Zach successfully defenced his master thesis entitled:"Fish-Scales: The Next Structure in Soft Body Protection?", congrats to Zach!

April 13, 2018

Shankar was selected as the silver winner for the graduate student award at the Material Research Society (MRS) spring meeting 2018!

April 5, 2018

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Journal article "Armours for soft bodies: How far can bioinspiration take us?" by Zach and Franck published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.

March 29, 2018

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Journal article "Transient Response of Nonlinear Polymer Networks: a Kinetic Theory" by Franck published in Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

March 20, 2018

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Journal article "Localized enzymatic degradation of polymers: physics and scaling laws" by Shankar and Franck published in Physical Review Applied.

March 19, 2018

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Shankar was recently selected as a finalist for the graduate student award at the Material Research Society (MRS) spring meeting 2018!

Feb. 20, 2018

He will be presenting his research on programmable hydrogels for tissue regeneration on April 3 at the Material Research Society (MRS) spring meeting 2018 in Phoenix. There he will compete with other finalists for the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award !

Journal article "Remotely Triggered Locomotion of Hydrogel Mag-bots in Confined Spaces" by Tong, Millicent and Franck published in Scientific Reports.

Nov. 20, 2017

Prof. Franck Vernerey wins the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)!

Jan. 11, 2017

Prof. Franck Vernerey is the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest U.S. government honor awarded to promising scientists and researchers beginning their careers. He was nominated by the National Science Foundation and selected by the White House. He will receive the award from...

Journal article “Mechanics and stability of vesicles and droplets in confined spaces” by Edu and Franck published in PRE.

Dec. 4, 2016

Invited Talk by Dr. Swantje Bargmann from University of Wuppertal, Germany

Oct. 6, 2016

Dr. Swantje Bargmann is a professor from University of Wuppertal, Germany visiting us this week. She works on the computational modeling of materials behavior with focus of plasticity, damage and fracture in solids. She will give a talk on her research work at the Group Meeting on Oct 7, 2016...

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