2024

5/2024 – New article on Applications of Liquid Metals published with Aaron Ohta, Michael Dickey, and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh for the special section on liquid metal in Advanced Materials Technologies.

5/2024 – The lab holds an outreach event for 5th grade students on adhesion.

5/2024 – New article on Let it Flow: Emergence of Liquid Metals published with Michael Dickey, Aaron Ohta, and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh for the special issue on Liquid Metals for Functional Materials in Advanced Functional Materials.

5/2024 – Prof. Bartlett serves as a guest editor with Michael Dickey, Aaron Ohta, and Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh for the special issue on Liquid Metals for Functional Materials in Advanced Functional Materials.

4/2024 – New paper on Enhancing Electrical Conductivity of Stretchable Liquid Metal–Silver Composites through Direct Ink Writing published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

3/2024 – Prof. Bartlett’s News & Views article At the breaking point published in Nature Physics. See the open access version.

3/2024 – New paper on Kuttsukigami: sticky sheet design published in Soft Matter and featured on the cover with Andrew Croll.

3/2024 – New paper on Topology as a limiting factor for mechanical properties in disordered networks published in Cell Reports Physical Science with Edwin Chan.

3/2024 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited virtual seminar at Meta Reality Labs.

2/2024 – Prof. Bartlett is interviewed by Nature Nanotechnology. See the story.

2/2024 – Prof. Bartlett is named to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) as a Senior Member. See the story.

2/2024 – Aldo receives the Best Poster Award at the Adhesion Society.

2/2024 – Yeunhee, Camryn, Aldo, Ahmed, Chanhong, Ohnyoung, Ravi, Wuzhou, and Ella attend the Adhesion Society Annual Meeting and present their work.

2/2024 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar in Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech.

1/2024 – New paper on Rapid and Reversible Morphing to Enable Multifunctionality in Robots published in Advanced Intelligent Systems. See the story on Advanced Science News.

1/2024 – New paper on A Flexible and Electrically Conductive Liquid Metal Adhesive for Hybrid Electronic Integration published in Advanced Functional Materials.

2023

12/2023 – New paper on Designing liquid metal microstructures through directed material extrusion additive manufacturing published with Eric Markvicka in Additive Manufacturing.

11/2023 – New paper on Liquid metal-elastomer composites for water-resilient soft electronics published in the Journal of Polymer Science.

10/2023 – Dong Hae and Prof. Bartlett attend and present at the 2023 SES Annual Technical Meeting.

10/2023 – Chanhong Lee and John Joyce receive the Best Poster Award at the 2023 MII Technical Conference and Review.

10/2023 – New paper on A Unified Understanding of Magnetorheological Elastomers for Rapid and Extreme Stiffness Tuning published in RSC Applied Polymers.

9/2023 – Prof. Bartlett is invited and attends the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2023 Symposium.

9/2023 – New paper on Bioinspired Materials for Underwater Adhesion with Pathways to Switchability published in Cell Reports Physical Science with Rong Long, Bruce P. Lee, and Grace X. Gu.

8/2023 – Prof. Bartlett is named a John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow. See the story.

8/2023 – Ted Barron successful defends his PhD thesis, congratulations Dr. Barron!

8/2023 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited talk at the GRC Science of Adhesion. Chanhong and Yeunhee present posters at the GRC and GRS.

7/2023 – The lab hosts four days of outreach with BEE VT (Black Engineering Excellence). See the video.

7/2023 – New paper on Electrically Conductive Liquid Metal Composite Adhesives for Reversible Bonding of Soft Electronics published in Advanced Functional Materials.

6/2023 – New paper on Metamaterial adhesives for programmable adhesion through reverse crack propagation published in Nature Materials with Rong Long and Eric Markvicka. See the story on VT, New Scientist, Phys.org, and more. Read the Behind the paper.

6/2023 – Prof. Bartlett is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

5/2023 – Prof. Bartlett receives the 2023 Adhesion Society Distinguished Paper Award.

5/2023 – Tyler Pozarycki successful defends his masters thesis, congratulations Tyler!

5/2023 – Chanhong Lee receives the Best Poster Award at the ME Graduate Symposium.

