News
Dr. Palardy and Co-PIs receive the NASA EPSCoR Basic Research award for the state of Louisiana to research ultrasonic welding for space structures (LSU News article)!
Dr. Palardy's group receives the LaSPACE NASA EPSCoR RAP award (2024-2025) for collaborative work with the NASA Glenn Research Center related to the Thermoplastic Development for Exploration Applications (TDEA) project.
Congratulations to Wencai Li for another paper, accepted in Composite Structures!
Congratulations to Wencai Li for her paper accepted in ACS Applied Polymer Materials!
Welcome to our newest REU Smart Polymers student, Jonathan Sardin from University of Maryland Baltimore Country!
Luis Velazquez wins 3rd place for Best Presentation at the 19th LSU Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Graduate Student Conference (MIE-GSC). Congratulations!
Dr. Palardy receives a LaSPACE NASA EPSCoR RAP award for collaborative work with Dr. John Pojman from the Department of Chemistry.
Our conference paper, "Curing Behavior Simulator for Robotic 3D Printing of UV-Curable Thermoset Polymers", was accepted to ANTEC 2022. It was submitted as a result from Luke Weger's REU this past summer.
Armaghan Naderi's paper is accepted in the Journal of Industrial Textiles. Congratulations!
Wencai Li presents her research paper at SPE ACCE 2021 (November 4, 2021, Novi MI).
Our LAMDA and NRI teams submitted two papers to CAMX 2021 : both were accepted and invited for presentations (virtual and in person, October 20, 2021, Dallas TX).
Congratulations to Armaghan Naderi for successfully defending her PhD dissertation!
Luke Weger (REU Smart Polymers) wins second place for best research presentation at the LS-PAC MODELS virtual conference. Congratulations!
Armaghan Naderi's paper is accepted in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c09034). Congratulations!
Olufemi Ajayi and Luke Weger join our group for a virtual Smart Polymers REU this summer. Welcome!
Harry Frederick's and Wencai Li's paper, entitled "Disassembly study of ultrasonically welded thermoplastic composite joints via resistance heating", was accepted for publication in Materials (Special Issue “Ultrasound for Material Characterization and Processing”). Congratulations!
Dr. Palardy receives the 2021 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award. Couldn't have done it without my amazing research group!
Dr. Palardy (as Co-PI, with PI Dr. Corina Barbalata) receives a LAMDA Seed Funding Track1B: Collaborative Partnership Award to work on a learning-based control system for robotic 3D printing of UV curable thermoset polymers.
We received the NSF CAREER Award 2021!