September 2025

• Lewice and Jazlyn Lopez Silva join the team as undergraduate student researchers.

• Prof. Joung received a faculty travel award from VCU CHS. 

August 2025

• Prof. Joung delivers a presentation at the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) meeting (Atlanta, GA).

June 2025

• Congratulations to Andy Shar, who joins the Duke MD/PhD Program this Fall. During his time in the group as an undergraduate researcher, he published five papers — an outstanding achievement.

• Shrouk Younis joins the team as an undergraduate student researcher.

May 2025

• Phillip Glass won the Excellence in Scholarship, Sciences and Mathematics from the College of Humanities and Sciences. This award is given to an individual who has contributed to their field of study and shows compelling evidence of contributions either by research, publications, poster sessions and/or conference attendance.

- Also highlighted in VCU Physics News. "Physics Student Phillip Glass wins CHS Student Award for Excellence in Scholarship"

• Prof. Joung visited the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) in Jeju, Republic of Korea.

• Prof. Joung visited the Department of Chemical Engineering at Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea.

• Prof. Joung visited the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST in Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

April 2025

• Our physics outreach story was posted on VCU News.  "Physics outreach program brings relatable science – and inspiration – to middle school students"

• Brandon Daul delivers a poster presentation at the  VCU Graduate Poster Symposium. "3D Printed Magnetic Origami Scaffold Guides Cellular Behavior in 3D Coculture Microenvironments"

• Anna Betz delivers a poster presentation at the  VCU Undergraduate Poster Symposium. "Optimizing Angular 3D-Printing Techniques for Dental Prosthetic Durability" 

• Congratulations to Lillian Thro, who received the VCU Fellowship for Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry (UROP).

• David Hassouna joins the team as a graduate student researcher.

February 2025

• Prof. Joung serves a Special Issue Editor in the International Journal of Bioprinting, "Multidisciplinary Efforts in Bioprinting" 

• Phillip's work was highlighted in VCU NEWS: "From fingers to toes, wearable and vibrating technology from VCU inventors could help Parkinson’s patients and others." It was also highlighted in VCU TechTransfer and Ventures. 

• Congratulations to our collaborator, Dr. Xuewei Wang of VCU's Chemistry Department, on securing the NIH NIBIB R01 grant (Ultrasensitive Ion-Selective Optodes for Self-Testing of Blood Electrolytes). We are a Co-Investigator on this project. 

January 2025

• Udena Epitawala Arachchige joins the team as a graduate student researcher.

December 2024

• Phillip Glass delivers an oral presentation at the MRS Fall Meeting (SB10: Soft Materials for Sensors and Actuators in e-textiles and e-skins), "A Flexible Electronics Platform Combining CNT Pressure Sensors and Flexible Tactors Creates a Synchronized Event-Cue Feedback Loop." 

• Phillip Glass delivers a poster presentation at the MRS Fall Meeting (PM2: Additive and Digital Manufacturing of Multifunctional Materials), "3D Printable One-Part Carbon Nanotube Elastomer and Flexible Frequency Tunable Tactors for Sensing-Actuation Platform." 

October 2024

• Phillip Glass recived People's choice award from the Three Minute Thesis Competition sponsored by VCU’s Graduate School.

• Anna Betz delivers a poster presentation at NURVa Undergraduate Research Conference: Enhancing the Durability of 3D-Printed Dental Prostheses for TMD Management.

• Prof. Joung presents a seminar to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at VCU.  

• Prof. Joung delivers a presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD).

• Shashi Kuruganti joins the team as an undergraduate student researcher.

August 2024

• Ryan Martin and Lillian Thro join the team as undergraduate student researchers.

July 2024

• Onur Sogutlu Joins the team as a high school research intern. 

• Prof. Joung was invited 2024 SK Innovation Global Forum (Carbon Materials) and gave a talk "3D Printing Carbon Composites for Flexible Electronics". 

May 2024

• Michael Nguyen and Anna Betz join the team as undergraduate student researchers.

