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Living Architecture!
Ellen van Wijngaarden and Meredith Silberstein have a new paper out in Materials Advances on scalable manufacturing with freeform deposition of mycelium-bound composites. This work is in collaboration with the Wisniewska lab in Cornell’s Architecture department.
MMD Lab at SES
MMD lab members Ellen van Wijngaarden, Si Chen, Jaehee Lee, and Meredith Silberstein all presented at the Society of Engineering Science annual technical meeting in Atlanta last week. The team also caught up with MMD alumni Rob Wagner (now faculty at Binghamton University) and Allison Rzepka (now a PhD student at University of Illinois)!
New Paper in Nature Communications
Our lab is excited to share that Dr. Si Chen, ELMI and Fleming Postdoctoral Fellow, is the first author of our new paper, “Fibrous network nature of plant cell walls enables tunable mechanics for development,” published in Nature Communications. This interdisciplinary study, at the interface of solid mechanics and plant developmental biology, was made possible […]
Advancing Ionic Circuits!
A new paper, “Harnessing ionic complexity: A modeling approach for hierarchical ionic circuit design” is now out in APS Physical Review Applied and was led by Dr. Max Tepermeister. In this work, we developed a flexible circuit-like model for designing and understanding the behavior of ionic circuitry. Our model allows designers to approach ionic circuitry […]
Congratulations Max!
Dr. Max Tepermeister successfully defended his PhD thesis “Ionic and Chemical Systems Modeling”. He’ll be starting this fall as the Cecil and Sally Drinkward Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech.
Regulating Hydrogel Stiffness with Electric Fields
Work led by the newly minted Dr. Cai is now published in Materials Horizons. In “Regulating hydrogel mechanical properties with an electric field,” Dr. Cai designs a gel that is stable despite having strong saloplasticity (getting 5x stiffer when all of the salt is removed) and then shows how external electric fields can be used […]
Congrats Hongyi!
Congratulations Dr. Hongyi Cai for successfully defending his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering earlier this month! Also, thanks for choosing the best kind of celebration (Cornell Dairy Bar Ice Cream)!!!
Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems GRC
Max Tepermeister and Si Chen participated Complex Active and Adaptive Material Systems Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference at the end of January in sunny Ventura, CA. This year’s theme was Active and Biomimetic Materials That Embody Intelligence. Si presented her work on engineering mechanics and growth of plant leaves. And Max won best […]
New paper on Protective Material Properties of Intestinal Mucus
Our latest paper “The Role of Human Intestinal Mucus in the Prevention of Microplastic Uptake and Cell Damage” is now published in RSC Biomaterials Science. This work was led by PhD candidate Ellen van Wijngaarden, who is co-advised by Prof Ilana Brito of Cornell’s BME department. We used intact human intestinal mucus layers to best […]
Happy New Year from the MMD Lab!
And also, after only 12 years . . . unveiling our lab logo. Credit to Max for the design with support from Hongyi.
Mechanics for Material Design 