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Professor and Chair @MSEatPenn + Professor in CBE & ESE @PennEngineers . Member of Technical Staff @BellLabs . Doctoral alumna @Cornell .
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Looking for a postdoc with background in materials science, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering, experienced in coatings and moisture absorption/water harvesting, starting in September.
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2 postdoc openings: 1) Photonic biosensing. PhD in optical engineering and gas sensing are desired. 2) 3D printing of biomass composites. Background in cement and biomass formulation, and CO2 capturing is desired.
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Two Postdoctoral openings
1) synthesis, assembly, and/or fabrication of liquid crystal elastomers, in particular, using microfluidic devices or 3D printing
2) coatings for moisture absorption and removal
The position is expected to start asap.
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so happy to join this excellent group of fellows. will continue my mission to promote chemistry and polymeric materials to the society.
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Honored to have this opportunity to follow Karen Winey’s footsteps as the next Penn MSE chair
@PennEngineers
@PennMatSci
@vijay_r_kumar
@Soft_Living_Mat
@fenglia_seas
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What an incredible honor to be recognized by AAAS! Thank you 🙏 and the honor goes to the Yang lab
@PennEngineers
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Postdoc opening in 3D printing, starting in Oct/Nov. The candidate should have a PhD in material sci., civil, environmental or mech. eng. Experience in mineralization, biomass synthesis, and bacterial/algae growth is a plus. Pls send CV, letter of interest, 2 selected papers.
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What can be better to end the year with an inventor cube of 4 granted patents and inventor of the year honor from
@PennPCI
thanks to our collaborators and
@Yanglab_upenn
members
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Glad to see Nature highlights our latest paper in PNAS, on a strong and reversible wound dressing film that can be activated within 2 min.
@MSEatPenn
@Nature
@PennEngineers
@PM_Innovation
@ChildrensPhila
@LehighU
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have you seen hydrogel/salt hybrid films that can absorb moisture and self-releasing water without any external energy? see our latest paper, , by Sohee Nah, Yunchan Lee,
@kunhaoyu
@YindingChi
@Baohong_Chen
@KunyuWang_Chem
,
@YangLab_UPenn
,
@MSEatPenn
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The beauty of Kirigami, simple, scalable and material independent. We demonstrated a meter scale fog harvester with the help of vortices formed on pyramidal centimeter scale units
@WeitzmanSchool
@PennEngineers
@MSEatPenn
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Thank you!
Professor Shu Yang will succeed Professor Karen Winey as Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UPenn, on July 1, 2021. Congrats! Shu.
@SYang_UPenn
@PennMatSci
@PennEngineers
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Glad to receive this NSF Future eco-Manufacturing grant to create highly efficient structures and components that are lightweight, yet ultrastrong, self-supportive, adaptive and energy efficient.
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Our latest paper using Kirigami strategy for breast reconstruction
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Thanks for featuring us.
@AdvSciNews
We show it can be used as dough to knead conductive fillers or dyes w/o any chemical reaction or solvent involved.
@PennEngineers
This hydrogel can be stretched to over 300 times its original length 😲
When it does eventually break, it can self-heal in a matter of seconds
@ShuYangPenn
Check it out:
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It's a great honor to be on this list of Langmuir Lectureship, and offer my 2 cents on future research interests,
@CollChem
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Our paper on assessment of commercial Janus fabrics as facemask materials is finally out.
@MSEatPenn
@PennEngineers
@acspmse
@POLY_ACS
@ACS_AMI
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Our latest collaborative paper, scorpion leg inspired omnidirectional hypersensitive, flexible strain sensors through geometric designs.
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I am so grateful and humble to receive this award. Our students' curiosity and creativity always inspire me to be a better teacher and a researcher.
Congratulations to
@MSEatPenn
@ShuYangPenn
on receiving the 2024 Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award during the 2024 Annual Awards Recognition Ceremony by the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Check out our Open Faculty Positions in Quantum Materials and Structural Materials at Penn/MSE. Application will end by Dec 1.
