In discussing with colleagues and giving lectures, it helps to keep certain basic facts in mind. Let's gather threads on such facts for polymers. I'll keep each fact basic, and each thread short.
I have tweeted several such threads.
Quite a few of mechnicians are active a Twitter. There we interact with one another, and with broad communities. Here are several mechanicians active on Twitter:
Markus Buehler, MIT
John Dolbow, Duke
Alain Goriely, Oxford
Grace Gu, Berkeley
Gareth McKinley, MIT
In this episode of Soft Robotics Podcast, the host Marwa Eldiwiny and I discussed our recent Science paper on fatigue-resistant hydrogel and elastomer. We talked about tanglemer, a polymer in which entanglements greatly outnumber crosslinks. We also talked about the background that motivated us, including fabrics, polymer metraix composites, ceramic matrix composites, metals.
The year 2021 marks the centennial of the publication of paper, The Phenomena of Rupture and Flow in Solids, by Griffith. To fracture or to flow, that is the question. The question has been asked and answered in so many ways, which are recounted and celebrated in this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/zhigangsuo/status/1421421505540333571
You can read tweets without a Twitter account. But if you wish to follow conversations, or start your own, you will need your own Twitter account.
Join us to create a web of mechanics and mechanicians on Twitter. Here are my reasons and how to get started.
I ask each member in my group to set up a Twitter account using his or her real name. Here are my reasons.
iMechanica and Twitter are two networks. A dual user is an interlink between the two networks.
I’m enormously pleased that the video of my iCanX Talk on 15 May 2020 is now placed on YouTube, as well as on https://talks.ican-x.com. Thank Alice ZHANG for creating this wonderland. In preparing the talk, I discovered a new equation: iCanX = ions can do everything. The last slide of the talk lists further readings and watchings, most of which the talk did not cover. The field is full of chaotic energy.
Please make a link in the comment section if you find other video lectures related to mechanics.
Daniel Suo sent me a graph of my academic tree, which he generated on the basis of the information on Mathematics Genealogy Project, using a code.
