Preston Innovation Lab

Recent @ricePILab & @RiceMECH PhD grad @rasheed_rawand '23 was named to the @Forbes 30 Under 30! His company Helix Earth is lowering power bills and saving energy for AC systems. #ForbesUnder30 forbes.com/profile/rawand…

Helix Earth, a clean-tech company started by Rice alumnus Rawand Rasheed ’23, has secured $5.6 million in seed funding. This investment will help accelerate the development of retrofit devices to reduce energy consumption in air-conditioning systems. engineering.rice.edu/news/clean-tec…

Dear friends who write NSF GRFP rec letters, this year rec letters are due BEFORE the applications, so about 10 days earlier than normal on Oct. 11. Please don't let NSF's deadline change on rec letters screw over the applicants in your lives.

In new work from @ricePILab in @ACS_Langmuir, we go beyond the Washburn relationship: inverse design & additive manufacturing produce wicking materials with atypical fluid propagation for low-cost diagnostics, thermal management, and more. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Two covers from @RiceMECH in the same issue of @Advintellsyst! Our work from @ricePILab on sheet-based fluidic diodes and collaborative work on multiscale haptics led by @MarcieOMalley's MAHI lab were both selected for covers in the July issue. engineering.rice.edu/news/rice-labs…

Happy to share our work led by @ranoop93 on fluidic resistors made from soft porous foams for embedded sensing and control in #softrobots and #wearables, out today in @WileyVCH Advanced Functional Materials: doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2…

We show fluidic diodes made from lightweight flexible sheets, including #textiles, in a paper in @Advintellsyst published last week. Beyond simply enforcing one-way flow, they enable #logic, encoding, and rectification. doi.org/10.1002/aisy.2…

Congrats @Zhen_Skyii on winning the @RiceMECH Research Excellence Award! Pictured here giving a special seminar to the department in recognition of the award.

Congrats @irf_zob on your successful MS defense in @RiceMECH - the third from @ricePILab this spring!

Another successful MS defense in @RiceMECH from a @ricePILab member this spring - congratulations, Evan!

Nice job today by @ricePILab's Adam Broshkevitch defending his MS thesis in @RiceMECH today!

The @RiceMECH NHTL and @ricePILab show Teflon AF–coated nanotextured aluminum surfaces for "jumping droplet" thermal rectification in our new paper published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Congrats @rasheed_rawand on the publication of your paper on multiplexed inertial coalescence filters with @ricePILab! Rawand's company, Helix Earth Technologies (currently at @GreentownLabs in #Houston), is hiring for multiple engineering roles. doi.org/10.1080/027868…

I’ve now been featured twice in InnovationMap!

Mechanical engineers in Rice University’s @ricePILab have created containers that can keep volatile organic compounds from accumulating on the surfaces of stored nanomaterials:

Great to see our recent @NanoLetters paper by @Zhen_Skyii and the @ricePILab highlighted by @ASMEdotorg! These ultra clean #nano-textured containers prevent contamination.

The @ricePILab had a great time at @SocEngScience #SES2023! We had five talks and two posters featuring @Fayeyap25, Vi Vo, @quisebell, and @JUMETkinmecrazy.

Projects by @Fayeyap25 and @quisebell of @ricePILab have been covered in back-to-back issues of @cenmag! Check out their talks at @SocEngScience #SES2023 next week, and meet them at the inaugural #SES2023 Future Faculty Symposium on Oct 10 organized by @KejieZhao and @nanshulu.

This amazing innovation from @RiceUniversity kills viruses and cuts down on pollution from single-use gloves. Excellent work, @quisebell, @ProfDanPreston and all who made this a reality, including @NSF, @WelchFoundation, @NASA and the @GEMFellowship! bit.ly/45Q58g0