Ameya has been selected by the Graduate Dean’s Awards Advisory Committee to represent Michigan Tech in the national competition of the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Gao’s paper entitled “Controlling the Release of Hydrogen Peroxide from Catechol-Based Adhesive Using Silica Nanoparticle” has been accepted for publication in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.

Our review article entitled “Biomimetic hydrogels with spatial- and temporal-controlled chemical cues for tissue engineering” was accepted for publication in Biomaterials Science. This is a collaboration with Dr. Rajachar.

Hao Meng’s paper entitled “Biomimetic recyclable microgels for on-demand generation of hydrogen peroxide and antipathogenic application” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2018.10.037) was highlighted in Biomedical Beat Blog of the National Institute of General Medical Science.

Our publication entitled “In Situ Deactivation of Catechol-Containing Adhesive Using Electrochemistry” that was recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society was highlighted in multiple news outlets.

An article in Materials Today entitled “Underwater glue unstuck with electric jolt” highlighted Saleh’s recent publication in JACS (https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b11266).

Saleh and Dr. Lee attended the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Lee gave an oral presentation entitled “Tuning the ROS Release from Catechol-containing Bioadhesive.” Saleh was a finalist for the Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science and gave an oral presentation entitled “In Situ Deactivation […]

Saleh’s paper entitled “In-Situ Deactivation of Catechol-Containing Adhesive using Electrochemistry” was accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Zhongtian’s paper entitled “Iron Magnetic Nanoparticle-Induced ROS Generation from Catechol-Containing Microgel for Environmental and Biomedical Applications” was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Our review paper entitled “Catechol-Functionalized Hydrogels: Biomimetic Design, Adhesion Mechanism, and Biomedical Applications” was accepted for publication in Chemical Society Reviews.