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JIE YIN 

Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics 
Columbia University
622A S.W.Mudd Building, 500 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027 
 Email:  jy2274@columbia.edu

         I am currently a Ph.D candidate in Prof. Xi Chen's group at Columbia University from September 2007. Prior to Columbia, I got my Master's degree in Engineering Mechanics from Tsinghua University in January 2007. My research interests are on mechanical self-assembly, mechanics of growth and morphology, and mechanobiology. Our researches focus on the application of solid mechanics to the understanding of intriguing patterns and morphologies observed in nature and engineering. We employ theoretical, experimental and numerical methods (mainly Finite Element Method) to investigate the governing mechanisms of these problems. The main topics we are studying are the following:
  • Nanomechanics: Controllable self-assembled buckling patterns of thin films on curved compliant substrate
  • Biomechanics: Wrinkling of skins; Equilibrium and stability theory of lipid bilayer biomembranes with or without holes

If you have interest, you are welcome to visit our Research for details.

                                         
                             Fruits morphology and mechanical buckling           self-assembled fabrication of microgear        wrinkling of fingertips immersed in water

My Recent News

  • Jie Yin wins 2009-2010 AAM Founder's Prize See http://www.aamech.org/prize.html. The winning essay is "Progress through Mechanics: Mechanics vs. Morphogenesis"
    Posted Nov 4, 2009 10:49 AM by Jie Yin
  • New Scientist "Mismatched materials produce self-assembling gears"
    Posted Aug 9, 2009 4:28 PM by Jie Yin
  • Hightlights in Chemical Technology from RSC Publishing "Buckling down to make microgears"
    Posted Aug 9, 2009 4:28 PM by Jie Yin
  • Buckling and fruits morphology The paper "Anisotropic buckling patterns and their implications in nature" is published in JMPS.
    Posted Aug 9, 2009 4:41 PM by Jie Yin
  • Self-assembly fabrication of gears The paper "Mechanical self-assembly fabrication of gears" is published in Soft Matter. 
    Posted Aug 9, 2009 4:30 PM by Jie Yin
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