Dylan Barton
Seeking a PhD in chemical engineering
Affiliated Lab
Assistant Professor Kōnane Bay
Huli Materials Lab
What does receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship mean to you?
This award shows me that hard work pays off! I am ecstatic to have earned this money to fund my research projects. I also do STEM outreach, so this money supports me in the time outside of lab to help build up the next generation of scientists/engineers.
Current Research Focus
I make and test polymer films (very thin layers of plastic) thinner than a human hair to study how they fail when stretched. The ability for polymers to have strong material properties at small scales greatly improves their applications in coatings, transistors and other products.