McAlpine Research Group

News

2024

Our work on 3D Printed Skin-Interfaced UV-Visible Hybrid Photodetectors was in the top 10% of Advanced Science papers downloaded within the first year of publication.

Congratulations to Spencer Bertram, who graduated in May. Spencer completed the University Honors Program, which culminated with his thesis: “An Orientation Field-Based Toolpath Generation Algorithm for Nonplanar, Fiber-Oriented 3D Bioprinted Cardiac Constructs.” Spencer joined the McAlpine Research Group in 2021 as an undergraduate researcher, and we're excited to announce that he will continue in the group as a Researcher 2.

Congratulations to Saravanan Sujit Kaarthik, who successfully defended his master's thesis entitled, "3D Printing of Large-Scale Integrated Microfluidic Devices." We wish him the best in his new position as Visiting Technology Commercialization Fellow at University of Illinois Chicago, Office of Technology Management.

2023

Group members celebrated the end of the year with dinner and bowling at Elsie's.

Congratulations to Guebum Han, who has accepted a position as Structural Analyst (Mechanical Engineer) at Intel.

We have established the 3D Electronics Center based around our invention of 3D printing functional materials & devices. This is a first-of-its-kind and first-in-the-nation institute based around the 3D printing of electronic and other functional materials.

Group members celebrated summer and the successes of the first half of the year with a hike to see the Willow Creek Waterfall at Willow River State Park in nearby Hudson, WI.

Congratulations to our former Ph.D. student Prof. Yong Lin Kong, who has been selected by SME as a 2023 Delcie Durham Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, for his exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry.

Congratulations to Meghan Griffin, who has been awarded a fellowship by the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

Prof. McAlpine gave a Keynote Presentation at the 2023 TMS Annual Meeting.

The PLOS ONE Editorial Board has presented Prof. McAlpine with a Long Service Award, recognizing his 5+ years of dedicated service and commitment.

Prof. McAlpine delivered a Distinguished Seminar to the University of Toronto Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering.

2022

Group members celebrated the end of the year with lunch at The Market at Malcolm Yards.

Congratulations to our former Ph.D. student Prof. Yong Lin Kong, who has been awarded the 2023 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator award ($750,000, three years). The award will fund his work on "Gastric Resident Electronics for Marine Mammals Health."

Congratulations to Ruitao Su, who received the Pui Best Dissertation Award.

Our 3D printed wearable light-sensing device has been featured in the news:

UMN News Feature | 3Dnatives | AZoOptics | Interesting Engineering | Tech Times

Congratulations to Meghan Griffin, who was awarded a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship.

Congratulations to Xia Ouyang, who accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Electronic Engineering at Sino-German College of Intelligent Manufacturing of Shenzhen Technology University.

Our 3D printed flexible OLEDs have been featured in the news:

Congratulations to Daehoon Han, who accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Chonnam National University.

Congratulations to our former postdoc, Professor Blake Johnson, on receiving the NSF Career Award.

2021

Prof. McAlpine is a co-recipient of the 2021-2022 Excellence in Postdoctoral Advising Award.

Fresh prints: the road to 3D printed organs.

Congratulations to Ruitao Su, who received the Mechanical Engineering Best Dissertation Award.

Congratulations to Ruitao Su, who has accepted a postdoc position at MIT.

Congratulations to Guebum Han, who received an IEM Poster Award.

Congratulations to Shichao Cui, who has accepted a position as Product Design Engineer at Apple.

Congratulations to Song Ih Ahn, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pusan National University.

Prof. McAlpine served as Chair of the Community Building Workgroup, leading the department through a series of virtual events aimed at fostering our community during the pandemic:

Prof. McAlpine is Co-Founder and CSO of Flui3D Inc., a new company which intends to disrupt the design and manufacturing of microfluidic devices.

