08/2024 New research grant from ACS PRF
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Dr. Xu received a New Direction grant from ACS PRF ($125,000) on the topic of advanced manufacturing with polyolefin-based functional materials. We would like to thank ACS PRF for the support!​
08/2024 Dr. Xu attended the 2024 Gordon Research Conference
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Dr. Xu attended the 2024 Additive Manufacturing of Soft Materials Gordon Research Conference in Rhode Island.​
06/2024 Shan Liu successfully passed her PhD thesis defense
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Shan Liu successfully passed her PhD thesis defense, and became the second PhD from Xu Group! Good luck to your work at Avient.​
03/2024 Pratik Kasbe successfully passed his PhD thesis defense
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Pratik Kasbee successfully passed hisPhD thesis defense, and became the first PhD from Xu Group! Good luck to your work at Intel.​
01/2024 Dr. Xu gave an invited talk at Cleveland State University
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Dr. Xu gave an invited talk on "Sustainable Polymer Nanocomposites and their Advanced Manufacturing" ​at Cleveland State University
10/2023 Dr. Xu was awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award
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Dr. Xu was awarded the DARPA Young Faculty Award. The strong support from students and colleagues is greatly appreciated!
https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/dr-weinan-xu-receives-prestigious-darpa-young-faculty-award
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08/2023 Paper accepted in Cell Reports Physical Science
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Our paper on additive manufacturing of multifunctional polymer-metal composites was accepted in Cell Reports Physical Science, a premium open-access journal from Cell Press. Congratulations to all the coauthors!
06/2023 TechConnect World 2023
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Dr. Xu attended the TechConnect World Innovation 2023 Conference and gave an invited talk on Designing Polymer Nanocomposites for Functional Additive Manufacturing.
05/2023 International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society
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Dr. Xu attended the 38th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society in Switzerland, and gave a keynote talk on Molecular Engineering and Additive Manufacturing of Polyisobutylene-Based Functional Elastomers.
04/2023 Cheng-Han defended MS Thesis
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Cheng-Han successfully had his master's thesis defense. Congratulations and good luck with your future career!