2D materials

Professors Kenneth Liechti and Rui Huang in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas Austin have an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow to engage in a funded project in the area of multilayered van der Waals materials. Although the project involves both experiments and modeling, the thrust of this position will be experimental. Accordingly, we seek a creative individual who has prior experience in conducting nanomechanical experiments with 2D materials.

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Two postdoc positions in computational science are available at UIUC in the research group of Prof. Harley T. Johnson in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Lab.  

Dear Colleagues

I would like to share with you our recent work published on Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

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Dear colleagues, I'd like to share our recent work on blister testing of multilayer 2D materials that gives a direct measurement of Young's modulus and bending rigidity of a multilayer (~10-70 layers). Materials involved include graphene, MoS2, and hBN.

You may access the pdf through Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116101 or Researchgate. 

Published in Extreme Mechanics Letters: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2019.100507. For more than half a century, physicists rejected the existence of two-dimensional (2D) materials since they theoretically underestimated the stability. However, the discovery of one-atom-thick graphene proved the inapplicability of this theory.

 Dear Colleagues, 

Please consider submitting your abstract to our mini-symposium on "Mechanics of deformable atomically-thin materials (Symposium 8.2)" at the 56th Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science (SES), Washington University in St. Louis, October 13-15, 2019.