Category: Outreach

Xplore engineering 2018 event for middle school students was held at 28 and 29 of June. Our group had a booth where we discussed how the nanoparticles could possibly be used in cancer diagnosis and engaged the young visitors in experiments.

Kotov lab actively involved in Xplore engineering 2017 event which was held at 22 and 23 of June. We had a booth at Engineering a cure to Cancer division where we demonstrated the possible use of nanoparticles in detection while engaging young visitor in experiments.

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We set up a booth with Biointerfaces Institute in the section, Engineering a cure to Cancer, where we did a demo with using gold nanoparticles to detect the amount of electrolytes in common sports drinks.

The innovation day for student teams from University of Michigan, Purdue University, and Norfolk State University that took place on 6/3/16. INNOVATE! is the ideation and entrepreneurship education session in which 25 NSU, UM and PU students participated. The teams worked on the projects related to composite kirigami and soft plasmonics. The ideation days was Continue Reading »

On Sept 10, 2015, Our start-up venture, Elegus Techniologies, graduated with great honors from the first in Detroit TechStar

Mobility incubator. Elegus Technologies transfers the invention of aramid nanofibers composites into high capacity high discharge rate batteries

Lesson of  experimental chemistry in Go with the Wind Middle School in Ypsilanti, MI.
The students learned about how the atoms are connecting into molecules.  The bonding of atoms of carbon and oxygen is associated with release of energy that is observed as heat.  We investigated thermodynamics of such reaction by burning a piece of Continue Reading »

Students were excited to have a Lab tour with Prof. Kotov.