Dhong lab adds several new members to the team-welcome Maryanne, Qurat-Ul-Ain, and co-adviser Truc! See brief bios under people.

A new R01 from the NIH starts this year on our touch projects, with collaborators from the NFB and UD Psychological & Brain Science

Dhong lab adds several new members to the team-welcome Lisa, Kayla, Nishtha, and Avery! See brief bios under people.

Abi’s paper on human sensitivity to single atom subsitutions in silane monolayers featured in:

Chemistryworld

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/distinguishing-surface-chemistry-by-touch/4013755.article

and Newscientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2276384-your-finger-can-feel-the-change-of-a-single-atom-in-a-material/

Congratulations to Xinqiao Jia and her group for securing a NIH grant to develop microfluidic disease models of the human vocal fold.

https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2021/september/xinqiao-jia-tissue-engineering-vocal-fold-salivary-gland-repair/

Congratulations to Abigail and the team on their paper on the human perception of surface monolayers, which was recently accepted in Soft Matter!

Shalini completed her UG at the University of Delaware. Welcome!

Ghodeejah will join us after finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Capetown and Irene joins us from the BMEG program at UD. Welcome!

The lab’s work on understanding the perception of softness has been highlighted in Gizmodo!

Welcome to our newest members, who will join our young team. See their brief bio in the people tab.