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Artificial Chromatophores Enable Surfaces with Squid-like Active Camouflage - Penn Engineering
@PennEngineers
@MSEatPenn
@Soft_Living_Mat
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I look forward to working with
@vijay_r_kumar
and
@OsujiChinedum
,
@kevin_t_turner
,
@raviradhak
,
@pappasg69
,
@zgives
,
@boonthauloo
to engage a diverse and innovative group of material scientists and engineers at
@PennEngineers
and beyond.
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what a blast to have
@Joseph_DeSimone
here, hearing his story of how to take science to technology. It was a full house and we are lucky to have Joe.
Quite the seminar. A packed house for a lecture which didn't disappoint.
@MSEatPenn
thanks
@ShuYangPenn
Dr. David Pope, and Dr. Joseph DeSimone
@StanfordEng
for another wonderful David P. Pope Distinguished Lecture.
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Our first paper at gigahertz🙂
.
@ShuYangPenn
@JiaqiLiu_UPenn
@YangLab_UPenn
et al. study the elastic anisotropy of
#LiquidCrystals
#Elastomers
using Brillouin light spectroscopy at gigahertz frequencies
#GettingApplied
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It was so nice to meet old friends together
Dinner with our seminar speaker
@ShuYangPenn
. Colleagues: Joost Vlassak, Katia Bertoldi,
@JenniferALewis1
.
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It’s still shocking that we won the
@PennHealthTech
pitch demo prize! Thank you,
@alex
Tucker,
@KEReuther
@courtney
houtsma,
@glorydurham
,
@india
watson, and
@BrianLitt2
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Our latest work: Solvent‐Assisted 4D Programming and Reprogramming of Liquid Crystalline Organo‐gels
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Paula Hammond, an incredible researcher and an incredible person. We are so lucky to have you, The Franklin Institute Awardee in Chemistry, to give a full-house seminar at
@MSEatPenn
. thank you.
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check out our latest review paper, "Exploiting Molecular Orders at the Interface of Microdroplets for Intelligent Materials".
@mingzhu_liu
.
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Contact me if you are interested in 3D printing of artificial coral reef!
Thanks to the generosity of Roy Vagelos, a postdoc fellowship will support collaborative sustainability and conservation science research at
@Penn
and
@nature_org
. Potential Penn mentors
@ShuYangPenn
,
@deep29jariwala
,
@alainfplante
,
@Sam_A_McBride
.
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Here is the comment on our latest review, Tuning the functionality of liquid crystal elastomer composites
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Faculty search
@MSEatPenn
@PennEngineers
is open
We welcome diverse candidates in the materials-related research areas, especially those with expertise in Quantum Materials and Materials for Health. The deadline is Dec. 1.
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Check out a series of liquid crystal related papers in our lab. 1) Self-Folding Liquid Crystal Network Filaments Patterned with Vertically Aligned Mesogens,
@ACS_AMI
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Please send your CV, a letter of interest, 2 selected papers, and 2-3 recommendation letters
Two Postdoctoral openings
1) synthesis, assembly, and/or fabrication of liquid crystal elastomers, in particular, using microfluidic devices or 3D printing
2) coatings for moisture absorption and removal
The position is expected to start asap.
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@zhigangsuo
thank you for including me. You are always so inclusive and inspiring to bring people together. I am very grateful for knowing you and interacting with you.
Wednesday program
Time: 9:30 am
Room: Bemidji
Gang Chen will give the opening lecture, followed by
John Rogers
Shu Yang
@ShuYangPenn
Vicky Nguyen
@NguyenLabJHU
Shiqing Wang
@ShiQingWang4
Costantino Creton
@CretonCost
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so proud to be part of the team.
@lining_yao
A group of researchers, including
@ShuYangPenn
from Penn Engineering, created a biodegradable seed carrier recently named a World Changing Idea by
@FastCompany
.
