The RPS Lab had the pleasure of hosting multiple undergraduate students this summer. Today, they presented their work during the RI Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.

I am always impressed with the hard work and dedication these students bring to the programs and was even more impressed with the amount of progress they have all made!

The projects presented from our group include:

• Hao Chen, Chemical Engineering, University of Houston: Solvent and Temperature Effects on the Stability of Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles with Varying Polymer Molecular Weights
• Rowan Bixler, Physics, Amherst College: Developing an Optical Microscopy Method for Identifying Microplastics in Environmental Samples
• Gabriel Stradtman, Mechanical Engineering, URI: Elucidating the Printability of Soft Materials in 3D Printing
• Liam Kennings, Biomedical Engineering, URI: Conductive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Soft Actuators