06/19/2025
Publication alert! Gowtham’s paper with Mirina on “Chiral bioderived supercapacitor electrodes based on cellulose nanocrystals” is now online.
Read more here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5MA00475F
06/9, 17/2025
It’s time for SEA! This year, in addition to Evi’s favorite farmer’s batteries, Gowtham and Rehan taught students about polymers and how to make bouncy balls.
04/11/2025
Gowtham gave an excellent presentation on chiral supercapacitor electrodes at our ChEE Friday Seminar. These seminars are designed to help graduate students strengthen their communication skills and share their research with fellow students. Great job representing the group! 👏
03/31/2025
Our latest paper with the SEMA Lab from Georgia Tech on stretchable laminates with tunable structural colors from layered stacks of elastomeric, ionic, and natural polymers is out! Here is the link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.5c01880
03/25/2025
Evi gave an invited talk at the ACS Spring 2025 Meeting in San Diego, and Gowtham presented a poster at the National Graduate Research Polymer Conference 2025 in Phoenix. Thank you to the organizers for the great events!
01/23/2025
New Year Celebration: We kicked off 2025 with an exciting escape room adventure!
- Half of us saved the world from a zombie apocalypse.
- The other half? Well, let’s just say they got caught red-handed trying to steal from a bank.
01/16/2025
We are excited to welcome ChEE undergraduate students Andrew Vos and Morgan Stever to our group!
12/16/2024
Isaiah has been named a Scott Roberts Scholar! This award supports select CHEE undergraduates in conducting independent research during the Spring 2025 semester. Congratulations, Isaiah!
09/18/2024
Evi gave an invited talk at her undergraduate alma mater, the department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Ioannina, Greece, in celebration of their 25th anniversary.
08/26/2024
Congratulations to Rehan for receiving the UA College of Engineering Graduate College Fellowship (GCF)!
08/19/2024
Our group is growing! We welcome PhD students Sai Gowtham Allu and Rehan Hasnain, as well as accelerated master’s students Ivan Hernandez and Isaiah Hernandez.
07/23/2024
Our group organized an interactive energy storage session for high school students during the UA Summer Engineering Academy (SEA). We discussed the history, mechanisms, and applications of energy storage, and built farmer’s batteries to demonstrate energy conversion, sparking curiosity and interest.
06/17/2024
Congratulations to Kara and Mirina on the group’s first publication, featured in the Early Career Materials Researcher issue of MRS Communications! Here’s the link to the publication: https://doi.org/10.1557/s43579-024-00601-z
03/18/2024
Evi delivered a presentation on MXene thin films for energy storage at the ACS Spring meeting.
01/10/2024
Welcome to our first undergraduate students: Mirina Enderlin and Kara Randall! Mirina is currently a third-year chemical engineering student and Kara is a second-year environmental engineering student at the University of Arizona.
11/21/2023
Our first instruments have arrived, and we are getting ready for our first experiments!
08/21/2023
The Flouda Research Lab (FRL) launched today at the University of Arizona!