We seek to advance textiles' boundaries toward innovative applications including but not limited to soft robotics, sensors and actuators, filtration, and protective gears. To achieve our goal, we work to understand surface and macroscopic level of interactions between water and textiles that are crucial for many of textiles' basic functions. With sustainable manufacturing and usage in mind, we aim to to utilize the most abundant natural resource -microorganisms- to develop technical textiles. See below for our specific projects.