May 24'
Our paper entitled "Carbon nanotube as a conductive rheological modifier for carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy 3D printing inks" is published in Composites Part B: Engineering, 2024 link here. Congratulations to Masoud, Akash, and all co-authors!
April 24'
Our lab celebrated the graduation of three members in the spring 2024 commencement: Roya Bagheri, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering; Akash Gawde, M.S. Materials Science and Engineering, and Pranav Sathaye, M.S. Mechanical Engineering. Congratulations to all of them!
April 24'
Congratulations to Pranav for successfully defending his M.S. thesis entitled "ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUCTIVE NANOMATERIALS AS ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTUATORS"!
April 24'
Congratulations to Akash for successfully passing Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. qualifying exam!
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!
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!
March 23'
Roya received the Michigan Tech Doctoral Finishing Fellowship for summer 2023. Read her story here. Congratulations!
February 23'
Roya is a recipient of the Outstanding Scholarship Award in the ME-EM department. Congratulations!
February 23'
Roya presented at the Health Research Institute student forum and received one of the best oral presentation awards. Congratulations!
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.
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!
August 22'
Congratulations to Roya Bagheri for defending her Ph.D. proposal and getting one step closer to graduation.
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.
April 22'
Dr. Abadi gave an in-person invited talk at the Chemistry Department at Michigan Tech.
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".
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!
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.
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.
October 21'
Congratulations to Roya for receiving the Outstanding Teaching Award in the Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics department at Michigan Tech.
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.
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.
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!
April 21'
Congratulations to Roya for successfully passing her PhD qualifier exam.
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".
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.
April 21'
Dr. Abadi served on a National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal review 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.
March 21'
Dr. Abadi joins the Editorial Board of Bioengineering, an open-access journal published by MDPI.
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.
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! 
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! 
October 20'
Congratulations to Masoud for being awarded a Graduate Student Government Travel Grant to present at the ASTM ICAM 2020 Conference.
August 20'
Congratulations to Masoud for successfully passing his PhD qualifier exam.
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.
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.
February 20'
Masoud attended the 2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition and presented a poster about his work on 3D printing using conductive nanomaterials.
January 20'
Dr. Abadi traveled to Washington D.C. to serve on an NSF review panel.
November 19'
Dr. Abadi gives an invited webinar on Nanobiotechnology at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey.
November 19'
Congratulations to Masoud for being awarded a Graduate Student Government Travel Grant to present at TMS 2020 Conference.
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.
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
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..
April 19'
Amir presented a poster at Materials Research Society spring meeting in Phoenix, AZ.
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.
March 19'
Dr. Abadi presented at Virginia Tech Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Seminar Series.
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.
February 19'
Dr. Abadi joins the Editorial Board of Nanobiotechnology for Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Materials and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences.
February 19'
Congratulations to Amir for being awarded a Graduate Student Government Travel Grant to present at MRS spring meeting.
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).
November 18'
Congratulations to Rasoul (Amir) Bayani Ahangar for successfully passing his PhD qualifying exam in the areas of microfabrication and mechanics of materials.
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.
October 18'
Dr. Abadi presents at Biomedical Engineering Society conference in Atlanta, Ga.
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.
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.
March 18'
Dr. Abadi gave invited talks at the Michigan Tech departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering.
March 18'
Undergraduate students, Alicia Ball and Josh Loiselle, presented posters at the Michigan Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium.
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.
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.
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.
July 17'
Abadi Lab is born in the department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech.