Season 3, January-April, 2021
Episode 1 (January 10, 2021)
Wei Zhang
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
High temperature deformation, failure, and lifetime prediction for heat-resistant steel alloys and weldments
Yanfei Gao
University of Tennessee
Ductility Limit Prediction for Polycrystalline Alloys at Elevated Temperatures
Paolo Celli
Stony Brook University
Twisted ribbons and bulk metallic glass: an unusual combination for morphing structures
Teng Cui
University of Toronto
Intrinsic and interfacial fatigue of graphene
Episode 2 (January 17, 2021)
Mrityunjay Kothari
MIT
DYNAMICS OF PHASE SEPARATION WITH NONLINEAR ELASTIC EFFECTS
Shaoting Lin
MIT
Fracture of polymer networks with diverse topological defects
Yue Zheng
University of Southern California
Unusual mechanical deformation of nematic elastomers
Episode 3 (January 24, 2021)
Hedan Bai
Cornell University
Stretchable Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensor
Hamed Shahsavan
University of Waterloo
Light-fueled Liquid Crystal Gels for Bioinspired Underwater Soft Robots
Xudong Liang
Binghamton University
Programming impulsive deformation with mechanical metamaterials
Episode 4 (January 31, 2021)
Matthew Heinrich
Princeton University
Escher-inspired tissues: growth and fusion in epithelial monolayers
Yuxiao Zhou
Johns Hopkins University
3D full field strain mapping in bone-implant and bone-tooth constructs
Nicholas G. Fischer
University of Minnesota
Strategies to prevent infection of percutaneous devices
Episode 5 (February 7, 2021)
Diego Mateo
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Photo-thermal catalysis: Fundamentals and Applications
Rong Xu
Stanford Univeristy
Mechanical stability of LiNixMnyCozO2 (NMC) cathode investigated by an integrated experimental-modeling approach
Regina Garcia-Mendez
Cornell University
Correlating structural effects of ceramic solid electrolytes with cycling stability of Li metal for Solid-State batteries
Episode 6 (February 21, 2021)
Yunlan Zhang
University of Oxford
Multiaxial Behavior of Phase Transforming Cellular Materials
Huijuan Feng
Northumbria university
Origami-based Morphing Structures and Metamaterials
Episode 7 (February 28, 2021)
Abhinendra Singh
University of Chicago
Shear thickening in dense suspension: a master-curve and "roll" of friction
Manav Manav
California Institute of Technology
Molecular dynamics simulation study of the shock response of polyurea
Xingsheng Sun
California Institute of Technology
Diffusive Molecular Dynamics and Its Application to Hydrogen Diffusion in Palladium Nanoparticles
Episode 8 (March 7, 2021)
Qiong Zhang
MIT
Fluid-driven transport of spherical sediment particles: from discrete simulations to continuum modeling
Hongyi Xiao
University of Pennsylvania
Characterizing and modeling strain localization of disordered granular rafts with tunable ductility during tensile deformation
Siavash Monfared
California Institute of Technology
Effect of confinement on capillary phase transition in (dis)ordered porous media
Episode 9 (March 14, 2021)
Kun-Hao Yu
University of Southern California
Additive Manufacturing and Mechanics of Photosynthesis-assisted polymer remodeling
Lin Wang
Penn State University
Compact Bio-Inspired Nanoscale Textures Reduce Contact Time of Bouncing Droplets
Episode 10 (March 21, 2021)
Simon Bettscheider
Leibniz institute for new materials
Measuring the adhesive performance of bio-inspired micropatterned surfaces
Haocheng Quan
Leibniz institute for new materials
Materials design of dermal armors and hydration-induced actuation in plants
Mingchao Liu
University of Oxford
Spider-morphs: Designing 3D shapes from multiple tapered elasticæ
Episode 11 (March 28, 2021)
Ajay B Harish
UC Berkeley
Computational nanotribology to study non-exhaust emissions
Jiawei Yang
Boston Children's Hospital and MIT
Can creases form in metals?
Rana Faryad Ali
Simon Fraser University
Non-linear Optics at Nanoscale: Size-Controlled Synthesis of Second Harmonic Active Lithium Niobate Nanocrystals Through Solution-Phase Methods and Ostwald Ripening Process
Episode 12 (April 4, 2021)
Wei Li
MIT
Physics-guided neural network framework for multiphysics modeling of battery
Hongbo Zhao
MIT
Data-driven learning of battery physics
Steven Kench
Imperial College London
Dimensionality expansion: Generating 3D electrode microstructures from a 2D slice
Episode 13 (Apirl 11, 2021)
Xin Qian
MIT
Electrochemical Methods for Harvesting Low-Grade Heat
Xinpeng Zhang
University of Maryland, College Park