News
2024
7/10
Prof. Liu received funding from NSF ECCS-CCSS for “EAGER: A Stretchable Ion Barrier for Bioelectronic Encapsulation.” This one-year grant starts in October of 2024.
6/3
Junce Cheng and Qingyang Sun presented our work in a Poster session at the Hilton Head 2024 conference.
1/22
Qingyang Sun presented our work “Engineering 3D Hierarchical Structures with Bio-mimetic Solid Fraction Gradient” in a Poster session at the IEEE MEMS 2024 conference. 
2023
10/30
Kaushal Sumaria presented our work “Chronic Dielectric Performance of Parylene-Modified Polydimethylsiloxane for Insulating Stretchable Electronics” in a Lecture session at the IEEE SENSORS 2023 conference. 
9/5
Prof. Liu received funding from NSF CMMI Advanced Manufacturing for “Manufacturing of Super-Repellent Surfaces with High Mechanical Resilience.” This three-year grant starts in September of 2023.
8/1
Prof. Liu received NIH’s Trailblazer R21 Award. This will be a collaborative project with Dr. Moorman on developing stretchable neural interfaces for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). [Read More]
7/17
Our collaboration with Prof. Jae-Hwang Lee received funding from NSF for “Understanding the Dynamics of Periodic Planar Microstructures Responding to Colliding Micro-Particles.” This three-year grant will start in September of 2023. [Read More]
3/1
Our collaboration with Prof. Mingxu You and Prof. Sallie Schneider received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop “A Sequential Imaging Platform for Multiplexed Profiling in Living Systems.”
2022
6/6
Junce Cheng presented our work “Controllable static breath-figure processes to form ordered 3-D microstructures on polydimethylsiloxane without lithography and molding” at the Hilton Head 2022 conference. 
2/21
Welcome Dev Gulati to Inter2EngrLAB.
3/1
Congratulations to Junce Cheng, whose work has been accepted to Hilton Head Workshop 2022!
2021
1/25
Qingyang Sun presented our work “DEFORMABLE SUPEROLEOPHOBIC SURFACES WITH HIGH MECHANICAL RESILIENCE” remotely at the IEEE MEMS 2021 conference. [Read More]
9/1
Welcome Alex Lazarov to Inter2EngrLAB to work on the neural probe related research project.
2020
11/24
Congratulations to Qingyang Sun, whose work has been accepted as an oral presentation in the highly competitive IEEE MEMS 2021 conference!
3/20
Prof. Liu’s collaborative work on “An implantable multifunctional neural microprobe for simultaneous multi-analyte sensing and chemical delivery” is published today in Lab on a Chip. (DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00021C)
1/19
Kaushal Sumaria presented our work “Massively parallel liquid metal wiring for soft electronics and robotics” in a plenary session at the IEEE MEMS 2020 conference in Vancouver, CA. [Read more]
2019
11/11
Prof. Liu’s collaborative work on harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the optimum long-term maintenance dosing for HIV-1 patients is published today in Advanced Therapeutics. [Full text] (DOI: 10.1002/adtp.201900114)
10/22
Congratulations to Kaushal Sumaria, whose work has been accepted as an oral presentation in the highly competitive IEEE MEMS 2020 conference! Less than 10% of the submission has been selected for oral presentations.
9/1
Welcome Dr. Hongyao Geng to join Inter2EngrLAB as a postdoc and Mr. Junce Cheng as a new Ph.D. student.
8/21
Prof. Liu’s collaborative work with UCLA on electrodewetting is published online today in Nature. [?Full text?] (DOI:10.1038/s41586-019-1491-x)
Media reports: Nature News and Views; UMass News; UCLA News; digitalmicrofluidics.org;
6/30 Congratulations to Gabriel Kornillowicz for starting his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University.
6/1 Welcome Ismael Tahoun to Inter2EngrLAB for independent study in Summer 2019.
2/7
Prof. Liu’s previous collaborative work of multifunctional soft neural probe has been accepted for publication in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. [Read more]
1/30 Welcome Meredith Eagar to Inter2EngrLAB.
1/6 Welcome Jiayang Cheng to Inter2EngrLAB for independent study in Spring 2019.
2018
11/1 Welcome Dr. Yu-Ting “Bill” Chow to Inter2EngrLAB.
7/10 Welcome Qingyang Sun to Inter2EngrLAB.
6/13 – 6/15
Prof. Liu is invited to give the talk of “Measuring Contact Angles on Super-repellent Surfaces with a Consistent Accuracy” in the 11th International Symposium on CONTACT ANGLE WETTABILITY AND ADHESION at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
5/15 Welcome Kaushal Sumaria to Inter2EngrLAB.
4/9 Welcome Gabriel Kornillowicz to Inter2EngrLAB.
2017
7/24 – 7/26
Prof. Liu attends DROPLETS 2017 International Conference and gives a talk entitled “Measuring Large Contact Angles On Superomniphobic Surfaces With A Consistent Accuracy”. [Talk]
6/30
Prof. Liu will join UMass Amherst and lead Inter2EngrLAB@UMass in spring 2018.