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New paper on material processing of bacterial polymers
Our latest paper “Engineering bacterial biomanufacturing: characterization and manipulation of Sphingomonas sp. LM7 extracellular polymers” is now published in RSC Soft Matter. This study was spearheaded by Ellen van Wijngaarden in collaboration with Prof. David Hershey’s lab at Wisconsin-Madison. We identified the material properties of a novel polysaccharide, Promonan, and demonstrated improved thermal stability and […]
Hongyi Cai’s collaborative paper on tailoring Biomimetic Cationic Polyelectrolytes now published in Angewandte Chemie
MMD lab’s emerging collaboration with Prof Ben McDonald of Brown University’s Chemistry Department has its first publication! PhD candidate Hongyi Cai lent his expertise in mechanical testing of polyelectrolyte elastomers and gels to help enable “Ion-Specific Interactions Engender Dynamic and Tailorable Properties in Biomimetic Cationic Polyelectrolytes.”
Outreach and Orienteering
This past Thursday and Friday the MMD lab, led by PhD student Max Tepermeister, hosted a 4-H University U program for middle and high school students on Mechanics of Materials, highlighting cool features of meta-materials. Si, Jeff, Ellen, and Zhongtong all helped out! Then on Saturday we went on our first ever lab orienteering adventure, […]
Congratulations to Zhongtong and Ellen!
Congratulations to Zhongtong and Ellen for being accepted into the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) student paper competition and to Ellen for receiving the 3rd place award! Both students presented their work this past Monday at the SEM annual conference in Vancouver Washington.
Congratulations Ellen!
Congratulations for PhD candidate Ellen van Wijngaarden for passing her A-exam!
Congratulations and Good Luck to Robert and Steven!
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Wagner, who is starting a tenure track faculty position in the Binghamton University Mechanical Engineering department this week! And . . . Congratulations to Dr. Steven Yang who started a postdoctoral position with Prof Nikolaos Bouklas at Cornell just before the holidays! Steven defended in the early fall and participated in […]
Paper on modeling the transient behavior of ionic diodes out in Advanced Sensor Research
Ionic diodes, created at the intersection of polymers with different fixed charges, form the core of many ionic devices. Despite this centrality, the time dependent behavior of these diodes is not well understood. In a new paper published in Advanced Sensor Research and led by PhD candidate Max Tepermeister, we use a finite-volume based continuum […]
MMD alum Rahul Ghosh’s thesis work highlighted by Ansys
Recent MMD lab member Rahul Ghosh has had his innovative use of PyFluent in the MS thesis highlighted by Ansys. Check out the Ansys blog post here.
Understanding Single Chain Mechanochemistry
“Mechanochemistry in Block Copolymers: New Scission Site due to Dynamic Phase Separation” is now published in Angewandte Chemie. This study was led by Dr. Hang Zhen, a postdoc in Charles Diesendruck’s group at the Technion. We showed how the conformation of block copolymers is a critical component for their rate of degradation under mechanical loading […]
New paper on microstructural modeling of polyurea
Our research paper “Elucidating the impact of microstructure on mechanical properties of phase-segregated polyurea: Finite element modeling of molecular dynamics derived microstructures” is now published in Mechanics of Materials. This study was led by Dr. Steven Yang, who recently completed his PhD in the lab, in collaboration with Dr. Stephanie Rosenbloom and Prof. Brett Fors […]
Mechanics for Material Design 