The FITs lab successfully hosted a workshop for 2024 STEM4girls event!

The FITs lab hosted a workshop for 2024 STEM4girls event on Oct 5 on UMassD campus. The girls played water droplets on superhydrophobic surface, tested the self-cleaning properties of superhydrophobic surface, and commented: “This is real science“, and “This is the best experiment I have done“. Thank you UMassD for organizing this event. Thank our labmate Foram for preparing the samples and helping the students.

The FITs lab successfully hosted a summer workshop!

The FITs lab successfully hosted a one-week summer workshop for 8 high school students on a topic of “Fundamental, fabrication, application, and challenges of superhydrophobic surface“. The students learned various aspects of superhydrophobic material through various lab activities and hands-on experiments. This workshop was supported by NSF and Massachusetts Life Science Center program. Special thank you to our lab members (Ankit, Daniel, Shabnam, Dillon, and Isaac) who hosted the lab activities.

New paper published on Results in Surfaces and Interfaces. Congratulations to Elius!

Super-hydrophobic surface (SHS), which traps micro/nano-scale gas bubbles on solid walls, has been reported to greatly reduce bacterial adhesion and biofouling. However, it is unclear whether and how the trapped gas bubbles reduce the bacterial adhesion. In this work, we examined the role of the trapped gas on the bacterial adhesion by measuring the spatial distributions of attached bacteria on SHS using scanning electron microscopy. Full article is available here.

This work is funded by UMass Dartmouth’s Marine and Undersea Technology (MUST) Research Program funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Grant No. N00014-20-1-2170. The Office of Technology Commercialization & Ventures (OTCV) Technology Development Fund from University of Massachusetts’s President’s Office.

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