Advanced Materials Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AMAML)
Welcome!
Thanks for visiting our group webpage!
We are starting a group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Georgia (UGA) (2023-) before relocating from Manufacturing Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) (2017-2023), interacting frequently with scientists and engineers from fields in Physics, Chemistry, and other Engineering disciplines (e.g., Mechanical, Aerospace, Materials, Chemical, Electrical, Sustainability, Medical). Our target is to explore polymer-based composite and polymer-nanoparticle hybrid materials through advanced manufacturing regarding their design, fabrication, characterization, and, simulation. We are interested in fundamental science and practical applications to establishing the manufacturing-structure-property-performance relationships in structural and functional systems.
Feel free to send questions, comments, and collaboration intentions to kenan.song@uga.edu
We gratefully acknowledge support from the following Federal Government Funding Agencies
Department of Energy (DOE) (2024, PI)
Department of Health Services (DHS) Early Investigator Award (2023-2026, PI)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) award (2023, PI)
NSF Future Manufacturing (2022-2024, Co-PI with PI Xiangfan Chen)
NSF CAREER (2022-2027, PI)
Qatar National Research Fund, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) (2022-2025, PI)
DOD ONR (2022-2024, PI; 2023-20225, PI)
DOD ONR STTR (2022-2023, Co-PI with PI AM Kannan)
DOD AFOSR (2022-2023, PI)
BSF (2022-2025, PI)
NSF MRI (2022-205, co-PI)
NSF EFRI (2021-2025, co-PI)
NSF (2021-2022, PI)
NSF EAGER (2019-2022, PI)
DoD - Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) & Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) (2019-2021, Co-PI)
We gratefully acknowledge support from the following Academia & Industry & Philanthropy Partners:
2023 Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care Collaborative Research Seed Grant (2023-2024, PI)
Zimin Foundation (2022-2023, PI)
Women and Philanthropy (2022-2023, PI)
ACS PRF ND (2021-2023, PI)
MECHnano (2020-2022, PI)
Salt River Project (2021-2022, PI)
Mayo Clinic (2021, PI)
ASU Knowledge of Enterprise Development (KED) (2021, PI)
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) (2021, PI)
FACE Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Fund (TJF) (2020-2024, PI)
The City of Phoenix, Public Works Department (2019, PI)
ASU Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service & Global Institute of Sustainability (2018-2020, PI)
ASU Research Enterprise (ASURE) (2019, PI)
KEEN Foundation (2018, PI)
ASU Global Sport Institute (GSI) (2017-2022, PI)
We also give many thanks to our collaborators for their support:
At UGA:
At ASU:
In Arizona:
Dr.'s Jessica Lancaster, David G Lott, Jeffrey L Cornella, and Johnny Yi, at Mayo Clinic
Around the world:
Guillaume Miquelard‐Garnier Group, PIMM - Arts et Métiers (Paris, France)
Hassan M. Dessouky, Galala University (Suez, Egypt)
Mohammad K. Hassan Lab, Qatar University (Doha, Qatar University)
Orit Shefi Group, Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel)
Ralf Riedel, Technische Universität Darmstadt (University in Darmstadt, Germany)
Yuval Golan Group, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-sheeba, Israel)
News
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2024/04/01, Congrats to Dharnee Ravichandran, for being awarded the 2023-2024 AIChE Area Award for Graduate Student Research Award.
2024/03/28, Congrats to Arunachalam Ramanathan for being awarded the NSF Travel Award for the 2024 International Advanced Manufacturing Conference (NAMRC 52/MSEC 2024), which will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee, June 17-21, 2024.
2024/03/13, Kenan Song has been selected for the UGA Faculty Fellow Award!
2023/11/15, Kenan Song has been admitted into the Spring 2024 cohort of the Compass leadership and management training and mentoring program!
2023/10/04, Congrats to the UGA team led by Kenan Song for the IIPA pre-seed grant for the workshop, seminar, and conference organizations.
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2024/02/15, Congrats to Ph.D. Yuxiang Zhu for receiving the ASU Graduate Research Travel Grant to attend the American Chemical Society Spring 2024 Meeting in New Orleans, LA, 3/17/24-3/21/24.
