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This week, members of the Davidson Lab traveled to Anaheim and presented at the 2025 American Physical Society March Meeting.
Alice presented a talk and poster on her work in polymer alignment through block copolymer 3D printing. Emily O. presented a talk on her work in self-assembly of liquid crystals.
We are proud of our lab…
Congratulations to David, Jacob, and Sahana for passing their First Proposition exams and officially becoming Ph.D. candidates!
Princeton Engineering featured the work of graduate student Alice Fergerson on 3D printing block copolymers to achieve tunable local mechanical properties in a single recyclable and reprocessable material. You can find the article to read…
The PAW (Princeton Alumni Weekly) wrote an article on Prof. Davidson's new multidisciplinary elective course ‘Plastics, Profit, and People: How Science and Society Can Strive for Sustainability’. You can find it here!
Angie will be completing her senior thesis work as part of the Davidson lab printing team. Kaitlyn will be studying catalyst activity for research in sustainable polymers. Welcome to the lab, Angie and Kaitlyn!
Congratulations to Jiaen for passing her First Proposition exam and officially becoming a Ph.D. candidate! 💜
Amy is a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, co-advised by Professor Rodney D. Priestley. She completed her doctoral studies at Rowan University (Ph.D. 2024 in Chemical Engineering) and Drexel University under Professor Giuseppe R. Palmese. We are happy to welcome Amy to the Davidson Lab!
The Davidson Lab is proud to happy to congratulate our senior undergraduates, Ben, Ariana, Lawrence, David, Jake, and Callie, for presenting their senior theses and graduating! We wish our newly graduated members all the best in their future endeavors.
On Class Day, Lawrence and Callie both received awards for their outstanding work in materials.
Lawrence received the PMI Senior Thesis Award in recognition of his outstanding senior thesis work in materials. Callie received the Outstanding Materials Student Award in recognition of combined excellence in academics, research, and…
Alice gave a talk about directed self-assembly of thermoplastic elastomers via 3D printing at the 2024 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in Seattle.
Congrats to Alice for her excellent research presentation!
Congrats to Kirstin for their excellent presentation, "Stimuli-responsive materials: from liquid crystallinity to depolymerization," for their third year seminar!
The Davidson Lab is proud to announce that two undergraduate lab members, Callie and David B., are now NSF GRFP recipients. We are also happy to congratulate previous lab members, Christine and Hannah, for receiving the NSF GRFP. Congratulations all, we are excited to see your future work!
Alice, Emily O., and Sahana presented posters at the annual Princeton Materials Institute Symposium. Alice won the 2nd place prize for her poster, "Tailoring 3DP-Induced Anisotropy in Elastomeric Block Copolymers." Congratulations Alice!
Several members of the Davidson Lab traveled to Minneapolis and presented their work at the 2024 American Physical Society March Meeting.
Congratulations to Emily D. for organizing a successful APS DPOLY short course, "Polymer Physics of Additive Manufacturing," this week!
Clement and Emily O. presented a talk and poster,…
Congratulations to Emily O. for passing her First Proposition exam and officially becoming a Ph.D candidate!
Eva is joining our lab and studying liquid crystal phase behavior. Welcome to the lab, Eva!
The Davidson Lab is excited to welcome three new graduate students, David, Jacob, and Sahana! David will be studying the effects of small molecule additives in liquid crystal elastomers. Jacob is co-advised with the Webb Lab and will be working on modelling liquid crystal oligomers. Sahana is co-advised with the Priestley Lab and will be…
Congrats to postdoc Shawn Maguire for winning an award for Best Poster at MRS this Fall for his poster titled "A Butadiene-Derived Semicrystalline Polyolefin with Two-Tiered Chemical Recyclability"
Welcome to our newest postdoc Hee Jae Choi! Hee Jae has joined our group after completing his PhD with Prof. Sang Ouk Kim at the KAIST.
Congratulations to Kirstin for passing their generals exam and officially becoming a Ph.D. candidate!
Christine is an REU student working on synthesizing and studying chemically recyclable polymers, and Masha is a Princeton EE student working on designing various devices for our 3D printing teams. We are excited to have them both join our lab for the summer!
