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Number of registered users of iMechanica exceeds 20,000

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As of 11 May 2010, the number of registered users of iMechanica exceeded 20,000 , the total number of posts is 8191, the total number of comments is 14557.  The growth of iMechanica community remains steady since its launch.



Founded in September 2006, iMechanica aims

ASME IMECE2010 Symposium on Integrated Structures and Hybrid Materials

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The Integrated Structure Technical Committee in the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME invite you to submit an abstract to the Symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Structures and Hybrid Materials in Advanced Technologies at the 2010 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE).



Date: November 12-18, 2010

Venue: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.



On the cover of the NSF 2011 Congressional Budget Request

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The research on stretchable and twistable electronics by Yonggang Huang at Northwestern University and John A. Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign has been featured on the cover of the NSF Budget Request to the United States Congress for the fiscal year 2011.

Details available at http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2011/cover_caption.jsp

Ph.D. Research Positions Available

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We invite applications for Ph.D. student positions in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Maryland NanoCenter, University of Maryland, College Park. We look for talented and motivated applicants interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree in one of the following areas:



•    Mechanics of inorganic/organic hybrid nanostructures in flexible electronics

•    Mechanics of graphene-based nanostructures and nanomaterials



Requirements:



Post-doctoral Research Associate Position

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A post-doctoral research associate position is available immediately in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Maryland NanoCenter at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the area of multi-scale modeling (from atomistic, molecular, coarse-grained to continuum) of carbon-based nanostructured materials. Material properties of specific interest include mechanical and electrical properties, with special focus on deformation/failure mechanisms and bandgap engineering.