News

July 2024   [Team building]

Summer outdoor activity! We went to Kayak on Lake Lansing and barbeque after that. 

June 2024   [Research]

Our lab, in collaboration with Dr. Lenan Zhang at Cornell and Dr. Yayuan Liu at Johns Hopkins, received a NSF RAISE grant for research in solar-powered water electrolysis. 

June 2024   [Outreach]

We were involved in Spartan Girls in Engineering Summer Camp. A group of high school and middle school girls (~30 people) visited our lab and we illustrated how light can interact with soft materials. 

June 2024   [Research]

Congratulations to Yijie Cheng who passed the qualifying exam in ChE! Now Yijie is a PhD candidate.

June 2024   [Research]

Adolfo Lopez works in our lab as part of the ENSURE program, which offers summer research opportunities for high-achieving undergraduates. 

Yijie (1st-year graduate) and Adolfo (senior undergraduate) presented their research at MSU's annual Engineering Graduate Research Symposium! Their audience is people with general engineering backgrounds. 

Apr 2024 [Outreach] 

 Liu Lab presented at the MSU's annual Science Festival! Curious kids and their parents from all around Michigan came to visit our expo booth. They learned Science about optical materials and played with different hydrogels.  Check more information about hydrogel optics here.

Feb 2024 [Research] 

Xinyue, in collaboration with Dr. Yun Liang in Physiology and Dr. Weiyi Lu in Civil Engineering, got the Tetrad Initiative Award. Thanks for the support from the departments and MSU! 

Jan 2024 [New member] 

Braeden Keener, Adolfo Lopez, and Tori Morgan joined our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome Braeden, Adolfo, and Tori!

Nov 2023 [Activity]

Our group had a thanksgiving dinner at my home - No turkey but hotpot. 

Nov 2023 [New member] 

Yuchen Bian joined our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Yuchen!

Oct  2023 [New member] 

Yijie Cheng joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome Yijie!

Aug 2023 [Teaching] 

Xinyue teaches MSE425 Biomaterials and Biocompatibility in Fall 2023. It is an undergraduate-level course open to juniors and seniors. 27 students from Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering are taking the course. 

Aug 2023 [New lab

We started our lab in the basement of Anthony Hall! A wonderland for experiments.

July 2023 [Research]

Xinyue, as a co-PI, received an NSF grant on In-situ Hydrogel-MXene Biosensors in collaboration with Dr. Shaoting Lin at MSU and Dr. Chenglin Wu at Texas A&M University.

June 2023 [Research]

  Xinyue started recruiting students at MSU in Fall 2023.

May 2024   [Research]