MEAM Seminar: “From Mollusk Shells to Dense Architectured Materials to Granular Crystals: How Building Blocks and Weak Interfaces Create High Mechanical Performance”
Regular building blocks of controlled shape and size can be assembled to create fully dense “architectured” materials and structures. When the building blocks are very stiff and when they interact […]
MEAM Seminar: “Agile Maneuver with Under-Actuated Millirobots”
Decimeter-scale robots can use a wide range of techniques to maneuver in challenging environments in spite of lacking the actuated degrees of freedom typically seen in larger robots. Agile maneuver […]
MEAM Seminar: “Biomimetic Design of Marine Robots and Sensors”
Inspiration from animal function can lead to effective design of engineered systems. Ocean systems benefit especially as operation in a heavy medium such as water imparts significant forces. We provide […]
PICS Colloquium: “Mechanics of Polymeric Gels”
This talk discusses recent and ongoing research on the multiphysics response of polymeric gels. A polymeric gel is a polymeric material swollen by a fluid, and the intake or out-flow […]
MEAM Seminar: “Microfluidic Devices with Capillary Circuits for User-friendly, Low-cost, Multiplexed Point-of-care, Molecular Diagnostics”
Rapid, sensitive, and specific detection is key to personalized medicine and to the prompt implementation of appropriate mitigation measures to reduce disease transmission, mortality, morbidity, and cost. Conventional molecular detection […]
MEAM Seminar: “Understanding Particulate Soft Materials: An Integrated Approach for Novel Energy and Environmental Solutions”
Many industrial processes involve multiphase soft materials in which solid particles are dispersed or co-exists with a fluid phase and are therefore referred to as Particulate Soft Materials (PSMs). Examples […]
MEAM Seminar: “Unknown Unknowns in Designing Porous Intercalation Electrodes for Batteries”
Many batteries, including the state-of-the-art Lithium-ion technology, use porous intercalation electrodes. In such electrodes, energy is stored in the form of ions intercalating in particles. The conventional approach to designing […]
MEAM Seminar: “Robot-assisted Imaging of Neuromuscular Function: New Insights on the Neural Substrates of Motor Control”
Can we use robots to help humans learn a new motor skill, or to improve performance of a motor task? What are the neural substrates that support motor learning under […]
MEAM Seminar: “The Unsteady Aerodynamics of Wind Power Generation”
Wind energy plays a crucial role in clean energy generation. Currently, horizontal axis wind turbines dominate the wind energy sector. Nevertheless, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have some advantages over […]
MEAM Seminar: “Uncovering the Rules of Crumpling with a Data-Driven Approach”
When a sheet of paper is crumpled, it spontaneously develops a network of creases. Despite the apparent disorder of this process, statistical properties of crumpled sheets exhibit striking reproducibility. Recent […]