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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…

“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…

Kody Whisnant and Alain Kadar have been awarded from 2024 BI Research Day! Congratulations!

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…

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…

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…

This year, the Kotov Lab returned to laser tag! We had so much fun together.Date: Sunday, Aug 11, 2024

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…

Nanostructured materials for multispectral optics in extreme conditions 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…

Congratulations on Dr. Lim for his successful defense!

Congratulations to Kody on winning the coveted Distinguished Leadership Award from COE!

Congratulations on Dr. Hubbard for her successful defense!

It was an incredible experience working alongside Beatrice Bartolomei (second to the right), a PhD student from Universita Degli Studi Di Triste, on Carbon dots and their assemblies. The collaboration involved a team of highly…

Dr. Ji-Young was awarded as Laureate in Women Interactive Materials Award (WIMA) 2022 held at the DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen, Germany, for her scientific work and achievement in the field…

Discover Engineering is a part of the CoE programs for Engineering Camps for Kids. It is designed for students in 8th-10th grade, and aims to give young students a deeper understanding of our engineering disciplines and motivate them to pursue…

Prashant and Misché received the “Honorable Mention Poster Award” in the 32nd International Symposium on Chirality 2022, which was held in Chicago, IL. Congratulations!

UM Alumni and their children from 4th to 7th grade experienced a glimpse of cutting-edge research of BioInterfaces Institute – Cure for diseases. Kids in Kotov Lab booth worked with gold NP forelectrolyte detection in sports drinks and make…

Posse scholars visited UM campus and Nicole, undergraduate research assistant from Kotov Lab, led the outreach event. Scholars had a chance to work with gold NP for electrolyte detection in sports drinks and tungsten oxide NP to experiment with…

It is also highlighted by Minkyu Kim & Vladimir V. Tsukruk (link). Please check out the recent article about Chiral phonons in microcrystals and nanofibrils of biomolecules. Congratulations!

Congratulations! Dr. Wonjin Choi was awarded the prestigious Lawrence Fellowship. The fellowship, named after Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who received the Nobel Prize in 1939 for inventing the cyclotron, is given to candidates who have exceptional talent,…

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It is also highlighted by Yuri Kivshar(link). Please check out the recent article about Third-harmonic Mie-scattering from semiconductor nanohelices. Congratulations!

This Fellowship will offer a unique opportunity for Anastasia Visheratina to be embedded within the BI research and translational ecosystem to explore and work on BI translational and commercialization projects with BI leadership, faculty members,…