4/2023 – Gwyneth Schloer successful defends her masters thesis, congratulations Gwyn!

4/2023 – Prof. Bartlett receives the Faculty Fellow award from the VT College of Engineering.

3/2023 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at the University of Missouri in the CBE Department.

3/2023 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Physics Department.

2/2023 – Review paper on Peel tests for quantifying adhesion and toughness: A review published in Progress in Materials Science with Scott Case, Anthony Kinloch, and David Dillard.

2/2023 – Chanhong, Gwyneth, Ella, Ted, Tyler, Yeunhee, and Prof. Bartlett attend the Adhesion Society Annual Meeting and present their work.

1/2023 – Prof. Bartlett receives a NSF CAREER award. See the story and award.

1/2023 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at the University of Pennsylvania in the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department.

1/2023 – Jonathan Charleston successfully defends his PhD thesis, congratulations Dr. Charleston!

2022

11/2022 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at CU Boulder in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

10/2022 – Paper on RISO: Combining Rigid Grippers with Soft Switchable Adhesives  is on the ArXiv with Losey lab.

9/2022 – Prof. Bartlett attends the SES Annual Technical Meeting and gives an invited talk on Morphing Materials and a keynote talk on Intelligent Manipulation.

9/2022 – Multiple lab members attended the Cell Press Lab Links event on Soft, Stretchable, and Liquid Materials for Future Devices hosted by NC State. Prof. Bartlett gives an invited talk.

9/2022 – Paper on X-ray scattering as an effective tool for characterizing liquid metal composite morphology  is published in Soft Matter in the Soft Robotics themed collection with Moore lab.

9/2022 –  Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at Carnegie Mellon in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

9/2022 –  Undergraduates Austin, Chloe, Ella, and John present at the Undergraduate Research Project Showcase at Virginia Tech.

9/2022 – Prof. Bartlett holds an outreach event with Blacksburg Middle School students on Octa-glove.

9/2022 – Paper on Tough Bonding of Liquid Metal-Elastomer Composites for Multifunctional Adhesives  is published in Small in the Rising Star collection.

9/2022 – Paper on Peeling of finite-length elastica on Winkler foundation until complete detachment  is published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures with Plaut and Dillard labs.

8/2022 – Our lab welcomes new graduate students Wuzhou, Yeunhee, and Ohnyoung into our group.

8/2022 –  Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar in the RX directorate of AFRL.

8/2022 – Our lab receives support from the NSF Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) program. This is a collaborative research project with Prof. Dylan Losey (VT)  to study how to unify rigid and soft grippers for assistive eating.

7/2022 – Prof. Bartlett was a guest on Science Friday discussing Octa-glove, our octopus-inspired underwater adhesive skin, from our Science Advances paper.

7/2022 – Paper on Octopus-inspired adhesive skins for intelligent and rapidly switchable underwater adhesion  is published in Science Advances  and featured on the cover. See the story on Popular Science, New Scientist, Science News, Salon, SyFy Wire, Popular Mechanics, Discover, Daily Mail, TechExplore, and more. See the summary video.

7/2022 – Prof. Bartlett participates in C-Tech^2 for rising junior and senior high school young women.

6/2022 –  Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at NIST.

6/2022 – Our lab welcomes new Post-Doctoral Scholar Dong Hae Ho into our group.

5/2022 – Ted Barron receives First Prize in the RoboSoft 2022 – Soft Aerial Robotics Workshop poster session.

5/2022 – Gwyn Schloer receives the Outstanding ME Senior Award. See the story and video.

5/2022 – Prof. Bartlett attends MRS S 22, presents on Morphing Materials and Self-healing electronics, and chairs a session on Robotic Materials.

5/2022 – Prof. Bartlett receives the Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award from the College of Engineering.

4/2022 – Brittan Wilcox and Tyler Pozarycki receive the Best Poster Award at the ME Graduate Symposium.

4/2022 – Prof. Bartlett was a guest on the Soft Robotics Podcast discussing shape morphing materials from our Science Robotics paper. Listen to the conversation on SoundCloud, Spotify, YouTube, IEEE RAS Page, and other podcast services.

3/2022 – Paper on On Demand Programming of Liquid Metal-Composite Microstructures Through Direct Ink Write 3D Printing is published in Advanced Materials with Markvicka Lab.