Read more:
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Check out a series of liquid crystal related papers in our lab. 2) 3D-Printed Photoresponsive Liquid Crystal Elastomer Composites for Free-Form Actuation, ,
@AFM_LiU
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Seeking a highly-driven Postdoctoral candidate who has background in photonic crystal device design and fabrication for applications to biosensing. Background in gas or bacteria sensing in oral care is a plus.
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Can soft robot self-escape simple maze w/o external control? Yes via physical intelligence! Check our latest work
@PNASNews
with
@ShuYangPenn
on rotini-like liquid crystal elastomer ribbon-based autonomous intelligent soft robot
@NCStateEngr
@PennEngineers
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It couldn’t be better to have a sunny day and meet new and old friends.🙂
A beautiful sunny day at Illinois only made better by
@ShuYangPenn
‘s visit to
@IllinoisMatSE
to share her work on liquid crystal elastomers.
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check out our "Ultrafast, Gripping Soft Robots" technology featured in Penn Y-prize competition, . The Y-Prize Kickoff will be held
Monday, September 18, 2023 | 6:30–8:30 p.m. For more information:
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glad to contribute to the “Women in Materials Science” Virtual Issue published on Advanced Materials
@AdvSciNews
@PennMatSci
@JasonCJolly
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I was very fortunate to have
@Lishuai_Jin
with us in the last 2 years.
Check out our new paper in
@ScienceAdvances
for shape-morphing structures with high mechanical performance. We proposed a universal algorithm to morph flat composite plies toward prescribed 3D curved surfaces with optimal layup architectures. My first work with Prof.
@ShuYangPenn
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Glad to see our work on rGO composite fiber actuators is featured by Materials Today
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Please stop by the poster presentation at 2-6 pm on Tuesday. I have 3 excellent postdocs,
@kunhaoyu
@YindingChi
@Baohong_Chen
who will be there to present.
Join the Future Faculty Symposium at the 2023 SES Annual Technical Meeting! More info & a full program are on the conference website:
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Ultradurable Superhydrophobic Fabrics with Adaptive Wrinkled Skin, like the Earthworm, ,
@PennMatSci
,
@PennEngineers
@Soft_Living_Mat
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Looking forward to working with this incredible team led by Masoud Akbarzadeh on 3D printing of carbon storage concrete for buildings
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Join us if you want to find out how to apply Kirigami mechanisms for various applications.
December 19th 9 PM ET, please join our online event with
@PennEngineers
on Cut or No Cut--learn how kirigami structures can be changed into different 3D structures from the same 2D sheet
@ShuYangPenn
@boonthauloo
.
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Always a great talk by
@zhigangsuo
The certificate came in the mail last week, in a beautiful frame, signed by Dean
@vijay_r_kumar
. Thank colleagues
@PennEngineers
for this honor and for conversations.
@kevin_t_turner
@ShuYangPenn
@ShenoyLab
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Really proud of your achievement. And Tony has just published this paper on active textile from wet-spun liquid crystal elastomers,
@MSEatPenn
thanks 2024 Belton Award winners, MSE PhD students, Katie Sun and Antonio Martinez for their wonderful presentations given during today's seminar.
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Such a powerful lineup of speakers. Thanks for having me.
🚨🗓️Advertising our Physics of Morphing Matter
@Princeton
(with
@cemilyd
@ghpaulino
and A. Kosmrlj) We'll cover a bunch of topics that involve shape changes 🐝 🤖 💻 🦑🧪✂️ (lineup in the poster). Registration is free but required.
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Big
@Penn
initiatives with $750M investment in all three
@pennengineers
strategic thrusts: Engineering Health, Data Science, Energy Science and Technology
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warm congrats to Dave Weitz, Mary Boyce and Paula Hammond
Introducing the 2024 Franklin Institute Awards Laureates!
The Franklin Institute takes great pride in honoring these exceptional individuals and celebrating the 200th anniversary of the awards program on April 15-19, 2024. For further information, visit:
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You are welcome to join us!