Prof. McAlpine delivers a Distinguished Seminar to the Washington State University School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

Prof. McAlpine is on the Program Committee for a session on Integrated Sensors for Biological and Neural Sensing at the 2021 SPIE Conference.

Prof. McAlpine joins the Scientific Advisory Board of GRIP Molecular Technologies, Inc.

Congratulations to Ruitao, who received an MRS Best Presentation Award.

2020

Prof. McAlpine participates in the Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Webinar, hosted by Zhigang Suo and Sheng Xu:

Congratulations to Matt Lawler, who was received the 2020 ARCS MN Scholar Award.

Congratulations to Ruitao Su, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled, "3D Printing Multifunctional Optoelectronic and Microfluidic Devices."

Our 3D printed multifunctional microfluidics have been featured in the news:

Congratulations to Xiaoxiao Fan, who successfully defended her master's thesis entitled, "3D Bioprinted Skin Substitutes with Gene-edited Skin Cells." Good luck with your new position as Engineer at LIKE Foods Future Technologies Ltd.

Congratulations to Fanben Meng, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Congratulations to our former Ph.D. student Prof. Yong Lin Kong, who has received the NIH Trailblazer Award.

Congratulations to Zhijie Zhu, who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled, "3D Printed Functional Materials and Devices and Applications in AI-powered 3D Printing on Moving Freeform Surfaces." Good luck with your position at 3M.

Prof. McAlpine is Co-PI on a National Science Foundation Growing Convergence Research collaborative grant.

Our 3D printed aortic root models with integrated sensors have been featured in the news:

Prof. McAlpine is a member of the Senior Personnel (Co-I) on a $26m National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Advanced Technologies for Preservation of Biological Systems (NSF ERC: ATP-Bio), led by John Bischof. Watch the video here:

Congratulations to Ghazaleh, who received the MRS Gold Student Award.

Congratulations to Zach Fuenning, who successfully defended his master's thesis entitled, "A Novel Method for Designing and Controlling Mechanical Anisotropy in Direct Write 3D Printed Models." Good luck with your new position as Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Abbott Labs.

Our 3D printed deformable sensors have been featured in the news:

Our collaboration with the Ogle group on 3D bioprinted beating hearts has been featured in the news:

Congratulations to Kaiyan Qiu, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University.

Congratulations to Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani, who successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled, "3D Printing of Soft Electromechanical Transducers and Their Application in the Development of Patient-Specific Organ Models." Good luck with your position at Seagate.

2019

Prof. McAlpine receives a Society of Cosmetic Chemists Chapter Speaker Award for a presentation before the Membership of the California Chapter.

Congratulations to Zhijie, who received the MRS Gold Student Award.

Our patent on the "Method of producing a 3D subject specific biomimetic nerve guide conduit" is issued.

Prof. McAlpine featured in Inventing Tomorrow: "Endowed chairs honor faculty expertise and alumni interests."

Prof. McAlpine quoted in an article in Science on a rapid, large scale new 3D printing method.

Prof. McAlpine joins the Editorial Board of IOP SciNotes.

Prof. McAlpine spoke at the TEDxMinneapolis event, "Shift: The Stories We Live."

Prof. McAlpine has been promoted to Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota and named the Kuhrmeyer Family Chair, made possible through an endowment from Carl and Janet Kuhrmeyer. This generous gift celebrates Carl's education in Mechanical Engineering and the career it enabled.

Prof. McAlpine is a speaker and session chair / panel moderator at the Mi-Bio Summit on Flexible and Stretchable Bioelectronics at Purdue University.

Congratulations to Shuang-Zhuang Guo, who has accepted a position as Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University.

Congratulations to Daeha Joung, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Congratulations to Zhijie Zhu, who received a 2019-20 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Prof. McAlpine is featured on the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Alumni Spotlight.

Prof. McAlpine enjoyed delivering an outreach lecture to the students at Trinity School, who asked outstanding questions.

Prof. McAlpine delivers an invited talk at the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics Gordon Research Conference.

