CELL and MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES

Tringides Lab

We develop materials that can mimic biological systems, to enable improved biological interfaces. Part of our lab develops, characterizes, and assembles new soft materials to create fully viscoelastic implantable devices. The other part uses these materials for in vitro culture systems, to create physiologically-mimicked platforms. Our goal is to understand mechanisms of neural function, and advance the treatment and diagnosis of neurological disorders.

Research Areas

Soft Material Development and Characterization

Materials fabrication, materials processing

Tissue-Like Materials

Hydrogels, scaffold, cell-material interactions, functional materials

Physiologically-Mimicked-Multilaterial-Platforms-sm

Physiologically Mimicked Multimaterial Platforms

Microphysiological systems, development, disease

Ultraconformable Viscoelastic Electrode Arrays

Implantable devices, disease, neuromodulation

Meet the lab!

Recent news!

Read about our ghostly gels 👻

by mp165 | October 23, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

In the spirit of Halloween, the Materials Science & Nanoengineering office featured a spooky twist on the different labs' research purposes. Here's their ghostly twist on our living hydrogels and how they blur the line between the living and the synthetic 🎃:

Take the Cake celebration for Nicole!

by mp165 | October 23, 2025 | General, Lab Bonding | 0 Comments

Nicole received a cake this year from the office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at Rice to celebrate her honorable mention in the NSF Fellows program! We're super proud of you, Nicole! Thank you for sharing your delicious cake with all of us!

Triple birthday celebration for Ava, Jeeho and Colombe!

by mp165 | October 23, 2025 | General, Lab Bonding | 0 Comments

Last Tuesday (October 14) , we held birthday celebrations for Ava, Jeeho and Colombe! Besides our cupcake and selfie customs, we established a new Tringides Lab tradition of singing 'Happy Birthday' once per person to give everyone the celebration they deserve on...

Welcome Colombe!

by mp165 | October 9, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

We are delighted to welcome Colombe Archambaud to our lab as a visiting student! Colombe grew up in the South of France, on the beautiful French Riviera, and is currently studying at CentraleSupélec, a French engineering school in Paris. She has also taken courses in...

Welcome, Elizabeth and Luthfia!

by mp165 | October 6, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

We’re thrilled to welcome two new master’s students to the Tringides lab — Elizabeth and Luthfia! Elizabeth joins us from McAllen, Texas, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Business Administration from The University of...

The first review from one of our lab members – congratulations Ava!

by mp165 | September 11, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

We congratulate Ava Zoba for writing and publishing the review titled "Material considerations for delivering therapeutics across the blood–brain barrier" on August 2025 in the APL Materials journal! By examining how different materials interact with the BBB and how...

We welcome our newest member: Panagiota!

by mp165 | September 5, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

We are delighted to welcome Panagiota Dedousi to the Tringides Lab! Panagiota is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and NanoEngineering department at Rice University. Originally from Athens, Greece, she earned her undergraduate degree in Electrical...

Welcome (and happy birthday) Yimeng Xu!

by mp165 | August 14, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

The Tringides Lab is thrilled to welcome Yimeng Xu to our group! Yimeng is an incoming fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), majoring in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. Her broad research interests lie at the...

Goodbye party for Nick!

by mp165 | August 6, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

As summer ends, the lab says goodbye to Nick Kyriakides-Crowe, our visiting undergrad student from University of Southern California. We were glad to see Nick working hard throughout his stay at the lab, his work on alginate hydrogels' mechanical properties propelled...

SURF 2025 – Angel’s poster presentation

by mp165 | August 6, 2025 | General | 0 Comments

Last week we had our summer undergraduate student Angel de La Fuente present his work at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship 2025 poster session! This was his first time ever presenting a poster, and we're glad to say he did an amazing job! With this work...