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05/01/2012
Dr. Sundaresan's group will be moving to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University from Fall 2012. Please check back for new contact information.

05/01/2012
Dr. Sundaresan receives NSF REU award to support an undergraduate student in summer 2012.

04/16/2012
Dr. Pidaparti and Dr. Sundaresan win Phase-II ONR Grant to investigate pH regulation using tailored bioderived nanostructures for corrosion control

11/30/2011
H. Zhang et al's paper titled Conducting polymer supported bilayer lipid membrane reconstituted with alamethicin published in Smart Material Structures

07/15/2011
Our team of VCU, Astro-Terra Corp and Virginia Tech win ARO STTR Phase I award in 2010 cycle for the proposal titled 'Hierarchically Assembled Self-Healing Material'

04/04/2011
Dr. Pidaparti and Dr. Sundaresan win ONR Grant to investigate pH regulation using tailored bioderived nanostructures for corrosion control

03/03/2011
Dr. Sundaresan wins Qimonda Discretionary Funds for Junior Faculty Professional Development program in VCU School of Engineering.

02/07/2011
Dr. Sundaresan wins NSF CAREER award from ENG/CMMI division.

01/22/2011
Dr. Sundaresan starts a new graduate level special topics course titled 'Applied Membrane Biophysics'

12/16/2010
Postdoctoral position in MD simulation,
Mechanical Engineering Graduate student seeking doctoral degree and interested in Smart Materials.

12/14/2010
Dr. Sundaresan wins the VCU PRIP award for his proposal titled 'Thin-film Ionic Transistor Devices'.

12/8/2010
Our team of VCU, Astro-Terra Corp and Virginia Tech win NASA STTR Phase I award in 2010 cycle for the proposal titled 'Self-Healing Inflatable Extraterrestrial ShieLD (SHIELD)'

10/13/2010
Patent No. 12/889,857 and titled Magnetoelectric Surgical Tools for Minimally Invasive Surgery filed with USPTO

10/2/2010
Talks on Bio-derived ionic transistors and dynamic characterization of magnetoelectric cantilever for surical tools were presented at the ASME SMASIS-10 Conference (Philadelphia, CA) Sep 29-Oct 1, 2010.

03/15/2010
Talks on Dynamic modeling of Magnetoelectric methods and prototyping BLMs to be presented on Mar 10, 2010 in the SPIE Smart structures conference in San Diego, CA,

03/01/2010
Josh Clarke selected as a GANN fellow in the School of Engineering.

01/15/2010
Hao Zhang joins the group as a doctoral student

09/20/2009
Talks on magnetoelectric self-sensing actuators and a hybrid chemomechanical actuator presented at the ASME SMASIS-09 Conference in (Oxnard, CA), Sep 21-23, 2009.

08/20/2009
Dr. Sundaresan teaches a special topics course 'Modeling Methods for Active Materials' for students in Engineering

06/25/2009
Matt Castellucci graduates with M.S. from Virginia Tech (June 2009)