• Prof. Joung delivers a presentation at the Virginia Academy of Science annual meeting.

April 2024

• Congratulations to Brandon Daul for becoming a PhD candidate!

• Phillip Glass and Brandon Daul deliver poster presentations at VCU Graduate Poster Symposium.

- Integrating Soft Tactile Sensors with Variable Resonance Flexible Tactors

- Bioprinted Tissue on a Chip using Stimuli-Responsive Nanomaterials

• Daniel Rhoades and Gabriel Bohannon deliver poster presentations at VCU Undergraduate Poster Symposium.

- Reshaping BioElectronics: Development of Flexible, Stretchable E-Skins through Additive Manufacturing and Finite Element Analysis

- Variable Resonance Frequency Flexible Vibrotactile Linear Actuators

• Prof. Joung receives VCU CHS SEED Award.

March 2024

• Congratulations to Andy Shar, who received a Barry Goldwater Scholarship for Excellence in Research. 

December 2023

• Prof. Joung delivers an invited talk at the Medical Wearables 2023.

• Prof. Joung has been included in Marquis Who's Who in America 2023. 

November 2023

• Daniel Rhoades delivers an oral presentation at NURVa Undergraduate Research Conference: Analysis of Wearable Biomedical Device Design Through Finite Element Analysis.

• Congratulations to Phillip Glass, who has been nominated to join Phi Kappa Phi honor society at VCU, an invitation only to VCU’s top 10 percent of graduate students.

October 2023

• Phillip's work was highlighted in VCU NEWS "3D-printed hairs: Ph.D. candidate, professor developing tiny sensors to detect flow and environmental changes."

- also featured in PHYS. ORG ,Printr.com, Nanowerk, Nano-Magazine, and VoxelMatters.

• Congratulations to Courtney Boyd, who received a Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) scholarship. 

September 2023

• Prof. Joung visits Doha, Qatar, for the Nanotextiles and Wearable Smart Sensors workshop. 

August 2023

• Congratulations to our collaborator, Dr. Xuewei Wang of VCU's Chemistry Department, on securing the NIH NIBIB R21 grant (calibration-free chemical sensors suitable for home use. We are a Co-Investigator on this project. 

May 2023

• Congratulations to Phillip Glass for becoming a PhD cadidate!

• Courtney Boyd joins the team as a graduate student researcher.

• Blake Greenbaum from Virginia Tech joins the team as a summer Undergraduate Intern.

April 2023

• Andy's work was highlighted in VCU NEWS "Biology major Andy Shar discovers 3D printable ink that ‘everyone was looking for,’ physics professor says."

- also featured in PHYS. ORG

• Congratulations to Andy Shar, who received the Future STEM Leaders of Virginia award at the 2023 Virginia Soft Matter (VSM) Workshop.

• Congratulations to Andy Shar, who received VCU Undergraduate Fellowships for Clinical and Translational Research.

• Andy Shar and Ethan Nguyen deliver poster presentations at VCU Undergraduate Poster Symposium.

- 3D Printable One-Part Carbon Nanotube-Elastomer Ink for Health Monitoring Applications

- 3D Topographical Maps via 3D Printed Artificial Cilia Hair Sensors

• Congratulations to Ethan Nguyen, who received a Baldacci Student Experiential Learning Endowed Fund.  

• Phillip Glass and Brandon Daul deliver poster presentations at VCU Graduate Poster Symposium.

- 3D Printed Artificial Cilia Arrays: a Versatile Mechanosensing Tool for Perception and Response

- Microchannel Effect on Cellular Growth Behavior

• Phillip Glass delivers a poster presentation at the Sustainable Energy and Environment Symposium. 

• Congratulations to Daniel Rhoades, who received VCU Fellowship for Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry (UROP).

• Congratulations to Gabriel Bohannon, who received Undergraduate Fellowship for You First at VCU: First-Generation Emerging Scholars.

• VCU CHS recognizes Prof. Joung for outstanding contributions to their scholarly field in 2022. 

March 2023

• Gabriel Bohannon joins the team as an undergraduate student researcher.