3/2022 – Ted Barron receives the Best Poster Award at the MII Technical Conference.

2/2022 – Paper on Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity  is published in Science Robotics. See the story on IEEE Spectrum, BBC Science Focus, SyFy Wire, The Independent, Daily Beast, AZO Robotics, New Atlas, VT, and more. See the summary video.

2021

12/2021 – Dohgyu successfully defends his PhD! He will start at Dow this spring.

12/2021 – Paper on Graded Kirigami Composites for Programmed Strain Distributions  is published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

11/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives a seminar in the Galileo learning community in Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) at VT.

10/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited talk in the Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems Seminar on morphing robots and electronics.

9/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited talk in the Virtual Adhesion Science Gathering on switchable adhesives.

9/2021 – Our lab welcomes new graduate student Tyler Pozarycki into our group.

9/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives a seminar in VT MSE.

9/2021 – Haque begins a postdoctoral position with Prof. Jordan Raney (UPenn).

8/2021 – Our lab welcomes new graduate students Elizabeth Krotz, Brittan Wilcox, and Chanhong Lee into our group.

8/2021 – Elizabeth Krotz receives a Graduate Fellowship for STEM Diversity (GFSD) to support her research.

7/2021 – Our lab receives support from the NSF Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. This is a collaborative research project with Prof. Bruce Lee (MT), Prof. Grace Gu (Berkeley), and Prof. Rong Long (UC Boulder) to study switchable underwater adhesion.

7/2021 – Our lab receives support from the NSF Advanced Manufacturing (AM) program. This is a collaborative research project with Prof. Eric Markvicka (UNL)  to study additive manufacturing of functional emulsions.

7/2021 – Dohgyu receives the Best Poster Award for his work on Programmable Adhesion at the National Graduate Research Polymer Conference (NGRPC).

7/2021 – Prof. Bartlett visits and presents at the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL).

6/2021 –  Paper on Self-healing liquid metal composite for reconfigurable and recyclable soft electronics  is published in Communications Materials. See the story on Phys.org., TechExplore, BBC Science Focus, and more.

6/2021 –  Paper on Cancer Cell Migration in Collagen-hyaluronan Composite Extracellular Matrices with Schneider Lab is published in Acta Biomaterialia.

5/2021 – Prof. Bartlett receives a 2021 ONR Young Investigator (YIP) Award.

4/2021 – Prof. Bartlett presents at MRS and chairs a session on novel soft composites.

4/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at Texas Tech in Mechanical Engineering.

4/2021 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited presentation at the 2021 ACS Spring Meeting in the Fundamentals of Polymer Mechanics session.

3/2021 – Prof. Bartlett receives the ICTAS Junior Faculty Award. VT news story.

3/2021 – Dohgyu receives the 2021 Adhesion Society Distinguished Paper Award for his work on Programmable Adhesion.

2/2021 – Dohgyu, Ted, Haque, and Ravi present at the 2021 Adhesion Society meeting. Prof. Bartlett gave a keynote presentation and co-organized/chaired a session on the 50th anniversary of the JKR theory.

2/2021 –  Prof. Bartlett’s News & Views article Liquid assets for soft electronics published in Nature Materials.

1/2021 –  Paper on Deterministic control of adhesive crack propagation through jamming based switchable adhesives  is published in Soft Matter as an invited submission to the 2021 Soft Matter Emerging Investigators Collection.

2020

12/2020 – Dohgyu receives the Peebles Award from the Adhesion Society.

11/2020 – Prof. Bartlett was a guest on the Soft Robotics Podcast. You can listen to the conversation on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and other podcast providers.

11/2020 – Paper on Mechanically Cloaked Multiphase Magnetic Elastomer Soft Composites for Wearable Wireless Power Transfer with Nathan Lazarus (ARL) is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

10/2020 – Paper on All-graphene-based open fluidics for pumpless, small-scale fluid transport via laser-controlled wettability patterning with Carmen Gomes (ISU) and Jonathan Claussen’s (ISU) groups published in Nanoscale Horizons.

