Alexandra Bayles
@bayleslab
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Assistant Prof @UDChBE. Architecting and interrogating soft material interfaces. Formerly @ETH_Materials & @UCSBChE
Newark, DE
Joined August 2018
In short, 2024 has been a blast. We’re off to the lab to keep racking up excuses to have celebratory desserts in group meeting.
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Ian is not on X, but @BaylesTaryn is! Hours before the proposal, the legendary #DrMom tricked PI Bayles into getting a manicure by claiming the salon was the best place to grade ChE Design reports on a Saturday. Who needs work/life balance when you can have work/life integration?
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Proposals, type II: Four days after officially receiving NSF CAREER, PI Bayles got engaged! Her fantastic partner, Ian, is also a chemical engineer (shocking). You simply can’t beat two milestone ChemE proposals in one week.
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Proposals: It was a treat to connect with fellow 2024 NSF CAREER CBET-PMP awardees at this summer’s ACS Colloids meeting and learn about all they’re up to with their awards! @RPS_lab, @maggieqigroup, @hari_manikantan
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Proposals: With CAREER support, @UDChBE students will also broaden STEM literacy through PI Bayles’ K12 outreach program, FRACTAL: Forging & Replicating Ambassador Communities to Accelerate Learning. Initial events have been squishy and joyous.
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Proposals: PI Bayles was thrilled to receive the NSF CAREER award. Looking forward to intensifying 3D printing using advective assembly and learning more over the next few years.
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Presentations: PI Bayles connected with industry through invited talks at the Formulation Science and Engineering for the Common Good Workshop in DC and at TA Instruments. Academia-industry dialogues are fantastic for maximizing impact and translation.
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Presentations: Graduate student Juliana Nam and postdoc Patrick McCauley presented at the Mid-Atlantic Soft Matter Workshop at Georgetown University! We’re looking forward to hosting the next iteration of MASM at UD in a few months.
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Presentations: PI Bayles presented at the GRC on Colloidal, Macromolecular, and Polyelectrolyte Solutions in Ventura, CA. It was an exceptionally stimulating meeting with equally exceptional scientists.
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Papers: Tazio Pleij (@ETH_en) published his work with PI Bayles and @JanVermant on combining advective assembly nozzles with support bath 3D printing to build actuating hydrogels with complex topologies. Read it here:
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
A novel additive manufacturing technique is developed and employed to print topologically complex, multimaterial, unsupported 3D structures. This methodology combines rotational 3D printing and...
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Papers: Patrick Danner (@Empa_CH) and Tazio Pleij (@ETH_en) published their work with PI Bayles, @JanVermant, and Dorina Opris (@Empa_CH) on polysiloxane capillary suspension 3D printing inks for dielectric elastomer transducers. Read it here: https://t.co/zbdmR8GX5k
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Papers: Patrick McCauley and PI Bayles’s manuscript on 3D printing nozzle innovations was featured in the inaugural Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering issue of ACS Engineering Au. Read it here: https://t.co/4JhGJPuGUZ
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People: Our growing group had fun bonding over the summer while tie dying, savoring ice cream and lunches, and competing at UD CBE’s Field Day. Enthusiasm is infectious :)
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People: Undergraduate students Clara Middleton and Rita Wilson completed REUs in our group through @UD_CHARM. They learned new lab and professional skills from postdoc mentor Patrick McCauley. Watch out for their grad school apps this fall!
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People: Undergraduate student Tiffany Jung completed a senior research project in the lab and graduated with her BChE! She’s off working at Advanced Food Products.
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People: Graduate students Nina Fratto (co-advised w/@TheppsMIT) and Kaan Murat joined the group and began new projects on lignin-derivable inks and microfluidic interferometry. Congrats to both for recently passing their PhD qualifiers!
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Hello! We took a break from scrolling X to give our undivided attention to real life. 2024 has been a whirlwind–packed with people, papers, presentations, and proposals. The semester’s start is a perfect time to reflect with gratitude and share our favorite group developments.
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I'm always happy to send colorful therapy putty! I'm even happier to send it along with Figure 5 from the exceptional primer by @rhewoldt & Saengow
annualreviews.org
Taking a small step away from Newtonian fluid behavior creates an explosion in the range of possibilities. Non-Newtonian fluid properties can achieve diverse flow objectives, but the complexity...
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Such a creative and engaging outreach initiative! Kudos to @arthijayaraman, Jenn, Kara and @danteshepherd, and especially Bayles Group member Juliana Nam!
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