Tiny Plastics, Big Impacts @ UPenn Climate Week

Lab member Joey Wu, together with WaterRoots, EarthEcho, and UPenn department of Earth and Environmental Science, is organizing a microplastics event at UPenn's upcoming climate week. Dr. McBride and Derek Ho, along with professor Jon Hawkings, discussed the science of microplastics and our work with people stopping by the event.

Tiny Plastics, Big Impacts

The Science of Staying Dry for UPenn Nanoday

Greg Parisi, along with Felwa Alarwan and Dr. McBride, brought a demonstration on wettability and superhydrophobic materials to a local elementary school for UPenn Nanoday! Greg's demonstration included superhydrophobic paper towels and a discussion on how waterproof materials are important in everyday life.

Nanoday Outreach

Rehan presents at ACS Fall 2024

Rehan's presentation focused on some initial results on how drops of water containing microplastics behave on advanced engineered interfaces, with the finding that nanoscale plastic particles have very different interfacial behavior than microscale plastics.

The McBride Lab launches at UPenn

Dr. McBride officially begins her position as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and opens the doors of her lab in the Singh Center for Nanotechnology to students.

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