Roya's graduation
Decemeber 23'
Roya successfully defended her dissertation and recieved a Ph.D. in ME-EM. She will soon start a postdoc position at UCLA. Congratulations!
News
Paper in the Journal of Materials Research
October 23'
Our paper entitled "Conductive 3D nano-biohybrid systems based on densified carbon nanotube forests and living cells" is published open access in JMR ANNUAL ISSUE: Early Career Scholars in Materials Science, 2024 link here. Congratulations to Roya and all co-authors!
Finishing Fellowship
March 23'
Roya received the Michigan Tech Doctoral Finishing Fellowship for summer 2023. Read her story here. Congratulations!
Outstanding Scholarship Award
February 23'
Roya is a recipient of the Outstanding Scholarship Award in the ME-EM department. Congratulations!
Best Oral Presentation Award
February 23'
Roya presented at the Health Research Institute student forum and received one of the best oral presentation awards. Congratulations!
Book Chapter Published
Dec 22'
Read our book chapter entilted "High-Performance Supercapacitors Based on One-Dimensional Polymeric Nanocomposites" published in "One-Dimensional Polymeric Nanocomposites, Synthesis to Emerging Applications" by CRC press, now available online here.
Masoud Kasraie Graduated with a Ph.D. Degree
August 22'
Masoud successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Additive Manufacturing of Funcational Polymer Composites" and started working at Volvo as a Materials and Metallurgist Engineer. Congratulations, Dr. Kasraie!
Roya Successfully Defended Her Ph.D. Proposal
August 22'
Congratulations to Roya Bagheri for defending her Ph.D. proposal and getting one step closer to graduation.
Invited Speaker
August 22'
Dr. Abadi gave an online presentation at “The 2nd International School on Fine-scale Processes: Facing with 4th Industrial Revolution Technologies” as an invited speaker. The school was organized by the 5 top Iranian Universities of Technology.
Chemistry Seminar Series
April 22'
Dr. Abadi gave an in-person invited talk at the Chemistry Department at Michigan Tech.
Tarbiat Modares Invited Talk
March 22'
Dr. Abadi gave a remote invited talk at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran entitled "3D printing of conductive nanocomposites and their biomedical applications".
Roya at GRC
March 22'
Roya presented a poster and a podium talk on her research on nanomaterials and nanotechnologies for cardiac engineering at the Graduate Research Colloquium at Michigan Tech. She also received the Graduate Student Service Award. Congratulations!
Dr. Abadi recieves Michigan Tech Research Excellence Fund
December 21'
Congratulations to Dr. Abadi and team for receiving Research Excellence Fund - Research Seed grant from the MTU office of Vice President for Research. This grant will support the team's efforts on 3D printing using functional nanomaterials in 2022.
Dr. Abadi gave two presentations at University of Toledo and Missouri University of Science and Technology
December 21'
Dr. Abadi presented lab's research in the Mechanical Engineering Seminar at University of Toledo and the Chemistry Colloquium at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Roya received Outstanding Teaching Award
October 21'
Congratulations to Roya for receiving the Outstanding Teaching Award in the Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics department at Michigan Tech.
Roya presented at BMES and ACS-UP
October 21'
Roya presented her research on nano-biomaterials for cardiac tissue engineering at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2021 meeting in Orlando, FL and the Annual American Chemical Society (ACS) Upper Peninsula Student Research Symposium in Marquette, MI.
Masoud's paper is published and highlighted in the news
June 21'
Congratulations to Masoud for the acceptance of his paper entitled "Additive Manufacturing of Conductive and High-Strength Epoxy-Nanocaly-Carbon Nanotube Composites" in Additive Manufacturing. Read the article and the news about this article.
Masoud successfully defends his Ph.D. proposal
June 21'
Congratulations to Masoud for passing his Ph.D. proposal defense. He is now officialy a Ph.D. candidate and a step closer to graduation!
Roya Passed the Ph.D. Qualifier Exam
April 21'
Congratulations to Roya for successfully passing her PhD qualifier exam.
MRS Spring Meeting
April 21'
Masoud and Dr. Abadi attended the virtual Materials Research Society (MRS) spring meeting. Dr. Abadi presented the lab's research on 3D printing of conductive nanocomposites and chaired a session on "3D printing and Bioprinting".
GRC 2021
April 21'
Roya and Masoud gave oral presentations at the graduate research colloquium 2021. Masoud's presentation was on Additive Manufacturing of Nanocomposites and Roya presented on Nanomaterials for Cardiac Tissue Engineering.
NSF panel
April 21'
Dr. Abadi served on a National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal review panel.
AAUW panel
March 21'
Dr. Abadi served on a proposal review panel for the American Association of University Women. This is the organization that partially supported Dr. Abadi during her postdoc at Harvard.
Bioengineering Editorial Board
March 21'
Dr. Abadi joins the Editorial Board of Bioengineering, an open-access journal published by MDPI.
Journal Editing
March 21'
Dr. Abadi guest edits the 2021 special issue "Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Functional Polymers" in the International Journal of Polymer Science, an open-access journal published by Hindawi. It's open for submission here. The 2019 issue, which was also guest edited by Dr. Abadi, is available here.
MSE Holiday Card
December 20'
An SEM micrograph taken by Masoud from a sample prepared using the elastocapillary assembly technique by Masoud and Roya was selected for the MSE holiday card. Congratulations to Masoud and Roya! 
Masoud presented at ASTM ICAM
November 20'
Masoud presented at the ASTM International Conference on Additive Manufacturing. He was also selected as a finalist for the best presentation award. Congratulations! 
