Our paper on new design of Hybrid metamaterials combining pentamode lattices and phononic plates has been published in Applied Physics Letters
Year: 2018
Congratulations to Pavel Galich for defending his PhD thesis! Excellent job!
PhD committee: Dean Itzhak Frankel, Prof. Konstantin Volokh, Prof. Mikhail Rivkin Adviser: Prof. Stephan Rudykh
Welcome to Nitesh Arora!
We welcome Nitesh Arora who has joined our group as a PhD student.
Pattern Transformations in Soft Metamaterials for Tunable Wave Propagation
Our paper on Instability-Induced Pattern Transformation in Soft Metamaterial with Hexagonal Networks for Tunable Wave Propagation has been published in Scientific Reports
Soft Matter Highlights our Research
Our paper on Soft 3D-printed Auxetic Composites has been selected for Back Cover in Soft Mater.
New Paper: 3D-printed Soft Gripper for Handling Delicate Objects
Our paper on Strategies to Control Performance of 3D-Printed Soft Polymer Actuators has been accepted in Polymers
Congratulations to Vladimirsky Dimitry for defending his Master thesis!
Applied Physics Letters highlights our recent paper as Editor’s Pick
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5042077
Our paper on 3D printed reconfigurable auxetic materials accepted for publication in Soft Matter!
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/SM/C8SM00874D#!divAbstract
Our group research focuses on Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials.
Our current projects include active materials, instabilities, 3D-printing; bioinspired materials; acoustic metamaterials and wave propagation in soft matter, in general; new actuation mechanisms for soft robotics, failure mechanisms in composite materials. Please read our research page for …