MEAM Seminar: “From Rogue Waves to Origami: Energy Focusing and Dissipation in Mechanical Metamaterials”
Mechanical metamaterials offer unique opportunities to focus or dissipate energy through controlled wave dynamics. I will first present experimental studies of wave localization in one-dimensional nonlinear lattices, where we observed […]
MEAM Seminar: “Nonlinear Modeling, Synthesis, and Design-for-Additive Manufacturing of Smart Compliant Mechanisms”
Compliant mechanisms have been the subject of intense research in recent decades. Making compliant mechanisms “smart” to form flexible, adaptive structures is the focus of my research group, with applications […]
Eli Burstein Lecture in Materials Science: “Toward Intelligent Metamaterial Machines,” Katia Bertoldi – Harvard University
Flexible mechanical metamaterials are engineered structures whose unique geometries allow them to display remarkable behaviors, especially in the nonlinear regime. These systems hold promise for enabling the next generation of […]
MSE Seminar: “Polymer Chain-End Chemistry: Unlocking Next-Generation Functional Materials”
End-group functionalization has become a powerful and versatile strategy in polymer science, enabling precise control over physical properties, nanoscale self-assembly, and interfacial functionality without modifying the polymer backbone. In our […]
MSE Seminar: “Ion Transport in Hydrated Anion Conducting Polyelectrolytes” – Paul F. Nealey – Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering of the University of Chicago, Senior Scientist at Argonne National laboratory
The realization of next-generation electrochemical technologies demands anion-conducting polymers that break the fundamental trade-offs between conductivity, stability, and swelling. Ion transport in these materials is a complex, emergent property that […]
Responsive Materials Meet Intelligence
Fold It. Stretch It. Build it. Shape it. Responsive Materials Meet Intelligence. Keynote Speakers: H. Jerry Qi Woodruff Endowed Professor George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Georgia Institute of […]
MSE Seminar: “Building Cyberinfrastructure for Advancing Laboratories of the Future”
The development of automated experimental facilities and the growing trend of experimental data digitization brought enormous opportunities for radically advancing laboratories. As many laboratory research tasks involve predicting and understanding […]
MSE PhD Thesis Defense: “Rheology and Clogging Study of Filamentous Suspensions: Bridging Microscopic Dynamics and Macroscopic Behaviors”
Suspensions of filamentous materials, or filamentous suspensions, represent a unique class of complex fluids in which the interplay between particle anisotropy and filament interactions – both intra- and inter-filament associations –gives […]
MEAM Ph.D. Thesis Defense: “Exploring Self-Assembly of 2D Materials: Insights from Graphene Auto-Kirigami”
In nature, thin sheets bend, fold, and curve to create functional three-dimensional forms—from insect wings to leaves and flower petals. Over the past decades, such behavior has inspired engineered systems […]
MSE Seminar : “Semiconducting Materials for Opto/Bioelectronic Applications; Chemistry, Processing and Device Engineering” Antonio Facchetti – Georgia Institute of Technology
In this presentation we report the realization of novel semiconductor materials, as well as thin-film processing and morphology engineering, for flexible and stretchable organic electronic devices such as thin film […]