Tag Archive | undergraduates
Removing Toxic Metals from Contaminated Water with ELMs
Our latest paper in ACS Applied Polymer Materials demonstrates how biofilms formed by the non-pathogenic bacterium Rheinheimera sp. T2C2 can remove cobalt from water and enable potential metal recycling, highlighting new opportunities for engineered living materials in environmental remediation. A special congratulations to PJ Brunette, who is graduating this month with her BS in Materials […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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.
Congratulations Bex
Congratulations to soon to be MMD lab alum Bex Pendrak for achieving honorable mention for the highly competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program! Bex will be starting a PhD program in the fall.
Congratulations MMD lab graduates!
Congratulations to Tiffany Chui, Shreya Gowda, and Anabel Sattler! Tiffany received a bachelors in Materials Science and Shreya and Anabel received bachelors in Mechanical Engineering.
Mechanics for Material Design 