Area of research
Mechanical Engineering · Biomedical Engineering
Research interest
Research interests include Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity, and Photonic Crystals and Applications.
Flexible pyroelectric energy harvesters from nanocomposites of liquid crystal elastomers/lead zirconate titanate nanoparticles
PKM2 crotonylation reprograms glycolysis in VSMCs, contributing to phenotypic switching
Encoding Enantiomeric Molecular Chiralities on Graphene Basal Planes
Encoding Enantiomeric Molecular Chiralities on Graphene Basal Planes
Thickness-independent capacitance of vertically aligned liquid-crystalline MXenes
Better Actuation Through Chemistry: Using Surface Coatings to Create Uniform Director Fields in Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Directing the Deformation Paths of Soft Metamaterials with Prescribed Asymmetric Units
Static and dynamic elastic properties of fractal-cut materials
Fabrication of All‐Water‐Based Self‐Repairing Superhydrophobic Coatings Based on UV‐Responsive Microcapsules
Engineering the shape and structure of materials by fractal cut
Switching periodic membranes via pattern transformation and shape memory effect
Collaborative Research: GCR: Rooted in Nature: Bioinspired Design of Sustainable Seeding Methods to Improve Forest Regeneration
Causal Inference with Irregularly Spaced Observation Times
Design, synthesis, and assembly of composite liquid crystal elastomer fibers
FMRG: Threading High-Performance, Self-Morphing Building Blocks Across Scales Toward a Sustainable Future
Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Convergence of Scalable and Sustainable Digital Fabrication of Smart Textiles
Theory and Methods for Causal Inference in Chronic Diseases
EAGER/Collaborative Research: Environmentally Responsive, Water Harvesting and Self-Cooling Building Envelopes
INSPIRE Track 2: Discovery and Development of Optimized Photonic Systems for High Volume, Low Surface Area Solar Energy Harvesting: Learning from Giant Clams
Programmable pattern transformation of reconfigurable polymer membranes
Collaborative Research: Efficient Rare Cell Capturing in Microfluidic Devices via Multiscale Surface Design
GOALI: A Multiscale Approach on Interfacial and Structural Interlocking Between Polymer Grafted Shape Memory Pillars
EFRI-SEED: Energy Minimization via Multi-Scaler Architectures From Cell Contractility to Sensing Materials to Adaptive Building Skins
From a Single Micropatterned Elastic Membrane to a Library of Complex Patterns of Nanostructures: an Efficient Nanomanufacturing Route via Harnessing of Elastic Instability
Travel Support for Students, Post-Docs, and Young Faculty to Attend the Symposium on Synthesis of Bio-Inspired Hierarchical Soft and Hybrid Materials, April 2009, San Francisco, CA
Travel Support for Students, Post-Docs, and Young Faculty to Attend the Symposium on ?(Bio)Polymer-Directed Mineralization? at ACS meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-27, 2007
CAREER: Selective Grafting of Responsive Polymer Brushes on Topographically Structured Surfaces: A New Route for Surface and Interface Manipulation
Bio-inspired, Multifuctional Microlens Arrays: Novel Synthesis and Dynamic Tuning