Philly Materials Day, a day-long science and engineering festival, returned to an in-person program this year on Saturday, February 11, 2023. More than 85 volunteers from 15 different LRSM-affiliated research groups combined forces with Drexel’s Materials Science and Engineering department to run a series of hands-on demonstrations for more than 600 attendees (K-12 students and their families). For a full list of demonstrations, see below!
| Research Group | Demo Title |
| Eric Stach | Superconducting Levitation |
| Shu Yang | Origami /Kirigami and hydrogels |
| Kevin Turner | Sticky Materials |
| Zahra Fakhraai | Fun with lights and glasses |
| Ekaterina Grishchuk | Why is blood liquid in our arteries but it clots quickly in laboratory tubes? |
| Steven Szewczyk | Non-Newtonian Fluids |
| Liang Wu | Electromagnetism Demonstration |
| E. James Petersson | Bright Molecules for Brain Studies |
| Russell Composto | Shrinking Polymers |
| Kathleen Stebe | Introduction to Liquid Crystals |
| Arjun Yodh | What is an Emulsion? |
| Rob Carpick | Tribology: The Science of Friction |
| Jordan Raney | The Utility of Instability |
| Lee Bassett | Colors, Lasers, Fluorescence, and Computer Screens |
| Chris Murray | Visualizing Nanoscale Materials |