2024/02/08, Congrats to our Ph.D. student Varunkumar Thippanna on the Experimental Learning Grant to attend The Minerals, Metals, Materials Society Conference in Orlando, FL from March 03-07, 2024.
2023/11/30, Congrats to Dharnee Ravichandran, who has been considered and selected as a recipient of a Graduate College Completion Fellowship for Spring 2024. Well deserved, Dharnee!
2023/11/01, Congrats to Yuxiang Zhu for the selection of the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium (2024 Spring ACS national meeting in New Orleans, LA) award!
2023/07/10, Congrats to Dharneedar Ravichandran for being selected for AICHE 8A’s Excellence in Graduate Research Symposium! See you at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting!
2023/06/20, Congrats to Dharneedar Ravichandran for winning FIRST PLACE at the ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC 2023) Doctoral Symposium! Super impressive!
2023/05/05, Kenan Song has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at ASU.
2023/04/17, our group has been awarded the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Summer Research Team Program award that involves the training of two US students regarding "A Novel 3D Printing Mechanism for Rapid Prototyping Personalized Protective Equipment as Response to Chemical and Biological Exposures".
2023/02/28, Congrats on Sayli Jambhulkar's Ph.D. defense before starting her job at Intel (Chandler AZ).
2023/01/10, Nathan Fonseca received the Summer 2023 IRES project: Exploring bio-based plastics and materials through collaborative research in Japan!
2023/01/02, Kenan Song received the 2023 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from SME.
2022/11/16, Congrats to Dharneedar Ravichandran for the selection of the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium (2023 Spring ACS national meeting in Indianapolis) award!
2022/10/16, Kenan Song will give an invited talk at the Polymers and Nanotechnology organized by ACS.
2022/08/27, Congrats to Dharneedar Ravichandran and Dhanush Patil for the GPSA Travel Grant Program (2022-2023) award!
2022/08/20, Kenan Song will give an invited talk at the science forum organized by CUHK.
2022/08/18, Welcome to Ph.D. students Varunkumar Thippanna, Nathan Fonseca, and Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli joining our group.
2022/08/04, Congrats to Dharneedar Ravichandran who has received ICAM Conference Travel Awards ($1,000 for a trip to Orlando, FL) from ASU!
2022/07/27, Congrats to Nathan Fonseca who has received Gordon Conference Travel Awards ($1,000 for a trip to Ventura, CA) from ASU!
2022/06/17, Congrats on Weiheng Xu's Ph.D. defense! Weiheng will return to China to unite with his happy family after a 3-year-long separation due to COVID-19.
2022/05/04, Congrats to Varunkumar Thippana (2022 summer), Arunachalam Ramanathan (2022 summer), and Barath Sundaradivelan (2022 fall) for their ASU MORE project funding!
2022/05/04, Congrats to Yuxiang Zhu and Dharneedar Ravichandran who have received ASME Conference Travel Awards ($1,000 each) from ASU!
2022/05/02, see our invited research article (Multi-material 3D printing-enabled multilayers for smart actuation via magnetic and thermal stimuli†) From the themed collection: Journal of Materials Chemistry C Emerging Investigators.
2022/05/01, see our mini review on the special issue: Excellence in Early Career Research (2021) POLYMER INTERNATIONAL.
2022/04/29, Kenan Song has been selected as the finalist for the prestigious SAMPE North America Young Professionals Emerging Leadership Award (YPELA) and the 2022 Young Professional of the Year Award!
2022/04/22, Congrats on Sayli's ASU 2022 Fall Ph.D. Completion Fellowship! This ASU Graduate College Completion Fellowship is super competitive and Sayli deserves this.
2022/04/03, Congrats on the NSF GFRP award (Engineering - Manufacturing Engineering category for 3 years) to the Ph.D. student Nathan Fonseca!
2022/04/03, Kenan Song will give an invited talk at an ACS POLY-sponsored workshop, "Polymers and Nanotechnology 2022" (Napa, California, Oct. 16-19, 2022)
2022/04/01, We thank the Women & Philanthropy grants ($50k, 2022-2023) for supporting our POP scaffold engineering research! (Really? It is the April Fools' Day!)
