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May 1, 2008: Manish K. Tiwari wins prestigious UIC award for 2008-09. The Dean's Scholar Award is presented by the Dean of the Graduate College in recognition of a student's scholarly achievement. It is intended to provide the most distinguished, advanced-level graduate students with a period of time dedicated solely to the completion of their programs.

Congratulations Manish!

John Szczech

August 15, 2008: Our paper “Fine-Line Conductor Manufacturing Using Advanced Drop-On-Demand PZT Printing Technology,” J. B. Szczech, C. M. Megaridis, D. R. Gamota and J. Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing 25, 26-33 (2002) has been selected by the Illinois Engineering Council as one of its four 2008 Engineering Achievement Award winners. John Szczech and Jie Zhang both received their PhD in the MNFTL and are presently with Motorola Labs.

Jie Zhang

November 2008: Our article I.S. Bayer, M.K. Tiwari and C.M. Megaridis, "Biocompatible poly(vinylidene fluoride)/cyanoacrylate composite coatings with tunable hydrophobicity and bonding strength," Applied Physics Letters 93, 173902, 2008 received unsolicited coverage by the November 1, 2008 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research

July 16, 2009: Manish K. Tiwari successfully defends PhD dissertation titled "Functional Nanocomposites and Dispersions: Synthesis, Characterization and Performance Evaluation." This August, Manish will be moving to Switzerland where he will join Prof. Poulikakos' group at
ETH-Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher. Congratulations Manish!

July 2009: Dr. Megaridis co-organizes Minisymposium titled "Fluid Dynamics at Super-Repellent Surfaces" at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society (APS). For more details, click here

May 2011: NSF awards new grant to MNFTL to study icephobic coatings.

October 2011: Dr. Megaridis elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Election to APS Fellowship is limited to no more than 0.5% of the membership and reflects recognition by one's peers of one's outstanding contributions to physics. The citation for Dr. Megaridis reads
as follows: “For pioneering the development of thermophoretic sampling, as well as contributions to the fluid dynamics of droplet impact and the behavior of fluids in nanoenclosures.” For more details, click here