The Scientist: How 3-D printing could help shape surgery.

Our 3D printed organ models have also been named as one of the "Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2018."

Our 3D printed electronics are featured in a guest article written for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, "3D printing and the path to next generation optoelectronics."

Congratulations to our Breck School summer researchers Alex Anderson and Nathan Tank, who received a number of awards based on their work with us. We wish them the best as they transition to college.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Symposium.

PC Magazine highlights our work as part of "5 Amazing Projects That Will Change the Future of Healthcare."

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the CML Symposium celebrating the pioneering contributions of Charles M. Lieber and reconnects with colleagues.

Our 3D bioprinted tumor models have been featured in the news:

Prof. McAlpine is a Keynote Speaker at the SelectBio BioEngineering Summit.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the State Capitol to several Minnesota State Representatives.

Prof. McAlpine delivered a Keynote at the Florida Minne-College.

Prof. McAlpine organizes a session on 3D Printing of Functional Materials and Devices at the 2019 SPIE Conference.

Prof. McAlpine joins the Advisory Board of Matter, the new journal by Cell Press.

The McAlpine Research Group, which is a diverse group of students and researchers from all over the world, is profiled in Diversity in Action Magazine.

Our former Ph.D. student Yong Lin Kong, now a faculty member at the University of Utah, has been named a 2019 SPIE Rising Researcher.

The McAlpine Research Group is featured in an article on medical 3D printing at Engineering.com.

Prof. McAlpine is quoted in a C&EN News article on 3D printed spinal implants.

Prof. McAlpine participates in a panel on Speaking Science.

2018

Our 3D printed bionic eye is selected by National Geographic as one of "12 innovations that will revolutionize the future of medicine."

Our work on 3D printing neuronal stem cells on scaffolds for spinal cord repair is a Top 10 Cell Science News Story of 2018.

Prof. McAlpine is selected as the 2018 Henry Maso Award Keynote Lecturer.

Prof. McAlpine is profiled in Wired magazine. Also in MD+DI.

Congratulations to Ruitao Su, who received the MRS Silver Student Award.

Prof. McAlpine speaks on 'Incorporating Technology' at CUNY's Advanced Science Research Center.

Prof. McAlpine participates in the Curiosity Drives Progress Lecture Series on Enabling Technologies:

Cover story of Minnesota Business Magazine:

Professor McAlpine appears in the University of Minnesota's Driven to Discover campaign:

Congratulations to Daeha Joung, whose poster took 2nd place in the postdoc category at the 2018 Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM) Conference and Retreat.

Our work involving 3D printing photodiode arrays ('bionic eyes') has been featured in the news:

Prof. McAlpine joins the Editorial Board of Science Advances as an Associate Editor.

Prof. McAlpine participates in the Curiosity Drives Progress Lecture Series: Enabling Technologies.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the TTI/Vanguard Less is More conference.

The first 3D-printed bionic ear is in Guinness World Records 2018.

How electronic tattoos will change the world - and ourselves.

Our work involving 3D printing scaffolds and neuronal stem cells for spinal cord injuries has been featured in the news:

Prof. McAlpine is a keynote speaker at Minnesota's largest advanced design and manufacturing event. Read more about the event here.

Congratulations to Nathan Carter, who received an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

Congratulations to Ghazaleh Haghiashtiani, who received a 2018-19 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.

Prof. McAlpine is a Guest Editor for the PLOS ONE Call for Papers on "Open Biomaterials Research."

Prof. McAlpine mentioned in Physics World article on 3D bioprinting.

Congratulations to Guru Venkatesan, who has received an IEM Student Travel Award for the ASME NEMB Conference.

Congratulations to Fanben Meng, whose poster took 2nd place at the 2018 Pediatric Research, Education and Scholarship Symposium (PRESS).

Prof. McAlpine delivers the keynote lecture at the 33rd Annual Engineering & Urology Meeting of the American Urological Association in San Francisco, CA.

