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(August 2025) Exactly one year after establishing the lab at OU, we successfully achieved our first growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests. This milestone was made possible through the dedicated efforts of the Spring 2025 Capstone Design team and the invaluable support from the Microfabrication Research & Education (MREC) Cleanroom. With this foundation, we are excited to begin refining the growth process and advancing toward the development of CNT-based nanocomposites.

(April 2025) Our collaborative proposal with Dr. Yijie Jiang, titled "Experimental Planning and Optimization of Nanotube Synthesis via Data-driven Machine Learning", has been selected for the DISC Faculty Seed Funding Program ($12500). In this project, we aim to use the collected processing data (temperature, mass flow rate, and pressure) to aid experimental planning and process optimization for the synthesis of boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs).