Kōnane Bay, Ph.D.

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APS Meeting abstracts for Denver deadline was extend to October 31! Consider submitting to the "Engineered Biopolymers and Living Materials" focus session organized by Melody Morris and me. We invite abstracts covering research using polymer physics for engineered biopolymers and living materials.

Hot off the press 🔥. We report imperfect Turing patterns of hard spheres diffusiophoretically assembling to chemical signals, enabling us to get imperfections such as packing limits, variation in thickness, and pattern breakups. @cp-matter.bsky.social
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An NSF DMREF award will help Whitney Loo design polymers critical to making next-gen computer chips - College of Engineering - University of Wisconsin-Madison Whitney Loo, the Conway Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part of a four-year project selected by the National Sci...

excited to announce that we've been awarded an NSF DMREF grant to study crosslinkable photoresists for EUV lithography! can't wait to work with the great team of e researchers at the University of Illinois on this project. learn more here: engineering.wisc.edu/blog/an-nsf-...

We're delighted to announce that Ankur Gupta has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Soft Matter Lectureship!

This award honours an early-career researcher for their contributions to the soft matter field.

Learn more about Ankur and his research on our blog 👉 blogs.rsc.org/sm/2025/09/1...

Influence of Environmental Surroundings on the Mechanical Properties of Ultrathin Polymer Membranes We review the impact of temperature, pressure, and liquid/gas environments on the mechanical properties of ultrathin polymer films. Understanding how they influence the mechanical properties will be ....

This spring I challenged myself to write my first perspective article about ultrathin polymer film mechanics. I had a lot of fun writing it. I think there are some interesting questions that are still out there. doi.org/10.1002/pol....

first Loo Lab paper is out now in @pubs.acs.org! here we show how polymer blends can tune Li ion solvation site and enhance ion transport

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Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium

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Congrats Sara!

Thankful to all the students who collected the preliminary data for the proposal.

I look forward to sharing our lab's future results on this project. Congrats to my colleague Ankur Gupta for also receiving this award.

ChBE faculty earn Air Force Young Investigator Award Assistant Professors Kōnane Bay and Ankur Gupta from CU Boulder’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering have been honored with the 2025 Air Force

Honored to have received the AFOSR Young Investigator Award. This is my lab's first grant in our engineered living materials research area. It will support our work on leveraging the natural taxis of microbes to pattern the mechanical props of biohybrid polymers. www.colorado.edu/chbe/chbe-fa...

In these times, my group has leaned into doing K-12 STEM outreach.

Tomorrow we will be at the STEAMfest making alginate candy sushi! www.colorado.edu/sciencedisco...

Next week, I will be running a different set of demos at Squishy Science Sunday in Anaheim, CA!
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Congrats Ryan!

Applications are now open for the NSF-supported Future Faculty Workshop in Soft Matter, to be hosted at UC Irvine @ucirvine.bsky.social on July 15-17! Please help us spread the word—mentee applications are accepted until March 31st: shorturl.at/grUek

This is a fantastic program - highly encourage all future faculty in soft matter to apply! I learned so much when I attended in 2022, and can't wait to join as a mentor this year!

Coolest microfluidic study to understand macrophage and neutrophil crosstalk and disfunction after sepsis. Way to go #cmbe2025 Rising Star Dr. Lauren Hind!

Many thanks to my colleagues, mentors, and friends who have gave me feedback during the proposal writing stage that made this award possible.

Kōnane Bay receives CAREER award for polymer fabrication research Polymer thin films can extend the lifespan of everyday products, such as food packaging for preserving freshness and protective coatings for electronics.

I am excited to announce that my lab, has received the NSF CAREER award to continue our work in ultrathin polymer film mechanics. www.colorado.edu/chbe/2024/12...

Three of my students will be at #MRS2024 this week presenting our work in Engineered Living Materials. Check out on Olivia Pear and Alyssa Libonati's posters on our work with biomineralized mycelium and Samson Adelani's first ever conference talk on microbial granular composites.

I’ve added quite a few new polymer scientists to this starter pack over the last couple days! Check them out! #chemsky #polymersky

Also, always appreciate the help in finding people! Comment/DM to be added and continue to share :)

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