Prof. McAlpine appears in a cover story of the University of Minnesota Foundation's Legacy Magazine:

Our work involving 3D printing electronics directly on moving hands has been featured in the news:

Prof. McAlpine delivers an online course lecture to MIT Media Lab students for Prof. Canan Dagdeviren's course Conformable Decoders.

Getting inked: 3D printed organs and smart tattoos to transform future of biomedicine and electronics.

Prof. McAlpine receives the 2018 George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research.

Prof. McAlpine is a Main Conference Speaker at Additive International. He also delivered an invited seminar at the University of Nottingham.

Our fully 3D printed electrically-driven soft actuators is featured in a story by the Army Research Labs, "Invertebrates inspire first fully 3-D printed active materials for robots."

Also featured in the news:

Prof. McAlpine is interviewed by the Lynda Steele Show on Global News Radio.

Christa Slaught interviews Michael McAlpine on 3-D printed skin electronics for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.

Our 3D printed organ model review paper is highlighted by Annual Reviews News.

Prof. McAlpine joins as the Editor for Advanced Fabrication of Flexible and Printed Electronics.

Prof. McAlpine participates in a Minnesota Academy of Science Salon talk & tour.

Congratulations to our Breck School summer researchers Alexander Anderson and Siyuan Ma, who received one of the Region’s top awards and were selected to represent Minnesota at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair based on their research efforts with our group!

The McAlpine Research Group participates in the Justice Page Middle School STEM Outreach Event:

Congratulations to Dr. Kaiyan Qiu, whose ACS abstract on "3D Printed Organ Models with Physical Properties of Tissue and Integrated Sensors" was selected for an ACS Sci-Mix poster session, which "consists of abstracts selected by division program chairs and represents the most exceptional abstracts submitted to participating divisions."

Prof. McAlpine joins the Academic Editorial Board of PLOS ONE.

UMN President Kaler visits our lab:

Our patent on "3D printed active electronic materials and devices" is issued.

2017

Our 3D printed patient-specific organ models have been featured in the news:

Our collaboration with Dr. Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari (Pediatrics) is supported by an R21.

Prof. McAlpine is a Featured Speaker at the 17th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration. Check out the Twitter feed.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the mechanical engineering graduation event:

Prof. McAlpine's talk at the 2nd Bioengineering & Translational Medicine Conference is highlighted in AIChE ChEnected.

Prof. McAlpine delivers a seminar to the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington:

Prof. McAlpine is part of an awarded EPSRC and team led by Dr. Frankie Rawson at the University of Nottingham to develop new bioelectronic devices.

Congratulations to Daeha Joung, who is the winner of the Biomedicines 2017 Travel Award.

Prof. McAlpine is a Headliners speaker, hosted by Dean Mary Nichols:

Congratulations to our first graduate student Prof. Thanh Nguyen, who has received the NIH R21 Trailblazer Award.

Prof. McAlpine, Dr. Ann Parr, and Dr. James Dutton receive a Spinal Cord Injury Research Grant.

Prof. McAlpine becomes a member of the Masonic Cancer Center.

Prof. McAlpine appears in a UMN Mechanical Engineering departmental postcard:

Congratulations to our former postdoc Prof. Blake Johnson, whose research appears on the covers of Advanced Optical Materials and Lab on a Chip.

Congratulations to Yong Lin Kong, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah.

Our 3D printed stretchable tactile sensors have been featured in the news:

Also highlighted at the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

Prof. McAlpine organized a session at SPIE on 3D Printing of Functional Materials and Devices.

Prof. McAlpine becomes a graduate faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Congratulations to Fanben Meng, who is a 2017 PSOC Cancer Bioengineering Fellow.

Prof. McAlpine delivers a lecture at ETH Zurich as part of their MaP Distinguished Lecture Series on Additive Manufacturing.

