Assistant Professor | Chemical Engineering | @universityofRI | Responsive, multifunctional soft materials š³ļøāš (he/him)
Joined November 2019
- Tweets 271
- Following 638
- Followers 1,008
- Likes 1,403
59 Photos and videos
1 Nov 2024
Some seasonal decorations from our group and those from @RoxburyLab @IAndreuNano !
Their decorating skills far surpass mine (but yes, thatās me on the bat!)
1
3
15
766
Ryan Poling-Skutvik retweeted
1 Nov 2024
Hub Grantee Spotlight š” @URIEngineering has been awarded a grant to conduct a proof-of-concept study on synthetic materials for drug delivery, aiming to streamline evaluation processes & potentially reduce reliance on traditional animal testing. š¬
1
1
208
25 Oct 2024
Thanks to @RILifeSciHub for supporting some of our work creating biomimetic hydrogels and investigating how nanotherapeutics transport in cell-laden networks!
23 Oct 2024
ICYMI ā¼ļø The Hub recently awarded grants to 14 organizations to fuel research and workforce development in RI's life sciences sector. Stay tuned to learn more about how these grantees are driving innovation and growth in our state! šš¬š§¬
2
12
1,431
23 Oct 2024
And so begins another 1 week of this image burning into my phone screen every time I need to find a talk.
See you all soon at #AIChE!
1
14
463
18 Sep 2024
Just in time for fall, some of our slimy, drippy, some might even say spooky gels featured on the cover of @softmatter!
Highlight our work by @Elnaz_NM, identifying yielding and fracturing motifs in colloidal gels: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artiā¦
3
5
42
1,692
17 Sep 2024
š°New paper out today with @N0tAChemb0t!
We synthesized some incredibly effective rheological modifiers that gel emulsions and achieve moduli of ~1kPa at <1wt%.
These mechanics arise from bottlebrush midblocks that promote bridging and reduce looping.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsā¦
1
4
43
1,735
17 Sep 2024
We show that the rate elastic growth in these systems is related to the relative bridging fraction. Although we still can't directly quantify bridging density, this approach is one of the first experimental techniques to gain insight into bridging density in complex fluids.
1
155
17 Sep 2024
Some excellent synthetic work by our team of (not-on-twitter) graduate students and the first of hopefully many papers coming out of our Rhode Island polymers team!
147
11 Sep 2024
When your partner goes āwell I assume you got this word firstā and then you have to admit that you didnāt even think of it and maybe he knows your research better than you doā¦ šš
3
28
1,308
5 Sep 2024
Proud of my alma mater @cooperunion for returning to full tuition scholarships! š
Because of these scholarships, students can excel inside and outside of the classroom unlike anywhere else in higher education
3 Sep 2024
The first day of the semester at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York on Tuesday came with a surprise for its college seniors.
Their tuition for the year will be free. nyti.ms/3AYE9Ea
1
169
Well actually...
Peanut Butter is a liquid. We said what we said.
Community note
Peanut butter is technically a Bingham Plastic (a subset of non-Newtonian fluids), but under ASTM D4359-90 it is classified as a liquid, not a solid. The TSA considers the nut spread a liquid, but is unrestricted if it is a sandwich ingredient.
chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Orā¦
kelid1.ir/FilesUp/ASTM_Sā¦
twitter.com/AskTSA/status/ā¦
7
26
3,756
25 Jun 2024
Glad to see this published the same day I presented it at #ACSColloids!
We designed gels with identical linear rheology but with different interactions. They exhibit distinct nonlinear failure modes and thixotropy
Great work by @Elnaz_NM
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artiā¦
1
33
1,058
22 May 2024
Fantastic!
URI is innovating across biomedical and engineering fields, especially in workforce development and providing direct support (i.e., paid!) for disadvantaged students to gain the necessary skills to enter these positions.
Glad to see state support come through!
21 May 2024
NEW: In front of a room of hundreds of biotech, education, and business leaders, Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi confirmed that funding for the University of Rhode Islandās proposed life sciences building āwill be in the budgetā this year.
@BostonGlobe
bostonglobe.com/2024/05/21/mā¦
1
3
403
22 May 2024
See some of our other @NIH-supported initiatives:
URI ESTEEMED: web.uri.edu/esteemed
MARC U*STAR: web.uri.edu/marc
1
112
19 Apr 2024
Itās impossible to address these inequities without accurate data.
Disappointed to see this obstruction but glad that the community is holding agencies accountable.
Thank you @freemanjb for your work on this.
18 Apr 2024
The agency who generates official diversity statistics for the US scientific workforce was forced to give up its pilot data, which show it's been misrepresenting its data to avoid adding LGBTQ questions. @NCSESgov is obstructing LGBTQ equity in science. science.org/doi/10.1126/scieā¦
1
2
13
2,110
14 Apr 2024
Our lab has a new toy to begin testing the performance of our complex fluids as 3D printing inks.
Thanks to @Dr_COB for help designing this set up, which was built completely by a team of undergrads sponsored by @URIEngineering!
1
31
1,017
10 Apr 2024
.@RIPTA_RI bus service to our universities is essential to growing our workforce, meeting student needs, and increasing access to education for communities across the state. We should be expanding service to the university not cutting!
10 Apr 2024
In other RIPTA news, the agency is adding another community meeting about revised proposed service changes. This one will be at the University of Rhode Island Memorial Student Union in Kingston on April 19 from noon to 2 pm.
5
658
5 Apr 2024
Excited to announce the inaugural Queer Science night in collaboration with Youth Pride focusing on getting our hands messy with soft materials and building STEM identities in LGBTQ youth!
Providence locals, stop by and say hi!
More details: fb.me/e/1KCp28ALY
2
154