03/2025 Tenure and Promotion Approved
Dr. Xu received confirmation from the Provost that he will receive a promotion to Associate Professor with tenure for academic year 2025-2026. I would like to thank all my students, colleagues, and collaborators for their support!
08/2024 New research grant from ACS PRF
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
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
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
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
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
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
08/2023 Paper accepted in Cell Reports Physical Science
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
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
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
Cheng-Han successfully had his master's thesis defense. Congratulations and good luck with your future career!