Prof. McAlpine speaks to the Rotary Club of Edina.

Congratulations to Ghazaleh and Zhijie, who both received Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowships for the 2017-2018 Academic Year.

Prof. McAlpine receives a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Featured by the NIH NIBIB.

Also featured by the National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. McAlpine and collaborator Brenda Ogle (BME) receive a Regenerative Medicine Minnesota Grant.

Also featured in the Medical Bulletin.

Prof. McAlpine and collaborator Brenda Ogle (BME) receive an R01.

Congratulations to Ryan Han, who successfully defended his master's thesis entitled, "3D Printed Biocatalytic Silica Hydrogel Flow-Through Reactor for Atrazine Degradation." Good luck with your position at Pentair.

2016

Prof. McAlpine is part of the new DoD Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Manufacturing Innovation Hub.

The 3D Printing Functional Materials & Devices Lab was made possible by a generous gift from distinguished alumnus Carl A. Kuhrmeyer, who earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1949, and his wife Janet.

Former graduate student Yong Lin Kong is honored as one of 10 outstanding innovators under 35 by EmTech Asia for his work in our group on 3D printed electronics.

Our patent on the "Method of manufacturing flexible piezoelectric structures" is issued.

Our 3D printed nervous-system-on-a-chip is mentioned in an article in C+EN news.

Our patent on "Multi-functional hybrid devices/structures using 3D printing" is issued.

Prof. McAlpine discusses the future of 3D printing, in articles in ASME, Plastics Today, Qmed, Inventing Tomorrow, and a 3DMedNet podcast.

Prof. McAlpine delivers a Keynote Lecture (along with Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics) at Minimally Invasive Surgery Week, hosted by the Society for Laparoendoscopic Surgeons.

Prof. McAlpine, Dr. Ann Parr and Dr. James Dutton win the Conquer Paralysis Now collaboration challenge grant.

Also read a news article about this achievement.

The McAlpine Group contributes an article to Lab on a Chip's themed issue on 3D Printing, edited by Jennifer Lewis and Howard Stone.

Prof. McAlpine is a Moore Inventor Fellows Finalist.

Congratulations to Fanben Meng, who won 2nd place in the post-doc poster competition at the Institute for Engineering in Medicine's annual retreat.

Prof. McAlpine joins the Scientific Advisory Board of Small Methods.

Prof. McAlpine enjoyed organizing this year's Emerging Technology Forum on "3D Printed Bionic & Medical Devices" at the Design of Medical Devices Conference, featuring keynote presentations, a keynote panel, and a luncheon keynote.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the UMN Mechanical Engineering Alumni Network Spring Event meet & greet.

Prof. McAlpine is one of 3 CSE faculty selected to speak to the UMN Board of Regents.

Congratulations to Elizabeth Smith, who received a UMN Foundation Medical Student Research grant, and a Medical Student Research Program in Regenerative Medicine grant.

Prof. McAlpine in Boston Globe story on 3D printing functional materials.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the 15th Japanese-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium and becomes an NAS Kavli Frontiers Fellow.

Prof. McAlpine joins the International Advisory Board of Advanced Materials Technologies.

Congratulations to Huai-An Chin, who successfully defended his thesis entitled, "Energy Conversion Via Ferroic Materials." Good luck with your position at Intel.

Congratulations to Yong Lin Kong, who successfully defended his thesis entitled, "The Fabrication of Devices with Functional Nanomaterials." Good luck with your postdoc position with Professor Robert Langer at MIT.

Prof. McAlpine becomes a graduate faculty member of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

2015

Our 3D printed nerve regeneration work is a 2015 NIH Research Matters Highlight.

Professor McAlpine receives the 2015 Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award.

Professor McAlpine delivers a Keynote Address at the 5th annual meeting of the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair, in a session sponsored by the University of Illinois.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology 2016 Symposium.