10/2020 – Paper on macrophage adhesion to hydrophobically modified hydrogels with Katie Bratlie (ISU) and Shan Jiang’s (ISU) groups published in BioChemical Engineering Journal.

9/2020 – Paper on Conductive liquid metal elastomer thin films with multifunctional electro-mechanical properties with Ravi Shankar (UPitt) and Qibing Pei’s (UCLA) groups published in Multifunctional Materials.

9/2020 – Paper on Active Membranes on Rigidity Tunable Foundations for Programmable, Rapidly Switchable Adhesion with Dave Dillard (VT) and Kevin Turner (UPenn) published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

9/2020 – Paper on Modeling of Magnetorheological Elastomers with David Jiles Lab published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

9/2020 – Review paper on Solid-Liquid Composites with Rob Style et al. published in Advanced Functional Materials.

8/2020 – Ted receives a Journeyman Fellowship through the Army Research Lab and ORAU.

8/2020 -The Soft Materials and Structures lab moves to Virginia Tech!

7/2020 – Lin successfully defends her PhD!

7/2020 – Ravi successfully defends his PhD!

7/2020 – Dohgyu successfully defends his Masters!

6/2020 – Prof. Bartlett and Rob Style write an editorial titled Introduction to Liquid Composites as guest editors for the special Soft Matter issue on ‘Liquid Composites.’ See the collection here.

6/2020 – Haque receives a Postdoctoral Seed Grant from the Graduate College at Iowa State.

6/2020 – Prof. Bartlett’s World Science Festival presentation has been posted on YouTube. This is from the Cool Jobs program in New York City in 2019.

5/2020 – Prof. Bartlett receives a DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award.

4/2020 –Paper on programmable liquid metal microstructures for multifunctional soft thermal composites published in Advanced Functional Materials and featured as a cover article. See the story by ISU.

3/2020 – Dohgyu receives the Research Excellence Award from the Graduate College. Read more here.

3/2020 – Haque, Ravi, Dohgyu, and Ted present at the Midwest Graduate Student Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) Symposium.

2/2020 – Prof. Bartlett receives the Early Career Scientist Award from the Adhesion Society.

2/2020 – Ravi receives the Alan Gent Distinguished Student Award from the Adhesion Society. Read more here.

2/2020 – Dohgyu, Ravi, and Prof. Bartlett attend and present at the Adhesion Society in Charleston, SC. Prof. Bartlett co-organized and co-chaired a session on Soft Materials for Soft Technology.

1/2020 – Dohgyu receives the Brown Graduate Fellowship.

1/2020 – Sarah is awarded the Dean’s High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research to support her research in the lab.

 

2019

12/2019 – Ravi wins two awards. The Research Excellence Award from the Graduate College and the Peebles Award from the Adhesion Society.

11/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at the University of Illinois in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering.

11/2019 – Our lab hosted Science Bound students for a Saturday morning outreach event with our soft robotic gripper kits and new slingshot activity.

11/2019 – Haque and Prof. Bartlett give presentations at the IMECE in Salt Lake City.

11/2019 – Prof. Bartlett receives a NASA Iowa Space Grant Early Career Investigator Research Grant.

10/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at Virginia Tech in the Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII).

8/2019 – Prof. Bartlett is invited to be a guest editor for a special issue on ‘Liquid Composites’ for the journal Soft Matter.

8/2019 – Our lab receives a Regents Innovation Fund (RIF) grant to develop active materials for advanced mechanical systems.

7/2019 – Doh-Gyu and Prof. Bartlett present posters at the Adhesion GRC. Doh-Gyu also give a presentation at the Adhesion GRS and is elected the 2020 GRS Co-Chair!

6/2019 – Review paper on Switchable Adhesives for Multifunctional Interfaces with Croll Lab published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

5/2019 – Prof. Bartlett presents at the World Science Festival in New York City in the Cool Jobs program.

5/2019 – Paper on soft electronic skin for multi‐site damage detection and localization with Majidi and Markvicka Labs published in Advanced Functional Materials.

5/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC) TECH 42 meeting.

5/2019 – Paper on Self-healing materials for soft-matter machines and electronics with Dickey and Majidi Labs published in Nature Asia Materials.

