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Welcome!

The Huli Materials Lab is broadly interested in fabricating and characterizing traditionally difficult to handle materials, such as ultrathin polymer films (< 100 nm), biofilms, and engineered living materials.  

Our laboratory name, Huli Materials Lab, comes from the hua ʻōlelo (Hawaiian word), huli. Huli means to study, to change, and is a part of kalo (taro) that is replanted into the ground to produce new kalo. Kalo is a highly sustainable food source and traditional food staple for Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian people). Our group is inspired by the innate sustainability of the huli kalo cycle to develop new methods to fabricate and characterize sustainable polymeric materials for applications in biotechnology, sensing, and protection. 

Our work is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary, combining expertise from mechanics, engineering, microbiology, materials science, and polymer physics.