Our patent on the "Use and making of biosensors utilizing antimicrobial peptides for highly sensitive biological monitoring" is issued.

Professor McAlpine's seminar at Iowa State was featured in the IA State Daily.

Our 3D printed nerve regeneration pathways have been featured in the news:

Prof. McAlpine delivers a Keynote Presentation at the NIP31 Digital Fabrication and Digital Printing conference.

Congratulations to Huai-An, who received the Wu Prize for Excellence, on the basis of his excellence in courses, research, and teaching during his time at Princeton.

Our 3D printed programmable release capsules have been featured in the news:

Nanowerk Spotlight | 3D Print.com | Inside 3D Printing | NIH Newsroom

Our bionic ear has been featured in an article in Nature on 3D printed organs, and in the C&EN News History of Bioprinting.

Congratulations to Thanh Nguyen, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut.

Congratulations to Yong Lin Kong, who received an MRS Silver Student Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Blake Johnson, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech.

Prof. McAlpine receives the 2015 SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Yue Cui, who has accepted a position as Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

Blake Johnson comes in 2nd place at Princeton's 2015 Innovation Forum.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories.

Prof. McAlpine delivers the keynote presentation at MIN-Corps on "3D Printing and Bionics."

2014

Our 3D printed quantum dot LEDs have been featured in the news:

Thanks to the National Institutes of Health, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine a Director's New Innovator Award.

National Geographic highlights our work in the article, "Just Press Print."

Good luck to Maneesh Gupta for his new position as Research Scientist at Air Force Research Laboratories.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at Maker Faire Rome and is featured in Wired.

We're moving: Prof. McAlpine will be joining the University of Minnesota as the Benjamin Mayhugh Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Prof. McAlpine enjoyed attending this year's Science Foo Camp.

Prof. McAlpine appears on Business Insider's Game Changers - Bionics.

Prof. McAlpine receives the 2014 Nanonica Prize.

Prof. McAlpine joins the Editorial Board of Extreme Mechanics Letters.

Prof. McAlpine is listed as a "Key Player" in the field of Microscale 3-D Printing on the 10 Breakthrough Technologies list in MIT's Technology Review May/June issue.

Prof. McAlpine delivers a TEDxYouth talk.

Congratulations to Manu Mannoor, who successfully defended his thesis entitled, "Bionic Nanosystems." Good luck with your Assistant Professor position at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Prof. McAlpine speaks at the Economist Innovation Forum about Innovation Inspiration: What's Next?

Our work appears in the PSFK Future of Wearable Tech report.

Prof. McAlpine discusses the New Frontier of Implantable Technology on NPR with Prof. John Rogers.

Prof. McAlpine meets Congressman Frelinghuysen and introduces him to research activities in the McAlpine Group.

2013

Congratulations to Kellye Cung, who successfully defended her thesis entitled, "Microscale BioMEMS & Nanoscale Biomimesis." Good luck with your postdoc position at BASF.

Congratulations to Kellye Cung, who was selected to participate in the NYAS Journey through Science Day.

Our "tooth 'tattoo' sensors" were named as one of the CNN 10: Inventions.

Congratulations to Thanh Nguyen, who successfully defended his thesis entitled, "Biointerfaced Nanopiezoelectrics." Good luck with your postdoc position at MIT with Professor Robert Langer.

Congratulations to Blake Johnson, who received the 2013 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award at Drexel.

Our bionic ear was featured on the cover of Chemistry World - "Press P to Print."

Also highlighted by them as an example of Cutting Edge Chemistry in 2013.

Prof. McAlpine enjoyed attending this year's Science Foo Camp.

"Self-powered Nanogenerators using Piezoelectric PMN-PT Nanocomposites," by Shiyou Xu, Yao-wen Yeh, Gerald Poirier, Michael C. McAlpine, Richard A. Register, and Nan Yao, wins 1st Place Award for the Best Poster Competition, at the International Congress on Materials and Renewable Energy (MRE 2013).

