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Congratulations to Dr. Govind Rajan and Professor Blankschtein for their recent work appearing in the journal Nature Materials, which was featured on the MIT Homepage and MIT News!
Thu, 01/17/2019

Recent work by Dr. Ananth Govind Rajan and Professor Daniel Blankschtein appeared in the journal Nature Materials, and was featured on the MIT Homepage and...

Ananth Govind Rajan successfully defended his doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
Tue, 12/18/2018

Ananth Govind Rajan successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Atomistic Modeling and Simulations of 2D Materials: Chemical Vapor Deposition, Nanoporous Defects, Force-Field Development, Wetting, and Friction" on December 18th, 2018. Ananth will be headed to Princeton University starting...

Congratulations to Ananth Govind Rajan for being awarded the first prize in the Carbon Nanomaterials Graduate Student Award Session at the AIChE 2018 Meeting!
Thu, 11/01/2018
Dr. Satish Kumar Iyemperumal has joined the DB Group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Welcome!
Mon, 07/02/2018

Dr. Satish Kumar Iyemperumal has joined the DB Group as a Postdoctoral Associate. Dr. Iyemperumal completed his PhD from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), where he worked with Professor N. Aaron Deskins. We welcome Satish to our group!

Annalisa Cardellini successfully defended her PhD Thesis, "Modeling of Multi-Scale Phenomena in Nanoparticle Suspensions", with a cum laude designation that is reserved for the top 10% of all doctoral theses at Politecnico di Torino! Congratulations!
Fri, 10/13/2017

Annalisa Cardellini successfully defended her PhD Thesis, "Modeling of Multi-Scale Phenomena in Nanoparticle Suspensions", with a cum laude designation that is reserved for the top 10% of all doctoral theses at Politecnico di Torino! Professor Blankschtein was a member of Annalisa's thesis...

Ananth Govind Rajan and Rahul Prasanna Misra spent three weeks in June visiting Europe to present their research at the Nanotech France 2017 conference in Paris, and to visit and deliver lectures to several research groups
Sat, 07/01/2017

Ananth Govind Rajan and Rahul Prasanna Misra spent three weeks in June visiting Europe to present their research at the Nanotech France 2017 conference in Paris, and  to visit and deliver lectures to the research groups of (i) Professor Roland Netz at FU Berlin, Germany, (ii) Professor Pietro...

Congratulations to Vishnu Sresht, Ananth Govind Rajan, and Professor Daniel Blankschtein for their recent work being featured on the cover of JPCC!
Thu, 04/27/2017

Recent work involving Vishnu Sresht, Ananth Govind Rajan, and Professor Daniel Blankschtein was featured on the cover of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!

This work involved the development of a molecular dynamics (MD)-based framework, using lattice dynamics...

Annalisa Cardellini successfully completed her one-year stay as a Visiting Graduate Student in the DB Group, and has returned to the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, to complete and defend her doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
Sat, 04/01/2017

Annalisa Cardellini successfully completed her one-year stay as a Visiting Graduate Student in the DB Group, and has returned to the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, to complete and defend her doctoral thesis. Congratulations!
 

Congratulations to Dr. Matthias Oberli and Professor Blankschtein for their work on lipid nanoparticles for mRNA vaccine delivery being featured on the cover of Nano Letters!
Mon, 03/13/2017

The DB Group's recent work on "Lipid Nanoparticle Assisted mRNA Delivery for Potent Cancer Immunotherapy" was featured on the cover page of Nano Letters. Congratulations to former postdoctoral fellow Dr. Matthias Oberli and Professor Daniel Blankschtein!

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Congratulations to Professor Chih-Jen Shih, former member of the DB Group, for being awarded the 2017 Victor K. LaMer Award!
Tue, 02/28/2017

Congratulations to Professor Chih-Jen Shih, a former member of the DB Group, currently an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, for being awarded the 2017 Victor K. LaMer Award! This award is given by the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry of the American Chemical Society (ACS)...