7/2022 – Prof. Bartlett was a guest on Science Friday discussing Octa-glove, our octopus-inspired underwater adhesive skin, from our Science Advances paper.
4/2021 – Prof. Bartlett presents at MRS and chairs a session on novel soft composites.
4/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at Texas Tech in Mechanical Engineering.
4/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited presentation at the 2021 ACS Spring Meeting in the Fundamentals of Polymer Mechanics session.
3/2021 – Prof. Bartlett receives the ICTAS Junior Faculty Award. VT news story.
3/2021 – Dohgyu receives the 2021 Adhesion Society Distinguished Paper Award for his work on Programmable Adhesion.
2/2021 – Dohgyu, Ted, Haque, and Ravi present at the 2021 Adhesion Society meeting. Prof. Bartlett gave a keynote presentation and co-organized/chaired a session on the 50th anniversary of the JKR theory.
12/2020 – Dohgyu receives the Peebles Award from the Adhesion Society.
11/2020 – Prof. Bartlett was a guest on the Soft Robotics Podcast. You can listen to the conversation on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and other podcast providers.
8/2020 – Ted receives a Journeyman Fellowship through the Army Research Lab and ORAU.
8/2020 -The Soft Materials and Structures lab moves to Virginia Tech!
7/2020 – Lin successfully defends her PhD!
7/2020 – Ravi successfully defends his PhD!
7/2020 – Dohgyu successfully defends his Masters!
6/2020 – Prof. Bartlett and Rob Style write an editorial titledIntroduction to Liquid Composites as guest editors for the special Soft Matter issue on ‘Liquid Composites.’ See the collection here.
6/2020 – Haque receives a Postdoctoral Seed Grant from the Graduate College at Iowa State.
3/2020 – Dohgyu receives the Research Excellence Award from the Graduate College. Read more here.
3/2020 – Haque, Ravi, Dohgyu, and Ted present at the Midwest Graduate Student Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Symposium.
2/2020 – Prof. Bartlett receives the Early Career Scientist Award from the Adhesion Society.
2/2020 – Ravi receives the Alan Gent Distinguished Student Award from the Adhesion Society. Read more here.
2/2020 – Dohgyu, Ravi, and Prof. Bartlett attend and present at the Adhesion Society in Charleston, SC. Prof. Bartlett co-organized and co-chaired a session on Soft Materials for Soft Technology.
1/2020 – Dohgyu receives the Brown Graduate Fellowship.
1/2020 – Sarah is awarded the Dean’s High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research to support her research in the lab.
2019
12/2019 – Ravi wins two awards. The Research Excellence Award from the Graduate College and the Peebles Award from the Adhesion Society.
11/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at the University of Illinois in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering.
11/2019 – Our lab hosted Science Bound students for a Saturday morning outreach event with our soft robotic gripper kits and new slingshot activity.
11/2019 – Haque and Prof. Bartlett give presentations at the IMECE in Salt Lake City.
11/2019 – Prof. Bartlett receives a NASA Iowa Space Grant Early Career Investigator Research Grant.
10/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at Virginia Tech in the Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII).
8/2019 – Prof. Bartlett is invited to be a guest editor for a special issue on ‘Liquid Composites’ for the journal Soft Matter.
8/2019 – Our lab receives a Regents Innovation Fund (RIF) grant to develop active materials for advanced mechanical systems.
7/2019 – Doh-Gyu and Prof. Bartlett present posters at the Adhesion GRC. Doh-Gyu also give a presentation at the Adhesion GRS and is elected the 2020 GRS Co-Chair!
2/2019 – Ravi, Doh-Gyu, and Prof. Bartlett present at the 2019 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Hilton Head, SC. Prof. Bartlett chairs a session and serves as Chair of the Soft Adhesives Division.
