Xianming (Simon) Dai served as a judge in the 2018 Plano ISD Secondary Science Fair for middle and high school students.

The Dai group gave Tech Demos of Nature Inspired Liquid Repellent Coatings to local middle and high school students in 2017 National Engineers Week. Special thanks to our team!

Our “Slippery Wenzel State” paper has been selected as one of the prestigious JALA Ten 2016. Each year, JALA seeks to highlight and honor the best work of the year that will have a deep impact on how technology is used across a wide range of disciplines. 

Our bioinspired slippery surface has been successfully used for ultra-sensitive detection. The manuscript entitled “Ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection in common fluids” was directly submitted to the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and got published online.

ACS Nano invited us to submit a video about our work entitled “Slippery Wenzel State”, due to its large number of downloads by the international readers. Watch the video!

Our “Slippery Wenzel State” paper ranks NO. 1 among the most read articles in ACS Nano from September to October 2015. Please check it out!

NSF Science360 reported our work of “Slippery Wenzel State”. They specifically explained what Cassie and Wenzel states are. Watch the video!

CCTV, the largest television broadcaster in China, reported our work of “Slippery Wenzel State”. They envision the area of liquid repellent materials is promising and hope to provide guidance for Chinese investors. Watch the video!