Our new grant from the NSF “RAPID: Superhydrophobic and Photocatalytic Antimicrobial (SPA) Coatings” The PI: Prof. Konstantin Sobolev, coPIs: M. Nosonovsky, N. Kouklin, D. Frick. Superhydrophobicity is not only self-cleaning, but also anti-bacterial. We will investigate anti-viral properties as well… Read More
Konstantin Sobolev, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Co-PI: Michael Nosonovsky, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering “Superhydrophobic and Photocatalytic Anticorrosive (XPAC) Coatings” The surface topographies of samples M1, M5, M6, and M10. The PVA fibers are highlighted in… Read More
Our project “Theoretically based methods for generating and monitoring levitating droplet clusters and biochemical experiments in microreactor droplets” (19-19-00076), PI: Dr. A. Fedorets (University of Tyumen, Russia), coPIs: Drs. M. Nosonovsky (UWM), L. A. Dombrovsky (Moscow, RAS), E. Bormashenko (Ariel… Read More
Completed the NSF I-Corps (innovation corps) program, together with my graduate student Sridhar Lanka. Now we are almost ready to become innovative entrepreneurs and startuppers! 🙂 Learned a lot about customer discovery, the value proposition canvas, and minimal viable products,… Read More
Our proposal “Acoustic Real-Time Detection of Pathogens and Nanoparticles in Water and their Removal” was awarded UWM 2018-2019 Research Growth Initiative® award. This internal competition grant is externally peer-reviewed. I will be hiring a Research Assistant PhD student (inquiries by… Read More