Masoud Receives GSG Travel Award
October 20'
Congratulations to Masoud for being awarded a Graduate Student Government Travel Grant to present at the ASTM ICAM 2020 Conference.
Masoud passed the PhD qualifier exam
August 20'
Congratulations to Masoud for successfully passing his PhD qualifier exam.
Abadi lab receives NSF award
July 20'
Dr. Abadi in cooperation with other Michigan Tech researchers receives NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) grant for Acquisition of Nanoscribe Photonic Professional GT2 3D Lithography System.
Dominika's URIP Award
April 20'
Congratulations to Dominika for receiving an Undergraduate Research Internship Program (URIP) award to perform research in our lab as a DeVlieg Foundation intern in the next academic year.
Masoud presented at the TMS conference
February 20'
Masoud attended the 2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition and presented a poster about his work on 3D printing using conductive nanomaterials.
NSF Review Panel
January 20'
Dr. Abadi traveled to Washington D.C. to serve on an NSF review panel.
Invited Webinar
November 19'
Dr. Abadi gives an invited webinar on Nanobiotechnology at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey.
Masoud Receives GSG Travel Award
November 19'
Congratulations to Masoud for being awarded a Graduate Student Government Travel Grant to present at TMS 2020 Conference.
New Paper Released in Carbon
November 19'
Our paper entitled "Polyaniline-decorated hyaluronic acid-carbon nanotube hybrid microfiber as a flexible supercapacitor electrode material" is just accepted in Carbon and the pre-proof is available online here.
Wogrammer Interview
October 19'
Dr. Abadi's story from childhood to research in medicine was published on Wogrammer. Wogrammer is an organization that publishes stories of real women in tech to inspire girls to STEM. View Link
SES and BMES Conferences
October 19'
Dr. Abadi attended the Society of Engineering Sciences Annual Meeting (St. Louis, MO) and Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA). At BMES, she presented on nano-bioactuators and chaired a session on Stem Cell Microenvironment..
MRS Spring Meeting
April 19'
Amir presented a poster at Materials Research Society spring meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
Alicia Receives a 2019 URIP Award
April 19'
Congratulations to Alicia for another URIP award from Portage Health Foundation. This internship will support her third year of research in our lab during the academic year 2019-2020.
Invited Talk
March 19'
Dr. Abadi presented at Virginia Tech Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Seminar Series.
Student Presentations
March 19'
Ph.D. student, Rasoul Bayaniahangar, and Undergraduate students, Alicia Ball and Daniel Woodall, presented posters at the Michigan Tech Graduate Research Colloquium and the Michigan Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Frontiers Editorial Board
February 19'
Dr. Abadi joins the Editorial Board of Nanobiotechnology for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Materials and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.
Amir Receives GSG Travel Award
February 19'
Congratulations to Amir for being awarded a Graduate Student Government Travel Grant to present at MRS spring meeting.
Dr. Abadi Serves as Journal Guest Editor and Conference Committee Member
January 19'
Dr. Abadi serves as a guest editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Polymer Science entitled "Syntheses and Biomedical Applications of Functional Polymers". She also serves as a technical committee member of the 9th International Conference on Key Engineering Materials (ICKEM 2019, Oxford, UK, March 29-April 1).
Amir Passes PhD Qualifying Exam
November 18'
Congratulations to Rasoul (Amir) Bayani Ahangar for successfully passing his PhD qualifying exam in the areas of microfabrication and mechanics of materials.
Michael Receives AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
November 18'
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Hill for receiving a postdoctoral fellowship from American Heart Association (AHA). This two-year grant will support his research in our group on cardiovascular tissue engineering using nanotechnologies.
BMES Conference 2018
October 18'
Dr. Abadi presents at Biomedical Engineering Society conference in Atlanta, Ga.
Alicia and Daniel Receive 2018 URIP Awards
August 18'
Congratulations to our undergraduate researchers, Alicia Ball (third year chemical eng.) and Daniel Woodall (fourth year MEEM), for URIP awards through Portage Health Foundation and Pavlis Honors College at Michigan Tech. This internship will support their research in our lab during the academic year 2018-2019.
Paper Published in Advanced Functional Materials and Featured on the Cover
March 18'
Congratulations to Dr. Abadi and Dr. Hill for publication of their paper in Advanced Functional Materials and featured on the cover. The paper reports novel techniques for using biophysical and biomechanical cues in production of mature cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells. Read the news about our article and group research in Michigan Tech News, Science Daily, Medical Xpress, News Medical, Technology Network, Bioengineer.org, Science Newsline, Medindia, Drugnews.in, and Medicalnewser.com.
Invited Talks
March 18'
Dr. Abadi gave invited talks at the Michigan Tech departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering.
Alicia and Josh Present at Michigan Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium
March 18'
Undergraduate students, Alicia Ball and Josh Loiselle, presented posters at the Michigan Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Presentation for Middle School Girls in Get WISE Program
February 18'
Dr. Abadi presents STEM activities for middle school girls in Get WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) program organized by the Center for Pre-College Outreach.
Alicia and Josh Receive 2017 URIP Awards
October 17'
Congratulations to our undergraduate trainees, Josh Loiselle (third year MEEM) and Alicia Ball (second year chemical eng.), for being selected as Portage Health Foundation Interns through the MTU Undergraduate Research Internship Program. This internship will support their health-related research in our lab during the academic year 2017-2018.
Grant from American Heart Association
July 17'
Dr. Abadi receives a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association (AHA). For the next three years, this grant will support the group research on development of hierarchical conductive structures for application in cardiovascular medical devices.
Abadi Lab is Born
July 17'
Abadi Lab is born in the department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech.