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Demonstrating the power of HIM at the MaterialenNL conference All of the HIM family congratulates our PhD student Duygu for her presentation at the NWO Physics conference on the 4th of April. Her presentation regarding her research on the photothermal snap-through of liquid crystalline networks captivated an audience of 1450 physicists from all over Netherlands. […]

Another inspiring afternoon was had at the TU/e with Dr. Danqing Liu’s presentation of her group’s recent work at the IPM colloquium. The pride of the group members in seeing their work presented to a broader audience was palpable. In fact, PhD students from Danqing’s group were seen beaming uncontrollable smiles as their work went

History was made as Mert Astam, Dr. Danqing Liu’s PhD student, won both the public vote and jury’s prize for best pitch at the 3rd ICMS PhD publication competition. Mert’s win of the public vote was announced first by the jury and was met with modest cheering from his group. Mert’s group suspected this win

“Why do I do what I do?” is an ancient and universal question humanity frequently asks itself. For the researchers at the TU/e, the answer is very clear: positive social impact. The strong motivation towards this goal was reflected in the latest meeting on the technologies for people with deafblindness, organized by prof. Astrid Kappers

Danqing and her group were going about their daily business around the department of chemical engineering and chemistry (CE&C) until Danqing noticed a familiar face at the staircase… it was her PhD student, Dongyu! Regularly, this would not be a very special occurrence, yet what Danqing saw was not Dongyu herself, but a great testament

The H.I.M. group congratulates PhD student Pengrong Lyu on freshly published paper on robotic pick-and-place operations in multifunctional liquid crystal elastomers! Make sure to catch all the details here. Pengrong’s work highlights the potential of liquid crystal materials in the soft robotics scene and has been shared by Advanced Sciences News themselves. In fact, Pengrong’s

Glasses were lifted in celebration on Friday as Dr. Danqing Liu banded her group together to celebrate her PhD student Mert Orhan Astam’s win of the 3rd ICMS PhD publication competition. This celebration was made extra special with the attendance of Mert’s family! All could feel a strong bond forming between group and family as

Demonstrating the power of HIM at the MaterialenNL conference 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

Taking science beyond child’s play Imagine you were 10 years old again. How do you think it would have felt like to do experiments together with the researchers at the TU/e? Well, this question is best asked to the kids! Dr Danqing Liu and her PhD students Mert Astam, Pengrong Lyu, Duygu Polat and senior