Unexpected two-phase lithiation of amorphous Si
Two-phase electrochemical lithiation in amorphous silicon
Jiangwei Wang, Yu He, Feifei Fan, Xiao-Hua Liu, Shuman Xia, Yang Liu, Thomas Harris, Hong Li, Jian Yu Huang, Scott X. Mao, and Ting Zhu
Nano Letters, Publication Date (Web): January 16, 2013
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl304379k
In-situ TEM of two-phase lithiation of amorphous silicon nanospheres
Doctoral Engineering RA Position in Computational FEA and Rigid Body Modeling
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at
El Paso is seeking a highly motivated and experienced graduate student
as a paid research assistant (RA) in our new Ph.D. program in Biomedical
Engineering for the Fall of 2013 or sooner if key applicant is found.
Research will be conducted in the newly established musculoskeletal
biomechanics laboratory in our new Biomedical Engineering Building.
This
doctoral level RA will focus specifically on computational models of
Symposium on Li-ion batteries at the SES 50th annual meeting
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider to attend the symposium entitled "Lithium ion batteries - when chemistry meets mechanics" at the occasion of the Joint Society of Engineering Science (SES) 50th Annual Technical Meeting and ASME-AMD Annual Summer Meeting, July 28-31, 2013, at Brown University.
The description of the symposium is attached below.
PACAM XIII - Modeling and Characterization of Ductile Failure
Dear Colleagues,
The Thirteenth
Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XIII) will be held in
Houston, TX, USA. The conference dates are May 22-24th, 2013.
Phononics 2013
We cordially invite you to participate in Phononics 2013: The Second International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport and Optomechanics – to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from June 2–7, 2013. The conference covers the following themes:
(1) phononic crystals, (2) acoustic metamaterials, (3) wave propagation in periodic structures, (4) nanoscale phonon transport, and (5) optomechanics.
More information available at: www.phononics2013.org.
Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications
A Special Session on Multiphysics and multiscale modelling of composites for renewable energy applications is being organized within the 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart Structures and Materials (SMART 2013, June 24-26, Torino, Italy), http://www.mul2.polito.it/smart13. Organizers are M. Paggi, L. De Lorenzis and A. Piccolroaz.
Deadline to submit abstracts for PACAM XIII extended
Based on several requests, the deadline to submit abstracts for the Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics XIII has been extended to the 1st of February. This years PACAM will be held in Houston, TX--the first time PACAM is being held in North America! The conference will feature plenary talks by Professors Alan Needleman, K. Ravichandar and Roger Fosdick.
The link to the conference website is here: http://www.conferencetoolbox.org/PACAMXIII/
Living cells behave as fluid-filled sponges
Animal cells behave like fluid-filled sponges in response to being mechanically deformed according to new research published in Nature Materials.
Scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL have shown that animal cells behave according to the theory of ‘poroelasticity’ when mechanically stimulated in a way similar to that experienced in organs within the body. The results indicate that the rate of cell deformation in response to mechanical stress is limited by how quickly water can redistribute within the cell interior.
USNCCM 2013, Raleigh, USA: MS on Multiscale computational homogenization
You are welcome to submit abstracts to the MS 4.5 "Multiscale Computational homogenization for bridging scales in the mechanics and physics of complex materials", organized by P. Wriggers, K. Terada, V. Kouznetsova, M. Cho and myself at the 12th US National Congress on Computation Mechanics (USNCCM), July 22-25, 2013, in Raleigh, USA.
The deadline fo abstract submission is February 15, 2013.
The topics of the MS can be found here: