Equipment Grant From DoD
April 4, 2006, The Materials and Textiles Department has been awarded a grant of about $100,000 for equipment to develop robotic fabrication methods for biomedical textiles. This grant is from the Department of Defense under the DURIP program. The project will draw on collaboration with Mechanical Engineering, with the US Army Natick Soldier Center and with Ventana Research of Tucson Arizona. This will complement our research focus in this area which already includes an ongoing NIH-funded collaboration with the Tissue Engineering Research Center at Tufts University and projects on stents and the Robospider funded by the National Textile Center. In addition the NTC will fund two new projects on 3D textiles as part of the coming funding cycle. With this accumulated support we are in a position to work on the wholly new approaches to textiles that are needed to support the growth of new businesses in our area.

Upcoming Seminars, Sping 2006
Thursdays at 12.30pm
April 6th : Keith Greenawalt, Genzyme
April 27th: Kim Blair, MIT
May 4th: Ralph Salvatore, UMass Boston

Discovery Day
March 28, 2006, Engineering will be holding a Discovery day on April 7th. Materials and Textiles will put on some demonstrations of advanced materials. Please come.

New NTC projects
March 28, 2006, As of May 1st, the Department will start new research projects funded by the National Textile Center.
They are:
Bhowmick, Transport of gases and liquids through 3-D nanofabricated textiles
Ugbolue, The Formation and Performance of Auxetic Textiles
Calvert, Blue-Cured Adhesives for 3-D Medical Textiles
Patra/Calvert, Printed wearable Antennae

Demonstration for Schools of Scanning Electron Microscopy
March 28, 2006, The Department is running a series of demonstrations for high school science classes on the operation of the SEM. This is a key tool in modern semiconductor manufacturing and nanotechnology, producing clear images of things down to 10 nanometers in size, about 30 atoms across.

New grant from ICI Strategic Research Fund
March 28, 2006, Professors Calvert and Kim will work with ICI on developing new methods of inkjet printing for applications in soft electronics. The particular target is multimaterial printing of chemical reagents to build 3D structures.

Study abroad opportunity
Dec. 15, 2005, Are you an undergraduate student interetsing in Study in Germany? Check with Paul Calvert, Chair of the Department.