Author: Vicky Nguyen

Graduation 2025

One of the happiest days of the year.  Graduations and the Hooding of new Doctors of Philosophy.  Congratulations Beijun Shen. I am incredibly proud at  what you’ve accomplished. Congratulations Seda Aslan! It was a pleasure working with you and Axel the past couple of years.

ARVO 2025

Congratulations to Patricia and Kelly for their great presentations at ARVO.  This is Patricia’s first ARVO, and she presented work done her first year at JHU!  

Congratulations Dr. Beijun Shen

  Viscoelastic Behavior and Energy Absorption of Main-chain Liquid Crystal Elastomers-Based Architected Materials Beijun Shen Energy absorption is essential in designing materials and structures for impact mitigation, vibration isolation, and energydissipation. Architected materials leveraging geometric instabilities, such as snap-through buckling, are effective at reversibly trapping energy but often lack strain rate sensitivity. Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), […]