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Congratulations Max!

Dr. Max Tepermeister successfully defended his PhD thesis “Ionic and Chemical Systems Modeling”. He’ll be starting this fall as the Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech.

Regulating Hydrogel Stiffness with Electric Fields

Work led by the newly minted Dr. Cai is now published in Materials Horizons. In “Regulating hydrogel mechanical properties with an electric field,” Dr. Cai designs a gel that is stable despite having strong saloplasticity (getting 5x stiffer when all of the salt is removed) and then shows how external electric fields can be used […]