Anne Cardenas is a member of the Responsive and Active Materials and Manufacturing Group as well as a member of the Center for Engineered Materials and Manufacturing in the Materials Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Anne Cardenas has a B.S. in NanoEngineering with a focus in Materials Science from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles. She initially joined LLNL in 2018 as a summer undergraduate researcher through the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. She returned for three more consecutive summer internships, another through the SULI program and two more as a summer graduate student researcher via the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) Fellowship. She was hired as a member of the technical staff in 2022.

Anne has expertise in several subjects such as nanoparticle synthesis, wearable sensor development, strain sensors, additive manufacturing, conductive polymers, conductive hydrogels as well as materials characterization of conducting polymers, soft materials, and nanoparticles. Current projects include the development of flexible and self-powered electrophoretic displays as well as the development of energy management materials.

MS, Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, 2022

BS, NanoEngienering, University of California, San Diego, 2020

AA, Mathematics and Pre-Engineering, San Diego City College, 2017

B. Yao, L.S. de Vasconcelos, Q. Cui, A. Cardenas, Y. Yan, Y. Du, D. Wu, S. Wu, T.K. Hsiai, N. Lu, X. Zhu, X. He. “High-stability conducting polymer-based conformal electrodes for bio-/iono-electronics”. Materials Today, 2022, 53, 84-97

B. Yao, S. Wu, R. Wang, Y. Yan, A. Cardenas, D. Wu, Y. Alsaid, W. Wu, X. Zhu, X. He. “Hydrogel Ionotronics with Ultra-Low Impedance and High Signal Fidelity across Broad Frequency and Temperature Ranges”. Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32 (10), 2109506.

J. Ramírez, D. Rodriquez, A.D. Urbina, A.M. Cardenas, D.J. Lipomi. “Combining high sensitivity and dynamic range: wearable thin-film composite strain sensors of graphene, ultrathin palladium, and PEDOT: PSS”. ACS applied nano materials, 2019, 2 (4), 2222-2229.

UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Program (2021—2022)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2020—2022)

National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) Fellow (2020—2021)

UCSD Kathryn Lane Alumni Scholarship (2019—2020)

Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Conference Materials Research Best Poster Award (2019)

LLNL Summer Engineering Best Poster Award (2019)

San Diego Foundation Helm Family Scholarship (2018—2019)

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME) Fellow (2017—2020)