A RA (MS level) position is available in the Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Texas-Denton in the fields of characterization of piezoelectric crystals, design and modeling of piezoelectric resonators and sensors. The position will start from spring, 2012. Candidates should have a Bachelor/Master's degree in engineering mechanics, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering with good academic standing and should have some experiences in the following:

Pressurized elastic capsules arise at scales ranging from the 10 m diameter pressure vessels used to store propane at oil refineries to the microscopic polymeric capsules that may be used in drug delivery. Nature also makes extensive use of pressurized elastic capsules: plant cells, bacteria and fungi have stiff walls, which are subject to an internal turgor pressure. Here, we present theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations of the indentation of a linearly elastic shell subject to a constant internal pressure.

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My current research interests includes robotics, mechanical vibration, robust control, modeling and control of conjugated polymer actuators for application in micro manipulation systems.

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Xiao Hua Liu and Jian Yu Huang, Energy Environ. Sci., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C1EE01918J

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This paper presents a stability analysis for fractal cracks. First, the Westergaard stress functions are proposed for semi-infinite and finite smooth cracks embedded in the stress fields associated with the corresponding self-affine fractal cracks. These new stress functions satisfy all the required boundary conditions and according to Wnuk and Yavari's embedded crack model they are used to derive the stress and displacement fields generated around a fractal crack.

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The following is our latest work just published on Energy & Environmental Science 

Multiscale molecular simulations of the nanoscale morphologies of P3HT: PCBM blends for bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cells

Cheng-Kuang Lee, Chun-Wei Pao, and Chih-Wei Chu

Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 

A postdoctoral research position is available in Dr.Katherine Yanhag Zhang’s lab in the Mechanical Engineering Department at BostonUniversity. We are looking for a self-motivated researcher to work on projectson multi-scale modeling of extracellular matrix (ECM) mechanics in vascularremodeling. The selected candidate will work on developing a predictivemechanobiology model of ECM mechanics to provide a clinical relevantrelationship between biomechanical integrity, biochemical compositionstability, and microstructure of the ECM.