COFFEE TIME!!
Current and former KotovLab members have gathered at 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit – Seattle, Washington! It’s always happy to see everyone and talk about life, research, and other exciting things.
COFFEE TIME!!
Current and former KotovLab members have gathered at 2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit – Seattle, Washington! It’s always happy to see everyone and talk about life, research, and other exciting things.
It was a most heartwarming reunion of “Be Different” students and alumni at the 2024 Annual AICHE Meeting in San Diego. By tradition it was a Brazilian steakhouse Fogo de Chao. It was great to see how everyone connected. We talked science, careers, and of course food. Lamb chops were, by the way, amazing!
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“It’s always a pleasure to be recognized by friends and colleagues. Afterwards, the professors who judged the presentations mentioned that I had successfully explained a very unique and complex research topic in a clear and informative way, which I suppose is the best compliment you could ever receive in science communication.” – Michael
Three members of our lab have been recognized for their contributions to chiral chemistry. Joseph B. and Florence V. Cejka Professor of Chemical Engineering Nicholas Kotov, visiting graduate student Michal Sawczyk, and post-doc Yanan Wang were recently honored with awards for their work in chiral particles and nanomaterials at the 34th International Symposium Continue Reading »
A team of Prof. Kotov had a lot of fun kicking off the ‘Complex Particle Design and Applications’ session of the 2024 UMich Chemical Engineering Graduate Symposium, discussing the work in Kotov Lab to quantify the structural complexity of network materials using a graph theoretical approach!
Prashant, a former lab member, has been honored at the MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 awards. The honor list recognizes the Top 35 innovators under the age of 35 who are making a significant impact in their fields in the Asia Pacific region.
Asst Prof Prashant Kumar from the NTU School of Materials Science Continue Reading »
Congratulations!
E. Sumeyra Turali-Emre is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Kotov Lab, Chemical Engineering. Her research focuses on engineering nanoparticles for biomedical applications, including antibacterial activity and capturing extracellular vesicles for disease biomarkers. In addition to her research commitments, she is deeply committed to advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace. She Continue Reading »
A team of scientists from the University of Michigan, Air Force Research Laboratory, and University of Sao Carlos in Brazil has shown how to create tough and strong nanocomposites with record-high polarization rotation that operate at temperatures exceeding 250º C.