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Toughening Transparent Ceramics with Bio-inspired Architectures

Zhen Yin ^{(1, 2)}

¹ McGill University, Canada

² Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany

Acknowledgement: This journal club was posted on my last day in Montreal. Thanks Prof. Francois Barthelat and all the group memebers for the wonderful six years. A special thanks goes to Prof. Francois Barthelat for his advisory in these years that makes this journal club possible. 

The Biofilm Matrix - A Living Engineering Material

Chenxi Zhai, Haoyuan Shi, Tianjiao Li, Liming Zhao, Jingjie Yeo

J² Lab for Engineering Living Materials, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University

Introduction

Mechanics of High-capacity Rechargeable Batteries

Cole Fincher, Yuwei Zhang, Matt Pharr

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

1. Introduction

Dexin Zhao , Kelvin Xie 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.

Abstract

Journal Club for April 2020: Curvature-Affected Instabilities in Membranes and Surfaces

Fan Xu, Fudan University

Journal Club for March 2020: Molecular Simulation-Guided and Physics-Informed Multiscale Modeling of Polymer Viscoelasticity

Ying Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut

1.       Introduction

Journal Club for May 2019: Using Instabilities to Control Soft Robots Philipp Rothemund University of Colorado Boulder

Journal Club for April 2019: Self-Healing Soft Materials: from Theoretical Modeling to Additive Manufacturing

Qiming Wang

University of Southern California

1. Introduction

Fatigue of hydrogels

Ruobing Bai (1,2), Zhigang Suo (1)

(1) John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University

(2) Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Recent advances in liquid crystal elastomer

Zhijian Wang, Shengqiang Cai

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering Program

UCSD