December 19th 9 PM ET, please join our online event with
@PennEngineers
on Cut or No Cut--learn how kirigami structures can be changed into different 3D structures from the same 2D sheet
@ShuYangPenn
@boonthauloo
.
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What else can be more fun to roll up the sleeves and make ice creams that everyone enjoys👏👏👏
Yes, it's officially fall, but it's still warm enough to make us crave ice cream in the afternoon. Stop by the LRSM steps today at 3:00pm for our annual Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Social, hosted by our undergrads!
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Look forward to having you!
As
@MSEatPenn
welcomes everyone to the start of the fall semester, we'd like to share our 2023 MSE Fall Seminar series with you.
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Can’t agree more. Also conference allows you to see and appreciate fellow colleague’s work in details.
Returning from a fantastic
@adhesion_the
meeting. Coincidentally with a fellow
@PennEngineers
department chair
@ShuYangPenn
Great to work with colleagues that are great researchers and leaders.
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fascinating, how animals deal with extreme heat. Can we produce scalable materials as building skins?
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working at the scale - 3D printing of carbon reduction concrete, thanks to the generous donation from
@National
Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA). It will keep
@kunhaoyu
and
@masoud
akakbarzadeh's team
@WeitzmanSchool
busy for a while.
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check out this latest mini review on filtration materials
▶️ Biopolymer-Based Filtration Materials
👥 Christopher R. Gough, Kayla Callaway, Everett Spencer, Kilian Leisy, Guoxiang Jiang, Shu Yang, and Xiao Hu*
@RowanCSM
@PennMatSci
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This is not the first time. Not the second time, but the third time that Peter received this award, nominated and selected by our students. It speaks the volumes. Congrats!
Congratulations to
@MSEatPenn
Professor Peter Davies on receiving the S. Reid Warren, Jr. award. The award is presented annually to a member of the Penn Engineering Faculty by the undergraduate student body and the Engineering Alumni Society.
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love all the energy that my group has put in and the curiosity from the kids (and the parents).
Another fantastic year at
#PhillyMaterialsDay
!🥰 Our demo showcased the use of Kirigami grippers to handle soft and slippery hydrogel beads
@ShuYangPenn
@YindingChi
@YaoyeHong
@MSEatPenn
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We look forward to your submission!
We are still hiring for multiple tenure-track Asst Prof positions, especially with expertise in electronic & optical materials for quantum information science and materials for health science & engineering. Applications close December 1!
@PennEngineers
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Please apply! We have the top tier program and the program director who cares about our students
Considering a Master's Degree in Materials Science?
The (MSE) Master’s program at Penn gives students an in-depth, hands-on approach centering on a variety of research areas.
Application Deadline -February 1, 2024
For more information about the program
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So glad that Ziyun will continue her journey with us for PhD degree. congrats 👏🎉🍾
@MSEatPenn
Ziyun Zhang lighting it up as only a Materials Science Grad could. Congrats on your graduation.
#PennEngineeringProud
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Glad to report this latest work.
@JasonCJolly
Metasurfaces are 2D materials that manipulate light through tiny structures etched onto their surfaces. Now, this can extend to 3D microstructures using a new photoengraving technique to modify one face at a time
@SYang_UPenn
@PennMatSci
Read more:
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Apply to Sustainability and Conservation Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, due Feb 16, 2024. Join us for the 3D printing of artificial coral for restoration and marine resilience project.
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Philly Materials demo online. I hope you enjoy
@JiaqiLiu_UPenn
and
@Arden_GaoYC
’s Kirigami and origami video,
@MSEatPenn
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Warm congrats class 2023
@MSEatPenn
@PennEngineers
Newly minted Penn Engineers, with Master's degrees streaming out of the Palestra!... and a good opportunity for a selfie with colleagues. Congratulations to the Master's class of 2023!
