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April 18, 2024

Welcome to all our new members at Softliv Lab! We're thrilled to have Dr Senthilkumar (Senthil) Duraivel join us fresh from completing his PhD at the University of Florida,...

April 1, 2024

Congratulations to Nan and all co-authors for the publication of their paper titled "Elastomers Fail from the Edge" in Physical Review X! This work unveils the mechanisms...

March 19, 2024

Exciting news from our lab! Lotta, a Visiting Scholar in our lab, has been awarded the esteemed Walter Benjamin Fellowship by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German...

March 15, 2024

Teagan gave talks at the APS March Meeting 2024 in Minneapolis on the topic of partitioning client proteins to the interface Kathryn Rosowski, a former postdoc of the lab, also...

January 1, 2024

Carla's paper on elastic microphase separation (EMPS) is featured in Nature Materials News & Views with the article "Bridging the gap in mesoscopic length scales" The article...

December 20, 2023

Congratulations to Tom and all co-authors for their paper titled "Actin and Microtubules Position Stress Granules", which was just published in Physical Review X! The work...

December 2, 2023

Thanks to Cornell Engineering for making a great video about the motivation for the research in our...

November 21, 2023

Nan and Takumi attended the 76th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics and both gave talks Nan presented his recent research on droplets sliding on soft materials...

November 16, 2023

Beginning of November 2023, we successfully ran our first 49-hour beamtime at CHESS, Cornell's synchrotron! It was a great team effort and a lot of fun! We studied protein samples...

November 9, 2023

A very warm welcome to Teagan Bate (PhD), Takumi Matsuzawa (PhD), Harsha Koganti (B Sc) and Kaarthik Varma (M Sc) who joined our lab after our start at Cornell...

November 2, 2023

We are very happy to see our new paper lead by Carla out in Nature Materials Find out all about how elastic microphase separation produces robust bicontinuous...

October 6, 2023

Congratulations to Sai, Eric and all other authors for publishing this manuscript in Soft Matter! Find out all about how absorbing pigments can increase the reflectivity and...