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Chuanshen Du, Ph.D.<\/td>Postdoctoral Researcher, Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Application of Statistics in Molecular Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Julia Chang, Ph.D.<\/td>Postdoctoral Researcher, Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Liquid Metal Derived Self-Assembled Structures<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ian Tevis, Ph.D.<\/td>Postdoctoral Researcher<\/td>Metastable core-shell particles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zhengjia \"Scarlett\" Wang, Ph.D.<\/td>Postdoctoral Researcher<\/td>Odd-even effect in self-assembled monolayers (developed the \u2018Scarlett quadrant\u2018)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Simge Cinar, Ph.D.<\/a><\/td>Postdoctoral Researcher<\/td>Undercooled core-shell particles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Frankiewicz, Ph.D.<\/td>Postdoctoral Researcher<\/td>Mechano-chemical recycling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Professor John Gitua<\/td>Visiting Professor, Duke University<\/td>5D complexes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stephanie Oyola-Reynoso, Ph.D.<\/td>Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Biomimetic Amphi-phobic Surfaces<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jiahao Chen, Ph.D.<\/td>Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Odd-even Effect in Molecular Electronics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Andrew Martin, Ph.D.<\/td>Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Thermodynamics of metastable liquid metals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Boyce Chang, Ph.D.<\/a><\/td>Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Non-Traditional Polymer Synthesis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paul Gregory, Ph.D.<\/td>Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Biocompatible Solid Lubricants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Souvik Barnejee, Ph.D.<\/td>Doctoral Student<\/td>Thesis: Surface-Driven Material engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joel Cutinho, M.S.<\/td>Graduate Student<\/td>Thesis: Thermo-Oxidative Composition Inversion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zizhi Zhuang, M.S.<\/td>Graduate Student<\/td>Thesis: Metadata Driven re-Interpretation of Tunneling Data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nalova Ikome<\/td>CERA Fellow<\/td>Free-electron polymerization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thabiso Masole<\/td>CERA Fellow<\/td>Engineering surfaces of Ti6Al4 AM powder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patrick Moran<\/td>Undergraduate Student<\/td>Undercooled metals in 3D printing on human tissue<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ashley Reyes<\/td>Undergraduate Student<\/td>Biomedical devices<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8333,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAlumni - Soft Materials Matter Transport Research Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mse.ncsu.edu\/thuo\/alumni\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alumni - 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