Kessler named ASME Fellow
Michael KesslerPULLMAN, Wash. – Michael Kessler, Berry Family director and professor in Washington State University’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering (MME), has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. <More>
YouTube video showing our multifunctional liquid crystalline networks respond to heat or light
Michael KesslerMultifunctional smart polymers research featured
Michael KesslerOur paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces titled “Photoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Epoxy Networks with Shape Memory Behavior and Dynamic Ester Bonds” (doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b04374) has received significant “buzz” in the popular media. Starting with a press release by WSU News, released on June 30, the article has been picked up and re-reported by the following sources:
- Materials Today
- Popular Science
- Materials Rsearch Society (Materials360)
- R&D Magazine
- DPA Magazine
- Business Standard
- Engineering.com
- The Department of Energy – Office of Science homepage (science.energy.gov)
- The Daily Evergreen
- The Financial Express
- Science Daily
- Phys.org
- AZOM Materials
- Silicon Republic
- India Today
- The Free Press Journal
- Can-India
- Daiji World
- The Statesman
- Sify News
- Gizmag
- Nanowerk
- Crazy Engineers
- Converter News
- Last Minute Geek
- E!Science
- EurekAlert!
- Pullman Radio
- HT syndication
- Tasnim News Agency
- Zee News
- Daily Mail
Congratulations to Jonathan Moore – Outstanding Sophomore
Michael KesslerJonathan Moore, who is working as an undergraduate research assistant in the group, was recently recognized at the college’s annual convocation ceremony last week as the Outstanding Sophmore in the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture at Washington State University. Jonathan Moore, who’s from Milton, Wash., works with PhD student Mitch Rock conducting research on aligned carbon nanotube sheets, gives tours as an Honors Hall ambassador, is Honors Hall president and is on the Associated Students of WSU senate. <more>
Handbook of Composites from Renewable Materials
Michael KesslerOur new 8 volume Handbook of Composites from Renewable Materials (ISBN: 978-1-119-22436-5) published by Wiley is available starting August 2016. Learn more at the Publisher’s Website.