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Tolulope Lawal & collaborators in Chemistry at UM published on surfactants also binding with micro-plastics & adhesives in fluids like laundry effluent

11/2024

Julie Rieland, Zoe Hu, & collaborators at MSU published on work extracting coffee fruit extracts using ionic liquids to yield both natural cellulose fibers and functional lignins.

Sep 2023

Soft Structure lab is part of a group from Michigan to build next generation masks sponsored from the Department of Commerce

Look for more details once the project is officially in place and the statement of work is clear.

March 2022

"Stuck on you". Functional friction measurements on doctored baseballs.

We used bug spray, rosin, pine tar and "spider tack" to gauge how much they affected the rolling resistance of baseballs at 2 temperartures at the most recent TMS Conference in Anaheim.

March 2022

Soft Structure Lab cited in Time Magazine

The proliferation of PPE and stressed recycling systems are increasing waste collections

March 2021

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A team from UM wins $2M EFRI program at the National Science Foundation on microplastics capture

The notion is to use breakdown products from personal care products to produce adhesives with an affinity for microplastics in condensed fluids.

12/1/2020

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Soft Structure lab is collaborating with the Whitney Lab of Marine Science at the Univ of Florida on identifying microplastics consumed by turtles and shellfish

A recent journal article was just submitted (march 2022) to the journal "Microplastics"

11/1/2020

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Brian with Mike Burns write/publish a book of vignettes on materials in sports showing how optimum choice of materials affects performance

26 chapter of fun. checkout www.corkedthebook.com for more details

4/4/2019

March 2021: review paper in MSE-C recently accepted

Lydia Mensah and Dr Love recently received notice that their review paper on antibiotic-loaded bone cements submitted to Materials Science and Engineering C was accepted. A preprint will be uploaded here soon.

February 2021: Julie Rieland garners honorable mention at the UM Engr Research Symposium

Julie (MACRO) gave a series of virtual presentations on ionic liquid mediated extraction and processing or cellulose from biomass. Nice job Julie.