News

Summer 2024

We’re excited to dive deep in the lab this summer. Recent developments are below:

  • People: We welcome REU students Clara Middleton and Rita Wilson. They will be mentored by postdoc Patrick McCauley and learn through CHARM professional development events!
  • Presentations: Congratulations to Juliana for giving her second-year department talk!
  • Presentations: PI Bayles presented at the Formulation Science and Engineering for the Common Good Workshop in Washington, DC.

Spring 2024

The Bayles Lab has had a busy start to 2024. People, papers, presentations, and proposals galore. Check out below for a highlight reel!

  • People: Graduate students Nina Fratto (co-advised w/ Thomas Epps) and Kaan Murat joined the group. They’re already off to the races researching lignin-derived inks and microfluidic interferometry.  So glad to have you on the team!
  • People: Data science master’s student Yamini Pravallika Medapati worked with Juliana to devise machine learning strategies for advective assembly. The best teams are filled with diverse perspectives!
  • People: Undergraduate student Tiffany Jung graduated with her Bachelors in Chemical Engineering. She completed an exciting research project with PI Bayles, Prof. Hartt, and undergraduates Kainat Azhar and Adrian Seucan that will be featured at conferences this summer.
  • People: PI Bayles was delighted to receive the AIChE Delaware Valley Section Outstanding Alumni Award.
  • Papers: Postdoc Patrick McCauley and PI Bayles published their first paper from the Bayles Lab in the Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering Special Issue by ACS Engineering Au! Learn about nozzle innovations that improve capacity and capabilities of multimaterial additive manufacturing here: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsengineeringau.4c00001 
  • Papers: Tazio Pleij (ETH Zurich) published his work with PI Bayles and Jan Vermant combining advective assembly with support bath 3D printing to make free-form architectures. Read about it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202400005 
  • Papers: Patrick Danner (Empa) and Tazio Pleij (ETH Zurich) published their work with PI Bayles, Jan Vermant and Dorina Opris on polysiloxane capillary suspension inks for multimaterial 3D printing of dielectric elastomer transducers. Read about it here: https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202313167 
  • Presentations: PI Bayles presented at the GRC on Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Polyelectrolyte Solutions in Ventura, CA.
  • Presentations: Graduate student Juliana Nam and postdoc Patrick McCauley presented at the Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop at Georgetown University.
  • Presentations: Graduate student Juliana Nam presented a poster at UD’s Women in Engineering Symposium and won the Audience Choice Best Poster. Congrats, Juliana!
  • Presentations: PI Bayles presented at the Advanced Manufacturing Symposium at Princeton University.
  • Proposals: PI Bayles was thrilled to receive the NSF CAREER award. Looking forward to intensifying 3D printing with advective assembly. The award will also support talented UD students & PI Bayles in broaden STEM literacy through the K12 outreach program, FRACTAL: Forging and Replicating Ambassador Communities to Accelerate Learning.
  • Proposals: PI Bayles and UD graduate students conducted outreach at Shue Medill-Middle School as a part of FRACTAL. It included glittery lava lamp emulsions. Unsurprisingly, it was an absolute blast.