SRG folks in front of GRC posters All SRG members except the undergrads attended GRC Science of Adhesion at Mount Holyoke in late July. Wanliang served as discussion leader for one evening session on switchable…

Wanliang just finished a trip to the great Los Angeles area to visit Younger Optics, which is hosting Chenxu for an NSF-funded internship. Former SRG members Amir and Valerie have been working in the area…

SRG congratulate Zach and Siavash for their achievements over the years at SU. Zach is heading for Georgia Tech for Ph.D. study and Siavash is enjoying his work at Frontgrade! We wish them both good…

It is homecoming in essence. Wanliang has been trained to be a solid mechanician at Princeton. It is only fitting and extremely fulfilling for Wanliang to receive the NSF Career Award from the "notoriously" competitive…

Congratulations to Yanbing!

We are excited to share that our group has achieved a significant advance on tunable dry adhesion using soft hollow pillars under low pressure. Dry adhesion ~150 times change within one second using low pressure…

We are prepared for the coming winter...

On Thursday August 11, 2022, Siavash successfully defended his thesis and now he is ready to graduate ASAP!

We are excited to share the news that SRG is awarded a $550k NSF Partnership for Innovation (PFI) grant to develop prototypes of soft grippers based on dynamically tunable adhesion. This is a collaborative project…

SRG undergrad member Jason has received a $5,000 SOURCE grant to conduct research on novel smart materials under mentoring from Prof. Shan. SOURCE stands for┬áthe Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement. We thank…