Tag Archive | graduate students
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.
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 […]
MMD lab goes to SES
Four MMD lab group members, PhD candidates Zhongtong Wang and Max Tepermeister, and Postdocs Si Chen and Robert Wagner, presented at the Society of Engineering Science annual conference in Minneapolis last week. Si and Robert were also selected to participate in the Future Faculty symposium! As usual Prof Silberstein did not succeed in taking a […]
Congratulations Dr. Steven Yang!
Congratulations to Dr. Steven Yang! He successfully defended his PhD thesis “THE INFLUENCE OF MOLECULAR-SCALE INTERACTIONS ON MACROSCOPIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN POLYMERIC MATERIALS” one week ago. His PhD work impressively spanned synthesis, experiments, molecular dynamics simulations, and continuum constitutive modeling.
ACS Fall 2023
PhD Candidate Hongyi Cai and Prof Silberstein participated in the Fall ACS meeting in San Francisco earlier this month. Hongyi focused on his polyelectrolyte synthesis and characterization. Prof Silberstein participated in the “Polymer Mechanochemistry Symposium” and the “Polymeric Materials: From Synthesis to Application: USA-Israel Joint Symposium”, and snuck out after her talk on modeling mechanochemically […]
Congratulations Tianke and Rahul
Congratulations to Tianke Chen and Rahul Ghosh for successfully defending their masters! Both Tianke and Rahul worked on novel polymer matrix concepts for improving resin transfer molding of polymer matrix composites. Tianke is going on to a PhD program and Rahul will be starting an industry position.
Mechanics for Material Design 