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Hybrid Living Coatings to Detect Structural Damage
“Mechanically Driven Bacteria‐Based Crack Detection” led by PhD candidate Ellen van Wijngaarden is now published in RSC Materials Advances! In a collaborative work with the Giometto, Brito, and Bouklas labs at Cornell, we created a biohybrid coating that embeds bacterial spores into a polymer layer, enabling the material to sense and respond to damage for […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mesoscale Polymer Modeling
A new paper by former MMD lab postdoc Rob Wagner and Prof Meredith Silberstein is now out in JMPS. This paper, “A foundational framework for the mesoscale modeling of dynamic elastomers and gels,” presents a mesoscale modeling approach for capturing the large deformation mechanics of elastomer and gel networks with dynamic bonds. This method greatly […]
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.”
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 […]
Mechanics for Material Design 