Prof. McAlpine participated in a Science Live chat about "Our Cyborg Future" with Prof. John Rogers and Robert Service.

Prof. McAlpine appears on Fox Business with Stuart Varney.

Our 3D printed bionic ears have been featured in the news:

Congratulations to Maneesh Gupta, who received an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

Thanks to the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, the Graduate School, and the members of the McAlpine Research Group, which have awarded Prof. McAlpine with the Graduate Mentoring Award in Engineering.

Congratulations to Manu Mannoor, who received the Emerging Alumni Scholars Award, based on "the excellence of his dissertation project."

Prof. McAlpine enjoyed organizing and co-chairing a session for this year's NAE CAFOE meeting.

We enjoyed demonstrating the 3D printing of a bionic ear at the "Materials Science in the Nano World 2013" outreach event, hosted by the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM).

2012

Congratulations to Manu Mannoor, who received the MRS Gold Student Award.

Congratulations to Manu Mannoor, who received the Crocco Award for Teaching Excellence.

Prof. McAlpine appears on the cover of Red Bulletin Magazine as one of the "20 Mightiest Minds on Earth."

The New York Times featured our image of biointerfaced neurons with PZT nanoribbons to showcase "The Art of Science." This work was also featured as a SPIE Newsroom article.

Thanks to DARPA, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine a Young Faculty Award.

Congratulations to Thanh Nguyen, who won the Sir Gordon Y.S. Wu '58 Prize for Excellence, for "performance at the highest level as a scholar and researcher."

Our tooth tattoo sensors were featured on the cover of New York Times Magazine as one of "32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow."

Our graphene tooth tattoo sensors have been featured in the news:

Our microfluidic phage display technology has received some attention:

Lab on a Chip top 10 most accessed article | The Scientist

2011

Congratulations to Yong Lin Kong, who won a Guggenheim Second Year Fellowship and a Sayre Award for Academic Excellence.

Prof. McAlpine appears in an Audi promotional video.

Prof. McAlpine was selected to participate at the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

Prof. McAlpine gave a Keynote Presentation at the Freescale Technology Forum.

Our stretchable piezoelectric nanoribbons have been featured in the news:

Nature | Nanowerk Spotlight | Popular Science

2010

Time Magazine has included our work in its list of Top 50 Inventions of the Year.

We enjoyed participating in the 2nd annual Celebrate Princeton Invention reception.

Our antimicrobial peptide-based pathogen sensors have been featured in the news:

National Geographic | News @ Princeton | Gizmag | Materials Today | ON Nature

Thanks to Technology Review Magazine, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine a TR35 Young Innovator Award.

Thanks to the School of Engineering and Applied Science, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine the E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr./Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award.

Thanks to DuPont, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine a 2010 Young Investigator Award.

Our flexible piezoelectric nanoribbons have been featured in the news:

Our patterned molecular recognition work has been recognized by the ACS as being an example of Noteworthy Chemistry.

2009

Thanks to the American Asthma Foundation, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine an Early Excellence Award.

Congratulations to Kellye Cung, who won the Donald W. Collier '44 Fellowship in Chemical Engineering in recognition of "the excellence of her academic work to date and her reputation as a promising scholar in her field."

We enjoyed demonstrating a simple carbon sequestration experiment at this year's Science & Engineering Expo.

2008

Thanks to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine a Young Investigator Grant.

Thanks to the Intelligence Community, which has awarded Prof. McAlpine a Young Investigator Award.

Prof. McAlpine receives an Outstanding Speaker Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Buenaventura.

Our peptide-nanowire sensors have been highlighted in Nature Chemistry.

2003-2007

Our sensitive and flexible nanowire sensors have been highlighted as follows:

Nature Nanotechnology | Nanowerk Spotlight

Our high performance nanowire chips integrated on flexible plastic have been featured in the news:

Science | Slashdot | Photonics Spectra