2022/03/30, Congrats on Sayli's entering as the finalist of the ASU Faculty Women’s Association Distinguished Graduate Student Award 2022.
2022/03/21, thanks to the NSF grant, we financially supported ten junior faculty and ten students from the underrepresented groups for the 2022 Spring ACS Conference.
2022/03/02, M.C. Karla Garcia Verdugo (from the University of Sonora) is welcome to join us at AMAML, ASU, as a visiting scholar in the next 6 months!
2022/03/01, Kenan Song has been selected as a 2022 PMSE Young Investigator Awardee! https://twitter.com/acspmse/status/1500933573070708744/photo/1
2022/02/28, Congrats on the Dean’s Fellowship award (from Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks for 2 years from 2022 the fall semester) to the Ph.D. student Nathan Fonseca!
2022/02/26, Kenan Song has been selected for the Emerging Researcher Award at the 2nd International Conference on Materials & Manufacturing, organized by Engineered Science Publisher, USA
2022/02/25, Kenan Song has been selected to join the Editorial Board of Materials Today Communications (MTCOMM).
2022/02/21, Congrats on Sayli's travel award for the APS 2022 short course "Sustainable Polymers: Physics of New Materials, Design for Sustainability, and End-of-Life"
2022/02/16, Kenan Song will give an invited talk "Layered Composites via 1D, 2D and 3D Manufacturing for Sustainability” at SM3!
2022/02/09, Congrats to Sayli Jhambulkar for the GPSA Travel Grant Program (2021-2022) award!
2022/01/05, Congrats to Ph.D. student Weiheng Xu for being awarded the 2022-2023 Global Sport Institute (GSI) Seed Grant Program.
2022/01/01, Welcome to Ph.D. student Dhanush Patil joining our group.
2022/01/01, Kenan Song has been selected as the editorial board member for the journal of Engineered Science (https://www.espublisher.com/journals/id/engineered-science?view_section=editorial_board)
2021/12/23, Congrats to B.S. Nathan Fonseca for the 2022 Spring-Summer FURI funding.
2021/12/07, Congrats to Sayli Jhambulkar for the Fall 2021 GPSA Outstanding Research Award!
2021/11/24, we thank NSF for the NSF CAREER award for supporting our 3D printing development! see the ASU news: https://news.asu.edu/20220502-3d-printing-nanoscale-produces-powerful-possibilities
2021/11/15, Congrats to Sayli Jambhulkar on his 2022 Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research award from 2022 ACS! Sayli will give a presentation at the ACS Spring 2022 national meeting!
2021/11/15-16, Kenan Song will give an INVITED TALK: 3D Printing-assisted Carbon and MXene Assembly (Kenan Song) at the 2nd Graphene and Catalyst Summit (Graphene Summit 2021 (2nd Edition), 2nd Global Virtual Summit on Carbon, Graphene, 0D, 1D, and 2D materials, Theme: “A stronger and greener future with graphene”)
2021/11/03, Kenan Song will give an INVITED TALK: 3D Printed Polymer Surfaces for Nanoparticle Assembly (Kenan Song) at MCROMEX2021 (http://sociedadpolimerica.org.mx/macromex2021/#plenaristas).
2021/10/26, Kenan Song was selected as the Featured Faculty Mentor for ASU FURI&MORE programs (https://furi.engineering.asu.edu/faculty_mentor/kenan-song/).
2021/11/12, Congrats to our participation to be on the team led by Prof Tim Long on the NSF EFRI grant!
2021/09/01, the Hamilton High Schooler, Xenia Zhao, working in our lab as a summer intern, has been admitted by MIT Computer Science and Economics!
2021/09/01, the BASIS CHANDLER Schooler, Areeb Alam, working in our lab as a summer intern, has been admitted by UPen Computer Science!
2021/08/07, Kenan Song will give an invited talk on Global Forum Speakers, Frontiers of Chemical Engineering.
2021/07/20, Darius Hampton-Ross was awarded the 2021-22 ASU/NASA Space Grant Interns.
