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Annual CHESS Users Meeting
The annual Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source users meeting was this past Tuesday (6/9/15). Graduate student Naigeng Chen presented a poster showing off some nonwoven mechanics results from the uCT facility he has helped develop at the F3 station. Professor Silberstein is now officially chair of the User Executive Committee. Thanks to outgoing chair Katsu […]
Welcome and congratulations!
Welcome to Cornell undergraduates Cristian Alonso, Aimee Owens, and Simran Rastogi who are officially joining the MMD lab for the summer. All of them have won research awards through the Cornell Engineering Learning Initiative!
First paper published!
The MMD lab has just published its first paper. “Mechanoactivation of Spiropyran Covalently Linked PMMA: Effect of Temperature, Strain Rate, and Deformation Mode” is currently available online in the ASAP portion of Macromolecules (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ma502555d). This experimental work led by postdoctoral associate Jae Woo Kim advances understanding of how mechanophores respond to externally applied stress when […]
Taisu Kumar joins the MMD lab
Welcome to new MMD lab member Taisu Kumar. Taisu will be doing the project portion of his Mechanical Engineering MEng degree synthesizing and characterizing mechanochromic polymers. As you can see, he is already at work doing science.
Open Positions
The MMD lab is looking for currently enrolled Cornell MEng or undergraduate students interested in working for credit Spring 2015 and then for pay over the summer assuming sufficient progress. Available projects are at the intersection of mechanics with either materials science or biology. Please contact Prof Silberstein (ms2682@cornell.edu) with a CV or resume.
Congrats to Meenakshi Sundaram!
Congratulations to Meenakshi Sundaram for passing his A-exam yesterday!
Welcome to Francisco Candido!
First year MAE graduate student Francisco Candido has officially joined the MMD lab! Francisco earned his undergraduate degree at San Diego State and has already received an NSF Graduate Research fellowship and a Cornell Sloan Fellowship. Francisco will begin his PhD research working on composites in collaboration with the Shepherd group.
Jesse Kidd Presents at SERMACS
Former MMD lab REU student Jesse Kidd presented a poster at the recent Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society. His poster covered his synthesis and mechanical testing of spiropyran-linked PDMS that he performed working with Jaewoo Kim this summer.
New.MECH 2014
This past weekend half the MMD lab drove out to western Massachusetts for the 1 day annual mechanics conference New.MECH hosted this year by UMass Amherst. Graduate student Naigeng Chen presented his experimental work on non-wovens.
Welcome to Simge Uzun!
Fiber sciences masters student Simge Uzun will be a joint member of the MMD lab and the Hinestroza Textiles Nanotechnology Lab. Her masters thesis will focus on the production and characterization of nonwovens.
Mechanics for Material Design 