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LAB NEWS
Press Release
High-Tech Printing May Help Eliminate Painful Shots, Rutgers Today (02/04/2020)
4D-Printed Materials Can Be Stiff as Wood or Soft as Sponge, Rutgers Today (03/21/2019)
Tactile Maps, Created by Engineering Students, Help Blind Visitors Navigate Alexander Library,
Rutgers Today (10/12/2018)
3D Printed Smart Gel Can Move on Its Own to Create Artificial Hearts, Engineering 360 (IEEE) (05/18/2018)
Rutgers Researchers Create a 3D-Printed Smart Gel That Walks Underwater, Moves Objects,
Rutgers Today (05/18/2018)
Engineers 3-D Print Shape-Shifting Smart Gel, Science Daily (01/31/2018)
Rutgers Engineers 3D Print Shape-Shifting Smart Gel, Rutgers Today (01/31/2018)
3D Printed Structures “Remember” Their Shapes, MIT News (highlighted on MIT homepage cover) (08/29/2016)
Braille Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired Created with 3-D Printing Technology at Rutgers,
Rutgers Today (02/22/2016)
New Ultrastiff, Ultralight Material Developed, MIT News (featured on MIT's front page) (06/20/2014)
Ultralight, Ultrastiff 3D Printed Materials, Materials Today (06/23/2014)
New Technique Predictably Generates Complex, Wavy Shapes, MIT News (featured on MIT's front page) (05/03/2012)
How to Make Soft, Wavy Structures,, Physics Focus 5, 59 (05/25/2012)
New Technique Generates Predictable Complex, Wavy Shapes: May Explain Brain Folds and Be Useful for Drug Delivery, Science Daily
(05/03/2012)
Group News
2021
[08/04/2021] Our paper on Cephalopod-inspired artificial chromatophores is highlighted by a preview article in Cell Press Matter!
[03/01/2021] We have moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea!
[01/05/2021] Our paper "Multimaterial Printing for Cephalopod-Inspired Light-Responsive Artificial Chromatophores" is published in ACS
Applied Materials & Interfaces!
2020
[10/30/2020] Our paper "4D Printing Reconfigurable, Deployable, and Mechanically Tunable Metamaterials" has been selected as Materials Horizons Outstanding Paper 2019!
[10/30/2020] One of the images from our paper "4D‐Printed Transformable Tube Array for High‐Throughput 3D Cell Culture and Histology" has been selected for "This Month in Pictures" from Advanced Science News!
[09/02/2020] Our group has been selected as an awardee for the 2020 Busch Biomedical Grant Program!
[08/31/2020] Our paper "4D-Printed Transformable Tube Array for High-Throughput Cell Culture and Histology" is published in Advanced
Materials!
[08/21/2020] Our paper "Rapid Processing and Drug Evaluation in Glioblastoma Patient-Derived Organoid Models with 4D Bioprinted Arrays" is published in iScience!
[06/29/2020] Our review paper "Recent Advances in Multi-material Additive Manufacturing: Methods and Applications" is published in Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering!
[06/01/2020] Our paper "4D Printing Reconfigurable, Deployable, and Mechanically Tunable Metamaterials" has been selected as "A Selection of 2019 Articles" (30 articles) in Materials Horizons!
[05/07/2020] Michael Tsai and Om Prabhu have been awarded the NASA sponsored New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Summer
Fellowship. Congratulations!
[05/04/2020] Professor Lee has been selected for the 2019-2020 EGC Student's Professor of the Year Award!
[04/28/2020] Professor Lee gives a virtual department seminar at University of Southern California.
[04/24/2020] Professor Lee gives a virtual department seminar at University of California - Irvine.
[04/15/2020] Michael Philip has been awarded the NASA sponsored New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Research Cluster Fellowship.
Congratulations!
[03/17/2020] Our review paper on multi-material additive manufacturing is accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Chemical
Engineering!
[02/05/2020] Our work has been highlighted in Wiley's Advanced Science News, ACS Sensors, and many other news outlets.
[02/04/2020] Our paper on bio-inspired microneedle array is published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!
2019
[11/26/2019] Daehoon has successfully defended this PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Han!
[11/20/2019] Professor Lee gives an invited talk at Stevens Institute of Technology.
[11/18/2019] Professor Lee gives an invited talk at SUNY Binghamton University.
[10/25/2019] Professor Lee gives an invited talk at Ohio State University.
[07/12/2019] Professor Lee gives an invited talk in 2019 International Young Scientist Forum on Smart Manufacturing and Artificial
Intelligence in Taicang, China.
[07/10/2019] Professor Lee gives an invited talk at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
[06/14/2019] Our group, with Professor Yuebin Guo and NJ SAMPE, hosted NJ Additive Manufacturing Symposium at Rutgers.
