Season 4
Episode 1 (January 16, 2022)
Ruobing Bai
Northeastern University
Mesoscale photomechanical coupling in photoactive materials
Episode 2 (January 23, 2022)
Ottman A. Tertuliano
University of Pennsylvania
How tissues fracture and repair across length scales?
Episode 3 (January 30, 2022)
Hai Dong
Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: 01/30/2022
A Unified-Fiber-Distribution Model (UFD) for Biological Tissues & A 2nd kind of Poisson effect
Christos E. Athanasiou
Brown University
Date: 01/30/2022
Facilitating & advancing mechanical characterization at small scales
Episode 4 (February 6, 2022)
Kolade Adebowale
Harvard University / Wyss Institute
Date: 02/06/2022
Enhanced substrate stress relaxation promotes filopodia-mediated cell migration
Hao Zhou
California Institute of Technology
Date: 02/06/2022
Accelerated computational micromechanics and its applications to polydomain liquid crystal elastomers
Episode 5 (February 13, 2022)
Luize Vasconcelos
University of Texas at Austin
Date: 02/13/2022
Chemo-mechanics of energy materials via operando nanoindentation
Matthew Grasinger
Air Force Research Laboratory
Date: 02/13/2022
Multiscale theory and Monte Carlo methods for electroactive polymers
Episode 6 (February 20, 2022)
Suhas Eswarappa Prameela
Johns Hopkins University
Date: 02/20/2022
Design of Novel Magnesium Alloys for Extreme Dynamic Environments
Suraj Ravindran
California Institute of Technology
Date: 02/20/2022
Strength of Materials under High Dynamic Pressures
Episode 7 (February 27, 2022)
Junsoo Kim
Harvard University
Date: 02/27/2022
Polymers in which entanglements outnumber crosslinks
Chengyang Mo
University of Pennsylvania
Date: 02/27/2022
Design for higher toughness in architected materials: geometric vs. material heterogeneity
Episode 8 (March 6, 2022)
Liu Burigede
University of Cambridge
Date: 03/06/2022
Multiscale modelling of structures: computing, data science, uncertainty and goal-oriented optimization
Episode 9 (March 13, 2022)
Kaichen Dong
UC Berkeley & LBNL
Date: 03/13/2022
Smart Radiative Cooling for All-Season Household Thermal Regulation
Zhengmao Lu
MIT
Date: 03/13/2022
Liquid-Gas Interfacial Transport: Fundamental Understanding and Implications for High Performance Passive Cooling
Episode 10 (March 20, 2022)
Zhenwei Ma
McGill University
Date: 03/20/2022
Bioinspired multifunctional tough gel sheathed surgical suture
Benjamin Freedman
Harvard
Date: 03/20/2022
Janus tough adhesives for tendon repair
Episode 11 (March 27, 2022)
Vignesh Kannan
ETH Zürich
Date: 03/27/2022
Defect kinetics and the dynamic response of materials: from high strain rate material strength towards multi-functionality
Episode 12 (April 03, 2022)
Jun Li
University of Michigan
Date: 04/03/2022
Phase separation as a way to improve microchannel condensers