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Tampere, Finland Geeking it out on LCEs with colleagues and friends, including Albert Shenning, Jerry Qi, Taylor Hebner.

 Coupled Theory and Computational Modeling of Active Hydrogels Active elastomeric hydrogels can undergo large deformation and shape change in response to a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biomolecular stimuli, such as temperature, pH, ionic strength, electric field, light, etc. In the past two decades, there has been a resurgence in the synthesis technique and […]

Lyon, France It was a rare treat to present at the European Solid Mechanics Conference in Lyon and running into Rui Xiao, original NguyenLab member.  He’s doing amazingly well at Zheliang University.

Albuquerque, NM Catching up with alumni has become a highlight of conferences. It was great to catch up with Seda Aslan and see her present on the Aorta simulation studies. I also saw Hai Dong’s and Arena Korneva’s students present for the first time.

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.

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!  

Sending Beijun off to her new postdoc position at Columbia.  Good luck Beijun!

  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), […]

Decorating Christmas ornaments, lasagnas, and lots of fun.

Great to catch up with Arina Korneva at SB3C. Arina is in her 2nd year as Assistant Prof at Virginia Tech.