There are immediate openings for Ph.D. positions at SMIEL (Soft Matter Interfaces and Energy Laboratory; Website: www.smiel.umd.edu) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD) starting in Spring 2019. These positions are described below:
Duration: 1 year and subject to renewal for another year based on performance
Location: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland (UMD), College
Park, MD 20742
Supervisor: Dr. Siddhartha Das (UMD)
Project Description: The current technologies of 3D printing have huge potential in the domain
of printing flexible electronics and direct write printing on curved surfaces. In this project, we
want to explore such technologies to print electronics on curved surfaces. We would experiment
Checking upon the status of a submitted paper that has been with the journal for 2 weeks, we received the following response.
I will let you judge.....
Presentation of the establishment and the laboratory of reception: CEMEF, which stands for Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux, or Centre for Material Forming, is a leading research centre in the field of material forming. It was created in 1974 and is located in the Sophia Antipolis science park, near Nice in the south of France. It is a research laboratory of Mines ParisTech and has been associated with CNRS, the French National Science Foundation since 1979...
Bones not only support and protect the various organs of our body but provide structure and enable mobility making them the most important structural materials in the human body. While aging, diet and health are known to significantly affect the structural integrity and fracture resistance of bone, fatigue, a significantly more important loading condition, is rarely studied.
The required postdoctoral fellow will play a leading role in performing research leading to high-impact publications in the broad field of materials chemistry/crystal engineering. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to possess strong experimental research skills and ideally some computational materials modelling experience. The right candidate will spend most of their time in the laboratory where he/she will utilize their strong expertise in synthesis (organic or inorganic compounds) and materials chemistry/characterization in order to develop and validate a novel biosurfactant catalyzed mechanochemical remediation method for the green synthetic functionalization and conversion of persistent organic pollutants. In addition to performing research leading to high-impact publications in peer-reviewed materials chemistry journals, the postdoctoral fellow will work as part of a multidisciplinary team of molecular biologists, bioinformatics experts, chemists and chemical engineers in order to facilitate the deliverables of this exciting project.
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt passed away on 21 June 2018 in Moscow. He pioneered the cohesive-zone model of fracture, and made lasting contributions to the mechanics of solids and fluids. We are deeply sorry for the passing of a giant. Here is the text of his speech on receiving the Timoshenko Medal. Attached are his two papers on the cohesive-zone model.
The focus of this symposium is to discuss current research and key developments in theory, computational and experimental methods to study and predict the thermo-mechanical properties of materials in application-orientated environments. These environments may include, but are not limited to high temperature, cryogenic temperature, electrical and magnetic field, gas, radiation, chemical, pressure extremes, and humidity.
Advanced Materials and 3D Printing Lab (AM3DP) at Khalifa University, Masdar invites applications for Postdoctoral and Research Associate positions to work on a multi-disciplinary collaborative project. Successful candidate(s) will work at AM3DP lab and will be based in the Mechanical Engineering department at Masdar. These positions warrant regular communication with the international collaborative team: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School.