2021/05/19, Mounika Kakarla was awarded the Masters Opportunity for Research in Engineering (MORE) seed grants for the 2021 summer semester.
2021/05/10, Mohammed Bawareth, Darius Hampton-Ross, and Kevin Johnson were awarded the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) grants for the 2021 fall and 2022 spring semesters.
2021/05/06, Kenan Song was selected to join the ASU Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service Faculty Affiliate Network (RMWSSS) for collaborative projects!
2021/05/05, Kenan Song received the Mayo Clinic ASU Summer Residency Award and Mayo Clinic Affiliated Research Associate.
2021/04/27, Kenan Song was awarded the Center for Complex System Safety (CCSS) seed grant.
2021/02/01, Congrats to Weiheng Xu on his 2021 Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research award from 2021 ACS! Weiheng will give a presentation at the ACS Spring 2021 national meeting!
2021/01/01, our Journal of Materials Chemistry C (JMCC) paper (Integrating 3D printing and self-assembly for layered polymer/nanoparticle microstructures as high-performance sensors†) was listed as one of the hot publications in 2020.
2021/01/01, Kenan Song was awarded the GSI 2021 Seed Grant.
2020/12/31, Pruthviraj Vala was awarded ASU Fulton Schools' MORE seed funding.
2020/12/01, Congrats to Kenan Song on his Knowledge Exchange for Resilience Fellowship!
2020/11/01, Congrats to Sayli Jambhulkar on her TPS milestone award!
2020/09/01, Congrats to Kenan Song and Prof. Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier from Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Le CNAM), Paris, France, for their award of Thomas Jefferson Fund (2019-2021) by the FACE Foundation!
2020/06/01, Congrats to B.S. Jacob Friedman & Andrew Walsh for the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) funding (2020 Summer and 2021 Spring).
2020/05/10, Congrats to AMAML for getting involved in Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives (DII) s a component of the Fulton Schools’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Plan (https://engineering.asu.edu/diversity/ ).
2020/01/29, Congrats to B.S. Dean Spyres for the 2020SPRING FURI funding (https://furi.engineering.asu.edu/faculty_mentor/kenan-song/).
2020/01/16, Welcome to Ph.D. student Yuxiang Zhu joining our group.
2020/01/01, Dr. Kenan Song and Ph.D. student Weiheng Xu were awarded the GSI 2020 Grants.
2019/08/22, Welcome to Ph.D. student Dharneedar Ravichandran joining our group.
2019/05/09-05/18, Kenan Song was invited as a visiting scholar to PIMM in Paris, France, for research talks and collaborations.
2019/05/01, Welcome to Ph.D. student Amm Hasib joining our group. Amm Hasib will be co-supervised by Dr. Kenan Song and Dr. Bruno Azeredo.
2019/05/01, Thanks to the Polytechnic School, Fulton Schools of Engineering, ASU, for delivering our lab (which took one and half years)!
2019/04/26, Congrats to M.S. Rahul Franklin & M.S. Namrata Kanth for the 2019Fall MORE funding.
2019/04/22, Welcome Prof. Yuval Golan from Ben-Gurion University to visit our group and TPS, ASU! His seminar is "Nanomaterials at Interfaces: Wet Chemical Routes for Size, Shape and Orientation Controlled Nanomaterials".
2019/01/29, Dr. Kenan Song was awarded the GSI 2019 Seed Grant.
2018/12/20, Welcome to Ph.D. student Sayli Jambhulkar joining our group.
2018/11/02, Congrats to M.S. Rahul Verma on his successful defense.
2018/10/11, Dr. Kenan Song was awarded the Faculty Fellowship: http://www.ff2israel.org/index.php
2018/08/16, Congrats to M.S. Rushik Tank for the 2018Fall & 2019Spring MORE funding (https://furi.engineering.asu.edu/faculty_mentor/kenan-song/).
2018/08/08, Welcome to Ph.D. student Weiheng Xu joining our group.
2018/01/15, Dr. Kenan Song was awarded the Kern Project with a Kern Professorship (https://engineeringunleashed.com/profile/view/1562)
2018/01/11, Dr. Kenan Song was awarded the GSI Sport 2036 Research Funding.