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Lab life!
Kellen Mitchell's paper "Particle-Polymer Interactions for 3D Printing Material Design" was retweeted by Dr. Jennifer Lewis at Havard University. February 3, 2024.
Lab group at end of the year dinner. Clockwise from bottom left: Weijian, Cheng, Ryan, Kellen, Erick, Lily, Michelle, and Dr. Jin.
Lily Raymond, Erick Bandala, and Kellen Mitchell at Western Nevada College for the Nevada NASA Statewide meeting in Carson City, NV. April 28, 2023.
Lily Raymond, Erick Bandala, and Dr. Jin at Western Nevada College for the Nevada NASA Statewide meeting in Carson City, NV. April 28, 2023.
Kellen Mitchell, Erick Bandala, Dr. Jin, and Lily Raymond at Western Nevada College for the Nevada NASA Statewide meeting in Carson City, NV. April 28, 2023.
Kellen Mitchell presenting at the Nevada NASA Statewide meeting in Carson City, NV. April 28, 2023.
Weijian Hua with his poster at the ME Graduate Research Poster Competition. April 27, 2023.
Erick Bandala with his poster at the ME Graduate Research Poster Competition. April 27, 2023.
Lily Raymond with her poster at the ME Graduate Research Poster Competition. April 27, 2023.
ME Graduate Research Poster Competition group photo (Weijian Hua, Cheng Zhang, Kellen Mitchell, Erick Bandala and Lily Raymond pictured). April 27, 2023.
Group lunch December 11, 2022.
Naima's successfully defended her Master’s thesis: Direct Ink Writing of Porous Titanium Acetabular Cups. December 5, 2022.
Kellen's artificial muscle printhead/nozzle schematic was chosen as the cover page for Machines. September 8, 2022.
Kellen was awarded 3rd place in the Mechanical Engineering Department poster competition. May 4, 2022.
Dr. Jin, Kellen, and Lily attended the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium Statewide Meeting at the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas, NV. April 29, 2022.
Dr. Jin presented a material extrusion method to manufacture artificial muscles using a printhead with a helix-shaped channel.
Kellen and Lily presented their posters at the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium Statewide Meeting at the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas, NV. April 29, 2022. ​​
Lily successfully defended her Master’s thesis: Hybrid Extrusion 3D Printing of Self-Deployable Smart Solar Panel Hinges. April 26, 2022.
Ryan, Lily, and David Bombara (a Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering from Dr. Zhang’s Smart Robotics Lab) all were awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. April 3, 2022.
Erick (left) won 1st place in the 2022 Madani-Gordaninejad Speech Contest, in which he presented why 3D printed organs is the future solution for the organ shortage. April 8, 2022.
Erick presented his project “3D Printing of Graphene Oxide-Based Supercapacitor for Solar Energy Storage” at UNR's undergraduate research poster symposium on August 5, 2021.
Lily giving a tour of the lab high school students. Weijian, Kellen, and Ryan have also given lab tours.
​Naima giving a tour of the lab high school students. Weijian, Kellen, and Ryan have also given lab tours.
Weijian with a strand of sodium alginate cured in calcium chloride.
Weijian (left) and Ryan (right) imaged on a temperature sensitive camera.