In response to a NSF call for proposal on Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM), in June 2006, several of us submitted a proposal entitled "iMechanica: Leveraging Cyberinfrastructure to Evolve All Knowledge of Applied Mechanics"
Dr. Jun Lou and Dr. Junlan Wang are co-editing a special issue on Nanomechanics and Nanostructured Multifunctional Materials: Experiments, Theories, and Simulations for Journal of Nanomaterials, an open access journal. Papers on latest developments on all aspects of nanomechanics and nanostructured materials are welcome. Deadline for manuscript submission is September 01, 2007.
For more details, please check JNM website
Finite Difference Method (FDM) and the related techniques such as FVM, are often found put to great use in fluid mechanics. See any simulation showing not only streamlines but also vortex shedding, turbulent mixing, etc.
Apply for NSF fellowships to attend 1-week long workshop on cell mechanics, July 31-Aug 3, 2007.
Check out www.ccm.uiuc.edu
Sony announces a OLED display on plastic film.
This is apparently the world's first full color OLED/organic TFT on a flexible substrate. Sony managed to create a flexible display with a size of 2.5 inch featuring a resolution of 120×RGB×160 pixel.
Other specifications of the flexible OLED display include 100 cd/m2
brightness, 1,000:1 contrast ratio and 0.3mm thickness of the panel.
The Institute of High
Performance Computing (IHPC), a member of the Agency for Science,
Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, invites applications for
eight available positions for research scientists in the field of
theoretical and computational mechanics and materials science. These
positions are in conjunction with the A*STAR-sponsored Visiting
Investigatorship Program (VIP) led by Prof. Huajian Gao from Brown University who is the Principle Investigator.
Depolarization field and misfit strain are two important factors that may greatly influence the properties of ferroelectric thin films. The effect of depolarization field on polarization states of single-domain ferroelectric thin films with nonequally biaxial in-plane misfit strains are studied in the present work by numerically solving three coupled Euler-Lagrange equations, which are derived from the minimization of total free energy.
We have recently reported the label-free detection of HCV (Hepatitis C Virus) helicase by using a resonating microcantilever whose surface is functionalized by RNA aptamers as receptor molecules. This work was accepted for publication at Biosensors & Bioelectronics.
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We study the kinetics of phase transformations in solids using the peridynamic formulation of continuum mechanics. The peridynamic theory is a nonlocal formulation that does not involve spatial derivatives, and is a powerful tool to study defects such as cracks and interfaces.
