News!

  • 03/23/2026 Alessandro d’Amico will present the research he conducted during his REU at Northwestern University at the ACS Spring 2026 Meeting.

  • 01/2026 Abhi was invited as a long-term visitor in KITP Program “Soft Earth Geophysics”.

  • 12/19/2025 Two works from our group (led by Alessandro d’Amico & Armin Aminimajd) were featured in “A year of discovery: 10 research breakthroughs at CWRU.” What a way to end the year!

  • 12/01/2025 Ria Duggal nominated by the university for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

  • 11/01/2025 Perspective on dense suspension rheology “Quick starch guide: a perspective on shear thickening in dense non-Brownian suspensions” was published in Rheologica Acta.

  • 10/30/2025 Alessandro d’Amico presents our work at the Future of Rheology Seminar series, as the only undergraduate student in the seminar series history to present.

  • 10/10/2025 Alessandro d’Amico gets awarded the “Future Leader in Chemical Engineering” (FLICE) Award by NC State and was invited to present his research.

  • 09/2025 Abhi received Early Career Rheologist by Rheologica Acta – European Society of Rheology.

  • 08/08/2025 Alessandro d’Amico finishes his internship at Northwestern University as part of the NSF CMCC REU Program. While there he worked on building a first-principles cluster expansion of chromium based binary alloys under PhD student Abhinav Roy in Dr. Rondinelli’s group.

  • 07/15/2025 Shweta Sharma selected among the top Ph.D. and postdoctoral research scholars faculty candidates from institutions across the United States, NSF-Sponsored Future Faculty Workshop, University of California, Irvine.

  • 07/03/2025 Armin Aminimajd’s work on frictional contact network in near-jamming suspensions published in Physics of Fluids.

  • 06/20/2025 Armin Aminimajd’s work in Soft Matter was highlighted by journal on Bluesky.

  • 06/15/2025 Ria Duggal named an ACS Scholar by the American Chemical Society.

  • 06/10/2025 For our JCP article, we were invited to contribute Selected for the AIP Publishing Showcase on Kudos.

  • 06/06/2025 Ria Duggal invited to present at Ohio State University Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Day.

  • 06/2025 Abhi was nominated for Jackson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring.

  • 06/05/2025 Sidong Tu awarded First Place for Poster Presentation at Ohio Polymer and Soft Matter Symposium.

  • 06/05/2025 Ria Duggal awarded First Place for Undergraduate Lighting Talk at Ohio Polymer and Soft Matter Symposium.

  • 06/04/2025 Abhi with Ben Yavitt (Orhun Ayar & Sujata Dhakal as co-organizers) organized The Ohio Polymer and Soft Matter Symposium. The event was a massive success and featured participants from Case, Akron, UIUC, Kent State, CMU.

  • 06/04/2025 Alessandro d’Amico & Sidong Tu’s work showing importance of third-order loops in shear thickening suspensions is published in JCP. Our work featured in the special Collection: 2025 JCP Emerging Investigators Special Collection.

  • 04/29/2025 Alessandro d’Amico presented our research at the AIChE Midwest Regional Conference.

  • 04/15/2025 Ria Duggal awarded SOURCE Funding to complete summer internship in the group.

  • 03/2025 Abhi received Early-Career and Emerging Investigator award by The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

  • 02/19/2025 Armin Aminimajd’s work on GNN to predict frictional force chains is published in Soft Matter. We were also featured on the back cover of the issue.

  • 01/03/2025 Alessandro d’Amico’s work at Argonne National Labs highlighted by the Case Western undergraduate admissions office.

  • 01/2025 Abhi was nominated for John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching.

  • 01/2025 Our work in collaboration with Prof. Sundararaj (Calgary) on suspensions in polymer melt is published in Rheologica Acta.

  • 11/01/2024 Alessandro d’Amico wins 1st place in the Climate Action Week Essay contest.

  • 10/24/2024 Our work in Phys. Rev. E was highlighted on social media.

  • 10/20/2024 Our work on shear thickening in bidisperse suspensions is published in Physical Review E.

  • 10/12/2024 Armin Aminimajd awarded travel grant for Society of Rheology.

  • 08/01/2024 Alessandro d’Amico completes his summer internship at Argonne National Laboratory as part of the SULI program. While there he worked under Dr. Jie Li on the construction, operation, and improvement of a PtNi colloidal nanoparticle reactor.

  • 07/2024 Abhi awarded Doctoral New Investigator Award by ACS Petroleum Research Fund.

  • 07/02/2024 Alessandro d’Amico’s extracurricular achievements, including his research in m2mvmlab, highlighted as part of the Spartan Showcase series by the CWRU Newsroom.

  • 06/2024 Abhi elected as Junior Discussion Leader for the Young Investigator Workshop at 8th International Soft Matter Conference, NCSU, USA.

  • 04/26/2024 Alessandro d’Amico won the Outstanding Sophomore of the Year in Chemical Engineering” by CWRU’s Chemical Engineering department.

  • 04/03/2024 Orhun Ayar chosen as 2024 recipient of the Callahan Fellowship.

  • 03/04/2024 Alessandro d’Amico presented our research at the AIChE Midwest Regional Conference.

  • 01/2024 Abhi awarded CWRU UCITE Learning Fellowship by Case Western Reserve University

  • 01/24/2024 Our work on rigid clusters in dense frictional suspensions is published in Nature Physics!

  • 11/15/2023 Ryan Pappalardo and Alessandro D’Amico Awarded for Outstanding Research by the Board of Trustees.

  • 10/29/2023 Check out our recent perspective in MRS Communications. We are featured at the Cover of the Early Career Materials Researcher Prospective Issue.

  • 10/28/2023 Our collaborative work with Morzova group on polymer gels was published in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics.

  • 10/10/2023 Our work is featured at the Back Cover of Soft Matter.

  • 08/10/2023 First Paper Published! “Scaling relationships between viscosity and diffusivity in shear-thickening suspensions.” Find it in Soft Matter.

  • 06/2023 Abhi awarded Best Presentation by a First Time Attendee at Viscoplastic Fluids (VPF9) Workshop.

  • 05/08/2023 Freshmen students Alessandro d’Amico and Ryan Pappalardo recognized for the engineering collaboration they did under Dr. Singh’s supervision by the Case School of Engineering Newsroom.

  • 01/2023 Abhi received Early Career Materials Researcher by MRS Communication – Material Research Society.

  • 08/02/2022 Paper with Jamali Group published in PRL. The work was featured on the cover and also in #PRLtrending.