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Many thanks to Isabel Kalnin, Christian Grimme and Christopher Kuo-Leblanc made significant contributions to the research in our group, way more than expected to be done, only in 10 weeks! We are sad that they are leaving, but we hope that they come back. Also thanks to our graduate students Jizhe, Jamshid, Yijun and Kai who stood along their side and mentored them.

• Isabel pushed the limits in developing hollow carbon nanfibers with wall thickness of ~10-20 nm,
• Christopher developed a variation of melt electrospinning to develop low micron and submicron polymeric fibers,
• Christian made an in-house setup capable of mass producing single threads of PAN nanofibers with a very narrow diameter distribution.

For more details, look at our paper titled “Porous Fibres with Encapsulated Functional Materials and Tunable Release” on our Publication Page.

More information about the news can be found in. Also, a paper based on Sneha’s paper was recently published in Carbon.

Our research on developing the next generation of Carbon fibers in which precursor has been treated to enhance the strength was published in carbon. We managed to increase the strength by more than 100%! You can see the paper here.

She did an awesome job on relating the microstructure of CNFs to their mechanical properties, and identifying the role of graphitic alignment.

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