4/2019 – Paper on liquid metal elastomer composites with controllable droplet size and loading with Martin Lab is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and is featured as a cover article.

4/2019 – Our paper on Tunable Kirigami Mechanical Metamaterials is a Top 100 Scientific Reports paper in Materials Science in 2018.

4/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at Arizona State University.

4/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives a presentation at MRS Spring 2019 in Phoenix.

3/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives an invited seminar at 3M.

3/2019 – Prof. Bartlett gives a presentation and chairs a session at SPIE Smart Materials + NDE in Denver. Check out the presentation.

3/2019 – Paper on collagen gel properties to regulate cancer cell migration with Schneider Lab published in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces.

2/2019 – Paper on Kirigami-enabled wireless deformation sensors with Reuel Lab published in Advanced Materials Technologies.

2/2019 – Ravi, Doh-Gyu, and Prof. Bartlett present at the 2019 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting in Hilton Head, SC. Prof. Bartlett chairs a session and serves as Chair of the Soft Adhesives Division.

1/2019 – Our paper on self-stiffening composites with the Thuo lab is one of the most popular articles in Materials Horizons in 2018.

1/2019 – Congratulations to Doh-Gyu for winning the Go for the Gold Award.

1/2019 – Paper on Flexible Thermoelectric Generators with Wu and Claussen Labs published in Nanoscale. Selected as Editor’s Choice: Thermoelectric nanostructures.

 

2018

12/2018 – Congratulations to Ravi and Doh-Gyu for passing their preliminary exam.

11/2018 – Prof. Bartlett gives a presentation at ASME-IMECE in Pittsburgh.

10/2018 – Our lab hosted Science Bound students for a Saturday morning event with our new soft robotic gripper kits. Check out the video.

10/2018 – Prof. Bartlett part of multi-disciplinary ISU team team funded by NSF to study flexible resonant sensors.

9/2018 – Paper on Multiphase Liquid Metal, Solid Particle Soft Composites with Napolitano Lab published in Advanced Functional Materials.

9/2018 – Prof. Bartlett gives seminar in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State University

7/2018 – Prof. Bartlett receives a 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award.

7/2018 – Our lab hosted a Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) summer camp event.

5/2018 – Paper on Autonomous Self-Healing Electronics and Robotics with Majidi Lab published in Nature Materials. Featured on The Washington Post, Phys.org, New Atlas, & others.

5/2018 – Doh-Gyu wins a poster award at the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC) Tape Summit.

5/2018 – Paper on Extreme Toughening of Soft Materials with Liquid Metal with Majidi Lab published in Advanced Materials.

4/2018 – Prof. Bartlett gives a presentation at MRS in Phoenix.

3/2018 – Undergraduate researcher Matthew Swift receives Stuart Honors Award for research in the lab.

3/2018 – Prof. Bartlett participates in AFRL 2030 at U. Nebraska.

3/2018 – Prof. Bartlett gives seminars in Mechanical Engineering at University of Nevada Reno & Iowa State University

3/2018 – Doh-Gyu, Ravi, and Prof. Bartlett present at the 2018 Adhesion Society Annual Meeting.

2/2018 – Paper on Tunable Mechanical Metamaterials through Hybrid Kirigami Structures published in Scientific Reports.

1/2018 – Paper on kirigami-inspired adhesives published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Featured on C&EN & Nanowerk.

1/2018 – Paper on mechanically triggered stiffness tuning with Thuo Lab published in Materials Horizons. Featured on Materials Today, Phys.org, Channel 13 news, & others. Featured as an inside cover article and on the front cover of the Fall 2018 ISU Engineering Magazine.

2017

5/2017 – Prof. Bartlett receives a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award

04/2017 – Prof. Bartlett is awarded ESC’s student nominated Outstanding Faculty Award

04/2017 – Cole receives undergraduate research grant

03/2017 – Prof. Bartlett wins the Iowa State University Research Day Lightening Talk session

02/2017 – Paper on Thermally conductive liquid metal composites published

2016

10/2016 – Morgan and Cole JOIN THE LAB

9/2016 – Paper on Wearable Biomonitoring published

9/2016 – Ravi, Dohgyu, Katie and Matt join the lab

9/2016 – SMS Lab Website Established