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We’re excited to share that Duygu represented our lab at the 2024 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, held December 1–6 in Boston, Massachusetts. This event brought together more than 6,000 researchers to exchange cutting-edge developments and ideas across a broad range of topics of material science. On December 4, Duygu gave an oral presentation titled “An Autonomous Snapper with […]

We are excited to announce that the HIM research group will be participating in the upcoming International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference 2025 with a contributed talk and poster presentations! ILCEC 2025 is bringing together the researchers from diverse backgrounds in materials science to share the recent advancements in reconfigurable network chemistries, materials physics, localization of

Jacques becomes the prize-winning face of HIM at the SPIE conference! All of the HIM family congratulates our PhD student Jacques for his performance at the SPIE Photonics Europe conference in Strasbourg. His research regarding liquid crystal optics and photonics devices and turned heads at the conference, and he was awarded the second prize in

The HIM group congratulates Mert, Pengrong and Duygu for their new publications and top-of-the-line covers! The HIM group is very proud to announce that its PhD candidates, Mert Astam, Pengrong Lyu and Duygu Polat, have recently published papers in the Matter, Nature Communications, Chemistry Europe and Extreme Mechanics Letters journals; this is some outstanding productivity!

Professor Broer becomes a double doctor! The legacy of the HIM group is built upon the grand achievements of our founders and forebearers! As Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This definitely applies for the HIM group, hence we take every opportunity to

The work of the researchers at the HIM group fascinates people far and wide, yet only a few get the pleasure of seeing and even feeling our technologies up close! Thus, when the HIM group was invited to present its demonstrators at the MaterialenNL conference, HIM PhD candidate Mert Astam went prepared to amaze. The

At the HIM group, we are working on hard on designing the future! Our development of material technologies aimed at interactivity with humans and devices is a prime example of the promising innovations that merit a place at the Dutch Design Week. This design event is the largest in Europe and draws in curious visitors

The HIM group is proud to announce that Jiahui Dong, a Post-Doctoral researcher within the HIM group, has been selected as the winner of the European Powder Metallurgy Association’s (EPMA) 2023 Powder Metallurgy Thesis Competition in the PhD category for her research on “Mg bone: ink extrusion-based additive manufacturing of Mg implants ”. In her

Technology is a crucial factor in the develop of a society both economically and socially. Robbert Dijkgraaf, minister of education, culture and science of the Netherlands shed light on this topic through his LinkedIn post, recognizing the potential of research groups like HIM in creating positive impact. He specifically mentioned the work of our group

At the HIM group, we celebrate our work as artfully as we do our research! Marking the end of another year of hard work with the coming of late summer, the HIM group embarked on an artistic journey to The Hague. With full minibuses and high spirits, the HIM group visited the Escher museum in