October 13, 2023

NSF Director Panchanathan visited UMN. ATP-Bio (Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems) hosted a lab tour for Director Panchanathan and demonstrated our current approach to cryopreservation. Link for more.

August 30, 2023

Received 3 ATP-Bio grants on new core ATP-Bio Projects. Congratulations!

January 7, 2023

Our work entitled  “Pushing the Limit of Beetle-Inspired Condensation on Biphilic Quasi-Liquid Surfaces” was published in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations!

Dylan Boylan, Deepak Monga, Li Shan, Zongqi Guo*, Xianming Dai*, "Pushing the Limit of Beetle‐Inspired Condensation on Biphilic Quasi‐Liquid Surfaces", Advanced Functional Materials, 33, 2211113 (2023).

December 20, 2022

Reuters reported our cryomesh method for coral larvae cryopreservation of Australia's Great Barrier Reef!  

Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial

"Scientists working on Australia's Great Barrier Reef have successfully trialled a new method for freezing and storing coral larvae they say could eventually help rewild reefs threatened by climate change."

November 22, 2022

Our research was featured on the front cover of UMN Inventing Tomorrow (Fall 2022).

Read more: Inventing Tomorrow.

August 29, 2022

Our work entitled “Hydrophilic Reentrant SLIPS Enabled Flow Separation for Rapid Water Harvesting” was published in PNAS. Congratulations!

Zongqi Guo, Dylan Boylan, Li Shan, Xianming Dai, "Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, e2209662119 (2022).

November 3, 2021

Successfully passed my Final Oral Exam!

Dissertation title: Coarsening Droplet: Meniscus-mediated Spontaneous Droplet Climbing and Its Applications