Emily received the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science's Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award. The award recognizes excellence in research and teaching for junior faculty. Congratulations Emily!
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Kitty presented a poster on her senior thesis work in collaboration with Professor Paulino in CEE. Her thesis work used liquid crystal elastomers to thermally actuate an origami tube, along with theoretical simulations of the mechanics of the origami design. Congrats to Kitty for finishing a fantastic thesis!
The Davidson Lab is very proud to have two NSFGRFP recipients this year! Kirstin Bode received the award for their project using polyglyoxylates as a model system to study the kinetics and thermodynamics of depolymerization in self-immolative polymers. Emily Ostermann received the award for her project on the effect of network heterogeneity on…
Congratulations to our undergraduate researcher Callie Zheng! Callie was awarded an award for having the best poster within the entire DPOLY division at APS! The poster looks at the effect of small molecule additives on liquid crystal elastomer phase transition behavior.
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Jake is joining our lab to work on liquid crystal monomer synthesis, and David is joining our high energy storage 3d printed capacitor project. Welcome to the lab!
Aimane joins our lab to work on a project led by Professor Moini (CEE) and Professor Davidson. Welcome to the lab, Aimane!
We are happy to welcome Jiaen and Emily O. to the Davidson Lab! We are excited to see where your research takes you!
We are happy to welcome Emily W. to the Davidson Lab!
Our lab will be conducting research towards a project entitled "Dielectric performance of polymer nanocomposite heterostructures for high energy storage capacitors" in a collaboration with Nihar Pradhan at Jackson State University.
The funding to support this collaboration comes from the Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research…
Ariana will be joining our growing team of technical undergraduates working on a wide range of projects relating to our 3D printer!
Kitty will be completing her senior thesis work in the Davidson Lab on a project on LCE actuated origami in a collaboration with Professor Paulino in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department here at Princeton.
Ben will be rejoining the Davidson Lab again this year to continue working on several mechanical and electrical projects, mostly related to our lab's main 3D printer!
Kirstin joins our lab as a second year from the Chemistry department, and will be working on the synthesis and analysis of self-immolative block copolymer systems. Welcome to the lab!
Congratulations to Emily for receiving the DOE Early Career Research Program Award for a project entitled “Molecular and Network Design of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Elastocalorics”. This project aims to reduce the heterogeneity in LCE networks to make significant improvements in their unique phase change and actuation behavior. A specific goal…
Congratulations to Alice for giving her first public research talk, entitled "Utilizing 3D-Printing to Tailor Structural and Mechanical Anisotropy in Block Copolymers" at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of ACS!
Daniel Simone will be joining us this summer to work on configuring many pieces of equipment, primarily relating to our primary 3D printer.
Welcome to Callie Zheng and Lawrence Azzariti, two rising juniors in the CBE department who are joining us for summer research projects!
Congratulations to our lab’s first senior thesis undergraduates for graduating and successfully presenting their senior thesis projects! We are excited to see where you go after Princeton!
The Davidson Lab, along with Reza Moini of CEE and Sujit Datta of CBE at Princeton, have received funding from the Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund to support the development and study of a novel hydrogel and concrete composite material with hierarchical porosity, designed to increase water uptake and mitigate flooding in urban areas. We…
Clement Chan has joined our group as a post-doc after completing his PhD with Silvia Vignolini at the University of Cambridge. Welcome Clement!
Congratulations to Alice and Zach for passing their First Proposition exams, making them our group's very first PhD candidates!
The Davidson lab was awarded funding for a new research project via the Project X Innovation Award. This new research project will focus on developing control over the microstructure of 3D printed materials at a sub-filament level by coupling reactive polymerization induced phase separation with 3D printing. We are excited to get to work on…
Colin Brown is a sophomore in the CBE department who is joining our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Colin!
Welcome to our new postdoc Shawn Maguire! Shawn is joining us after completing his PhD in Russ Composto's group at Penn.
Anahi & Derek, seniors in Princeton CBE department, are joining our lab for their senior thesis projects! Welcome!!
Welcome, to our first graduate students Alice and Zach! We're excited to see everything you'll do in the coming years!
As of January 1, 2021 Emily is officially an Assistant Professor at Princeton University!