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The lab name is now changed to Prasad Lab for Materials Research to reflect the range of materials and mechanics problem our lab is involved with beyond biomaterials and biomechanics (Sept 2021)

Congratulations to PhD Student Mukesh Roy for successfully defending his thesis (August 2021)

Our work on evaluating 3D printed materials for NASA in the news! 

Dr. Prasad receives FY2022 RSCA Challenge Fund for "MXene Based 2D Materials: Bioinspired Design for Ultrathin Tough Composites" (March 2021)

Dr. Prasad receives summer fellowship grant (once again!) with the Air Force Research Lab (March 2021).

Congratulation to Masters Student Trupti Suresh for her paper "Nanomechanical Characterization of Additive Manufactured Gr-Cop - 42 Alloy  Developed by Directed Energy Deposition Method, ASME IMECE Proceeding paper, Feb 2021 

Congratulation MS Student Ruhit Sinha for his paper "Enhancing Mechanical Properties of Electrospun Cellulose Acetate Fibers upon Potassium Chloride Exposure Materialia, Vol 14, Dec 2020 

MS Student Ruhit Sinha successfully defended his thesis

Dr Prasad was live at the Discovery Center Remote learning Platform to talk about Materials Science education and NASA 3D Printing alloys (April 2020)

PhD student Mukesh Roy won bronze award in "13th Annual IDEA Competition 2020" Organized by BEDC, Brookings (Feb 2020). news link

Dr. Prasad's proposal selected under "FY 2020 AFRL SFFP”  (Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship). Project titled "Framework for the Design of Functionally-Graded Bioinspired Porous Composites"

PCB printer to enhance student experience, faculty research (Jan 2020)