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