …
New lightweight super material can battle bullets, deflect space debris
Our recent study on carbon nanotube mats reinforced with kevlar nanofibers published on ACS Nano has been highlighted in a UW-Madison article and several news outlets.