A phone screen gets touched all day. Fingers tap messages, scroll through pages, move photos around, open apps, and swipe across the same small areas …

Understanding how material properties govern surface interaction and performance.
How materials influence comfort and usability in daily life.

A phone screen gets touched all day. Fingers tap messages, scroll through pages, move photos around, open apps, and swipe across the same small areas …

Everyday items do more work than they seem to Bowls and chopsticks are part of normal daily life. They sit on the table, move from …

Plastic is present in small, ordinary ways: a food container on a counter, a storage box on a shelf, a handle on a tool, a …