[05/29/2019] Our group hosted 2-day 3D Printing Workshop for manufacturing engineers from Colgate-Palmolive.
[04/15/2019] Our paper on 3D printed temperature-responsive hydrogel was selected as the Top 100 Most Accessed Material Science
Articles in 2018 in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!
[04/05/2019] Our work on rapid multi-material 3D printing using dynamic fluidic control is published on Additive Manufacturing. Congratulations!
[03/21/2019] Our work on 4D-printed materials can be stiff as wood or soft as sponge is featured on news media, including
Rutgers Today, and many more!
[03/19/2019] Our paper on 4D printing reconfigurable, deployable and mechanically tunable metamaterials is published in Materials Horizons. Congratulations!
[03/15/2019] Our paper on spatial uncertainty modeling for surface roughness of additively manufactured microstructures is published in Applied Sciences. Congratulations!
[01/18/2019] Chen has received the Best Poster Award at the Northeast Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (NCS) Workshop.
[01/03/2019] Our paper on improving surface roughness of additively manufactured parts is published on Applied Sciences.
2018
[12/03/2018] Our paper has received the Outstanding Paper Award at the World Congress on Micro and Nano Manufacturing (WCMNM) 2018. Congratulations!
[11/30/2018] Our paper on 3D printed temperature-responsive hydrogel was selected as the Editor’s Choice: Polymer Chemistry in Scientific Reports. Congratulations!
[10/12/2018] RU3D Club's work on 3D printing of tactile maps for the blind visitors has been featured on Rutgers Today. Congratulations!
[08/31/2018] Ishan successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations!
[08/27/2018] Yueping has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
[05/18/2018] Our work on a 3D printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects is featured on news media, including
Rutgers Today, Engineering 360 (IEEE), Science Daily, Phys.org, Eurekalert!, c&en, and many more!
[05/18/2018] Daehoon’s paper on soft robotic manipulation and locomotion with a 3D printed electroactive hydrogel is published on
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulation!
[05/18/2018] Our group has been awarded a grant from Leidos Biomed/National Cancer Institute for 4D printing of programmable smart material for cellular spheres and organoids. This is a collaborative project with New Jersey Cancer Institute (Prof. Savaawy).
[05/11/2018] Raymond, Sohan, Chris, Santiago, Noor, and Jaewook have joined the group. Welcome aboard!
[01/31/2018] Our work on 3D printed shape-shifting gel is featured on news media, including Rutgers Today, Science Daily, Phys.org, Eurekalert!, Physics News, R&D Magazine, and many more!
[01/31/2018] Daehoon’s paper on 3D printed temperature responsive hydrogel is published on Scientific Reports. Congratulation!
2017
[12/15/2017] Manish successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations!
[12/08/2017] Riddish successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations!
[06/29/2017] Prof. Lee received the Young Researcher Award from the International Symposium on Green Manufacturing and Applications (ISGMA) 2017. Congratulations!
[01/19/2017] Our group has been awarded a research grant from New Jersey Health Foundation.
[01/01/2017] Mukund has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
2016
[12/15/2016] Lucas successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations!
[11/17/2016] Daehoon and Chen presented their works at 2016 IMECE.
[11/15/2016] Prof. Lee received the Haythornthwaite Young Investigator Award from ASME Applied Mechanics Division.
[10/04/2016] Chen presented his works at SES 2016 Symposium.
[10/03/2016] Daehoon presented his works at SES 2016 Symposium.
[09/01/2016] Riddish has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
[06/01/2016] Manish, Ishan, and Tanmay have joined the group. Welcome aboard!
[04/08/2016] Jay successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations!
[02/22/2016] Jason's work on 3D Printing of Tactile Map for the Blind and Visually Impaired has been featured on Rutgers Today. Congratulations!
2015
[10/15/2015] Our group received a research grant from the Agency of Defense Development in Korea. Title of the project is "Simultaneous Manipulation of Thermal and Mechanical Properties via Multifunctional-Reconfigurable Metamaterials in Multiscale." Congratulations!
[08/11/2015] Our group received a Small Instrumentation Grant from IAMDN at Rutgers. Congratulations!
[08/01/2015] Chen has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
[07/01/2015] Emanuele from University of Pisa, Italy, has joined the group as a visiting scholar. Welcome aboard!
[07/01/2015] Our group received a Research Council Grant from Rutgers Research Council. Congratulations!
[01/01/2015] Zhaocheng (Lucas) has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
2014
[08/20/2014] Daehoon has joined the group. Welcome aboard!
[01/01/2014] Prof. Howon Lee has started his research and teaching program in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University. Bon Voyage!
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