January 2023

• Daniel Rhoades joins the team as an undergraduate student researcher.

• Andy Shar and Ethan deliver oral presentations at NURVa Undergraduate Research Conference.

November 2022

• Prof. Joung joins the VCU Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environment as a faculty member.

August 2022

• Prof. Joung delivers a presentation at the US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) meeting (Washington DC).

May 2022

• Prof. Joung delivers an invited virtual talk at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH).

• Edward Pemberton joins the team as an undergraduate student researcher.

April 2022

• Prof. Joung delivers a presentation at the Society for Biomaterials 2022 Annual Meeting (Baltimore, MD).

• Congratulations to Andy Shar, who received a VCU Fellowships for Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry (UROP).

• Congratulations to Ethan Nguyen, who received a VCU Fellowships for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR).  

• Congratulations to Raghib Nihal, who received a Baldacci Student Experiential Learning Endowed Fund.  

• Jordan Young, Andy Shar, and James Pickford deliver poster presentations at VCU Poster Symposium.

- 3D Printing and Modeling of Artificial Cilia to Alleviate Sensorineural Hearing Loss

- 3D Printed Elastomeric Carbon Nanocomposites for Flexible Electronics

- Utilization of Computational Fluid Dynamics in 3D Printed Microfluidic Devices

March 2022

• Ethan Nguyen joins the team as an undergraduate student researcher.

February 2022

• Jordan Young delivers an oral presentation at NURVa Undergraduate Research Conference.

January 2022

• Brandon Daul joins the team as a graduate student researcher.

November 2021

• Prof. Joung delivers an invited talk at the 2021 ASME-IMECE Conference.

September 2021

• Reza Moonesi Rad joins the team as a postdoc associate.

August 2021

• Raghib Nihal and Andy Shar join the team as undergraduate student researchers.

July 2021

• Prof. Joung receives a Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB) Research Grant.

• VCU CHS Grant Highlights.

April 2021

• Congratulations to Jordan Young, who received a Baldacci Student Experiential Learning Endowed Fund.  

March 2021

• Prof. Joung (PI) and collarborators receive Higher Education Equipment Trust Fund. 

February 2021

• Jordan Young joins the team as an undergraduate student researcher.

January 2021

• Congratulations to Caio Davison for passing his Ph.D. qualifying exams!

December 2020

• Phillip Glass joins the team as a research assistant.

October 2020

• Prof. Joung is a Guest Editor for the Micromachines for Special Issue "3D Biomedical Microdevices."

June 2020

• Prof. Joung joins the Editorial Board of Micromachines.

• Lucas Craft participates in VCU Poster Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creativity, "Economical Custom-Made 3D BioPrinter". 

April 2020

• Prof. Joung appears in the News center at Massey Cancer Center.

March 2020

• Prof. Joung serves as a judge for the Metro Richmond STEM Fair .

February 2020

• Prof. Joung presents 3D printed medical devices at VCU Transfer STEM-H Fair.

• Mridula Kalluru/Julian Vaughn/Lucas Craft join the team as undergraduate student researchers.

January 2020

• Prof. Joung commented on "THE HILL" article about IBM tests batteries made from seawater.

• Caio Davison joins the team as a graduate student.

• Nadajah Knight joins the team as the first undergraduate student.

November 2019

• Our invited progress report "3D Printed Neural Regeneration Devices"  has been published in Advanced Functional Materials. 

• Prof. Joung talks at VCU Department of Physics Colloquium, "3D Printed Neural Regeneration Devices." 

• Prof. Joung joins VCU Massey Cancer Center as an associate member. 

October 2019

• Prof. Joung presents a seminar to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at VCU.  

• Prof. Joung talks at Virginia Physics and Astronomy Teacher Workshop, "3D Printing for Bioengineering." 

September 2019

• M. David Williams joins the lab as the first graduate student.

• "Microscale 3D electric devices and methods of making the same"  has been granted U.S.10400346.

August 2019

• Prof. Joung joined the Department of Physics at VCU as an assistance professor.