Rayne Research Group​
Additive Manufacturing and Metamaterials

Recent News

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Sept 2024 Our group presented at the annual BSAC research conference. Victor won a Best Presentation Award! Congratulations! ​

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Feb 2023 Welcome Marco Maurizi, Ph.D..! Marco joined our group as a postdoc scholar. Marco completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from  Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Jan 2023 Welcome Yang Xu, Ph.D.! Yang joined our group as a postdoc scholar. Yang completed his Ph.D. from Prof. Yong Chen's group from University of Southern California. 

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Sept 2022  We are recruiting at UC Berkeley ! 

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July 2022 Check LA Times featuring our search !

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Sept 2021 [Member] Welcome new lab member Victor and David! 

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Aug 2021 [Award] We received a prestigious award from NSF DMREF (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF). Rayne will lead the research with co-PI Professor Mathieu Bauchy,  Profs. Wei Wang and Yizhou Sun from the CS department at UCLA. 

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June 2021 Rayne Zheng has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. 

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May 2021 [member] Congratulations to Ryan Hensleigh for passing his Ph.D. Defense. Ryan will join Naval Research Laboratory in June. 

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April 2021 [member] Welcome new lab member Zhen Wang 

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April 2021 [Award] Congratulations to our group on receiving a prestigious DARPA Director's Fellowship Award!

 

Feb 2021 [Award] Congratulations to our group on receiving the prestigious NSF CAREER Award! 

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Feb 2021 [Member] Welcome Zachary Wong and congratulations on being accepted into the accelerated ME program. 

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Oct 2020 Member] Congratulations to Huachen Cui for passing the Ph.D. defense! 

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May 2020 [Publications] H. Cui, R. Hensleigh and Z. Xu published an article in the journal Science. 

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April 2020 [Publications] R. Hensleigh published a paper on Nature Electronics. 

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Dec 2019 [Award] Our group will team up with HRL Laboratory on Curved Infrared Imagers DARPA Microsystems Technology Office. 

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Dec 2019 Congratulations to Ryan Hensleigh, Huachen Cui and Desheng Yao on passing the Ph.D. Prospectus Exam!

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Nov 2019 [Talk] Rayne gave an invited presentation on Additive Manufacturing at the Topology Optimization Workshop at the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine 

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Nov 2019 [Member] Welcome new group member, Wentao Chen as a new Ph.D. student. 

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Oct 2019 [Talk] Rayne gave an invited presentation at the Rapid Prototyping Workshop in Lincoln Lab, MA.   

 

Sept 2019 [Award] Desheng Yao won the First Place Award at the Graduate Student Poster Competition at the 2019 MS&T Meeting, Portland, Oregon. Congratulations! 

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June 2019 [Award] Rayne received a prestigious award Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award: International Outstanding Young Researcher in Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award. 

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June 2019 [Publication] Huachen published a new paper on Applied Physics Letters. Congratulations!

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June 2019 [Talk] Dr. Zheng gave a keynote presentation at Computational Fabrication Symposium at Carnegie Mellon University

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June 2019 [Members] Welcome new team members, Michael Hemminger and Dominic LoPinto !

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May 2019 [Talk] Dr. Zheng gave a keynote presentation at American Society of Acoustics in Louisville, Kentucky 

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Mar 2019 [Award] Dr. Zheng received a prestigious 3M NTFA Faculty Award. 

 

Mar 2019 [Award] Our group has received a Prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award. Congratulations!

 

Feb 2019 [Award] Our group has received the JMR Paper of the Year Award. Congratulations to Huachen and Ryan !

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Jan 2019 [Publication] Congratulations on Huachen's new paper on Nature Materials! Three-dimensional Printing of Piezoelectric Materials with Designed Anisotropy and Directional Response. Congratulations to Ryan, Desheng and all colleagues!

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Dec 2018 [Award] Our group has received a prestigious Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award. Congrats!

 

Nov 2018 [Award] Our group, with colleagues from MSE, ChemE and ISE,  have received a prestigious grant from Department of Education. The grant will support GAANNS Fellowships for exceptional incoming Ph.D students: Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program. Congratulations! 

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Nov 2018 [Publication] Ryan and colleagues'  article on 3D graphene lattice is selected to be featured on the Cover of Material Horizon. Check the image here. 

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Oct 2018  Chansoo Ha joins our group as a Postdoctoral Researcher from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Welcome Chansoo! 

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Sept 2018 [Conference] Rayne gave a Keynote Talk at the MSE (Material Science and Engineering) Congress in Darmstadt,Germany. 

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Sept 2018 [Conference] Huachen Cui presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Architectured Material Mechanics; Well done, Huachen!

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Sept 2018 [Grant] ICTAS REU Award. Congratulations! 

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Sept 2018 [Conference] Rayne gave an Keynote Talk at ASME SMASIS Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive
Structures and Intelligent Systems, San Antonio, Texas. 

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Aug 2018 Zhenpeng Xu and Daniel Elkins join our group as new Ph.D students. Welcome!

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Aug 2018 [Publication] Ryan and Huachen's work on Additive Manufacturing of 3D Micro-Architected Graphene is published on Materials Horizons.  

VT Front Page News, LLNL Front Page News, Science Daily, 3D Printing Industry News, 

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June 2018 [Conference] Rayne gave an Keynote talk at the 35th International Conference on Photopolymer Science and Technology, Chiba, Japan 

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June 2018 [Publication] Da Chen published a paper on Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing of Metamaterials with Giant, Negative Poissons' Ratios. Congratulations!  

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May 2018  [Grant] Our group receives a grant to study tailorable architected materials from the Office of Naval Research. Congratulations! 

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April 2018  [Conference] Invited Talk at TMS Annual Meeting 

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Nov 2017 [Award] Our group receives the prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Congratulations to all group members!

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Aug 2017 [Award] Huachen received a NSF Graduate Student Travel Award. 

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July 2017 [Conference] Rayne gave an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Nanomechanics, Hongkong, China. 

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July 2017 [Conference] Huachen presented at the Society of Engineering Science, Boston, MA. 

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April 2017 [Award] Our group receives a prestigious ICTAS Young Faculty Award. Congratulations to all group members!

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