Tag Archive | research
Welcome to Zoë Masters
Welcome to Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate Zoë Masters – the newest addition to the MMD lab (officially joined in December)! Zoë will be focusing on experimental mechanics for both living and synthetic materials.
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.
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 […]
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.
Congratulations Jinyue!
Congratulations to Jinyue Dai for passing her Masters exam last week. Jinyue’s thesis titled “Understanding Ion Transport Mechanism in Ionic Devices from a Molecular Level,” used molecular dynamics simulations to gain deeper understanding of both ionic materials and ionic devices. Jinyue will be headed to Northwestern soon to complete her PhD. Good luck!
ELMI student symposium
Bex Pendrak, Ellen van Wijngaarden, Si Chen, and Prof Silberstein all participated in the first annual ELMI student research symposium last week. See below for proof of pizza.
ELMI website updated!
The Engineered Living Materials Institute website is now live. Please check out our new institute home: elmi.cornell.edu.
Silberstein lab goes to IMECE
Mechanical engineering PhD students Max Tepermeister and Zhongtong Wang, and MS student Jinyue Dai all presented at ASME’s International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Columbus, Ohio last week.
Publication on ionically crosslinked elastomers is out in Soft Matter
Incorporation of reversible crosslinks into polymers is an effective approach for tailoring their mechanical properties and to realizing behavior like self-healing, shape memory, and pH sensitivity. Among various reversible crosslink types, ionic bonds are particularly interesting because of their biocompatibility, saloplasticity, and relevance for energy conversion technologies. Understanding the structure-function relationship of such polymers is […]
Mechanics for Material Design 