Budhlall Polymer Colloids & Soft Matter Group: Latest News

Polymer Encapsulated Quantum Dots Project is Highlighted

Ph.D. student Soujanya Muralidhara working with our collaborators in Biology - Krishnakumar Malu and Assoc. Prof. Peter Gaines, has developed a new technique to encapsulate quantum dots into polymer colloids for live cell imaging that reduces the risk of toxic leakage of the quantum dots without significantly affecting their fluorescence properties in vivo.

Professor Budhlall Wins $505K Grant to Develop Smart Coatings

A team of researchers from UMass Lowell’s Plastics Engineering Department, led by Asst. Prof. Bridgette Budhlall, recently received a three-year $505,373 grant from Raytheon to to design, develop and evaluate polymers as thin-film coating systems for applications in a chemical sensor device.

Researchers Win $25K Grant to Commercialize Technology

Plastics engineering Assoc. Prof. Ramaswamy Nagarajan, along with graduate students Zarif Farhana, Ryan Bouldin and Vishal Bavishi and Asst. Prof. Bridgette Budhlall of Plastics Engineering, are developing non-toxic, bio-based and biodegradable surfactants using “greener” materials and synthetic routes.

$200K NSF Grant for Undergrad Nanomanufacturing Course

Called the Nanoscale Transport Phenomena for Manufacturing Nanodevices, the program is offered under the direction of chemical engineering Asst. Prof. Zhiyong Gu and will involve four other faculty members from three engineering departments — Profs. Al Donatelli (Chemical Engineering), Hongwei Sun (Mechanical Engineering) and Profs. Bridgette Budhlall and Carol Barry (Plastics Engineering).