F.Xu, W. Lu and Y. Zhu, ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (1), pp 672–678.

An interview by ACS Nano (Episode 42: January 2011),

http://pubs.acs.org/page/ancac3/audio/index.html

A few vacant positions for Scientists and Senior Scientists are available at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*Star, Singapore.

Responsibilities: Perform industry R&D projects, and work with industry partners to develop research programs.

Qualifications:  

Ph.D in Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Applied Physics.  

Symposium II :

Computational Science of Transport Phenomena in Materials: Methods and Applications

Chair

• Yong-Wei ZHANG, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Co-Chairs

Dear Colleagues,

The session organizers would like to invite researchers to contribute their work for a special session on “Impact Modeling of Composites” for the Sixth M.I.T.  Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics to be held in June 2011 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, McMAT-2011    (31 May ~ 2 June 2011, Chicago, IL)

Symposium 7: Low Dimensional Carbon NanoMaterials: Properties and Applications

Deadline for abstract submission: 30 Jan. 2011

5th International Symposium on Defect and Material Mechanics, Seville (Spain), from June 27 to July 1, 2011.

Scientific Committee: 

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring to your notice the mini-symposium on "Multi-scale modeling in contact mechanics" at the 11th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://usnccm.org/). The conference will be held at Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 25-29, 2011.

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring to your notice the mini-symposium on "Emerging computational methods for transient non-linear problems with multiple temporal scales" at the 11^th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (http://usnccm.org/). The conference will be held at Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 25-29, 2011.

We have carried out systematic experimental tests to evaluate the bonding strength and fracture toughness of adhesive joints. Our work has been published in Journal of Adhesion as one among the collection of papers honoring Prof. David Dillard for receiving the Adhesion Society Award for Excellence in Adhesion Science sponsored by 3M.

A dielectric elastomer is capable of largevoltage-induced deformation, particularly when the voltage is applied on theverge of snap-through instability.  Thispaper describes a model to show that the snap-through instability is markedlyaffected by both the extension limit of polymer chains and the polarizationsaturation of dipoles.  The model mayguide the search for high-performance dielectric elastomer transducers.

International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials 2011 2 (2), 59-67