@PennEngineers
@zgives
@ShuYangPenn
@MSEatPenn
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We are excited to add our effort in precise network design, synthesis and engineering towards understanding in biomechanics for biomedical applications. Chris will look for fresh members next Fall.
We are excited to announce Christopher Madl will join the Department as an Assistant Professor, starting in the fall semester of 2022!
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Thanks for having me
2023 Plenary Speakers
Yonggang Huang, Northwestern University
Daniel Wagner, Weizmann Institute of Science
Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania
@ShuYangPenn
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Really inspiring!
Professor Glaucio Paulino
@ghpaulino
, of Princeton University, receives the 2023 Eringen Medal
@SocEngScience
.
He is giving the plenary lecture on all things origami—engineered and imagined.
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This is the team that I proudly advised. It’s their own idea to create vegetation concrete. Glad to see it comes to fruition.
We’re excited to introduce the
@MSEatPenn
Senior Design Team TerraStone: Devarsh Desai, Elizabeth Fisher, Da (Linda) Lin, and Qinxi (Celine) Liu.
The MSE Senior Design Project takes place, Friday, 4/26/2024, Glandt Forum, Singh Center for Nanotechnology, from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm.
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It’s an amazing video with love in art and science
If you like sci-fi style documentaries, please watch this full 6-min long film about E-seed, with audio on. Our team made it with love and hope.
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Thanks!
Our
@CEMB_STC
members and affiliates have such a breadth of interests--like
@SYang_UPenn
who has been awarded a Manufacturing PA Innovation grant to develop a 🐌-inspired medical adhesive! Congrats!
#snailglue
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Our search in Materials for Health will be in sync with the $100M commitment to the newly established Center for Precision Engineering for Health at Penn Engineering directed by
@ProfDAHammer
,
Faculty search
@MSEatPenn
@PennEngineers
is open
We welcome diverse candidates in the materials-related research areas, especially those with expertise in Quantum Materials and Materials for Health. The deadline is Dec. 1.
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It’s a great honor to kick off the seminar series!
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Another new project: wood drying, to be kick off next week.
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Honored to be part of the forum. great panel discussions led by
@vijay_r_kumar
and
@boonthauloo
, and very insightful views from
@robinren
and Goodwin Rao
Great set of talks by Professors
@boonthauloo
,
@DFMeaneyLab
,
@SYang_UPenn
, Jing Li and Jianbo Shi, and honored to moderate a panel with distinguished alumni
@robinren
and Goodwin Rao at the inaugural Penn China Technology Forum,
@PennEngineers
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Warm congrats to Prof. Yonggang Huang!
Congrats to Prof. Yonggang Huang for his induction to the ROYAL SOCIETY! He is signing the fellow’s book, same book that Newton signed in 1672 - Yonggang is in good company! Can you find Newton’s signature on the 2nd photo?
@NorthwesternEng
@SocEngScience
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Great work! It’s fun working on this project with Wei-Shao and Arjun😊 and let’s do more! And thanks to
@EKBrockmeier
and the team putting together a great movie and story👍🙏
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@Penn
is well represented at Liquid crystal GRC this week,
@MSEatPenn
,
@OsujiChinedum
,
@PennEngineers
@PennSAS
. And it’s great to see Penn alumni
@Sabetta_
@SerraLab_LC
,
@lisatran
, and
@DavidsonZoey
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Check it out and free access.
Temporary free access: Revisit a fantastic review from Shu Yang and colleagues (
@SYang_UPenn
) on responsive and foldable soft materials.
#RealTimeChem
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A great MSE showing at last night's
@PennEngineers
Undergraduate Award Ceremony! We are so proud of our student award winners.
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adding solvent in fabrication allows us to 1) create networks even initial precursors are very viscous; 2) introduce reprogrammability, 3) use digitial light processing (DLP) technique to 4D print liquid crystal elastomers at ease that are not previously possible.
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@zhigangsuo
Happy Birthday! We all benefit from your wisdom.
Today is the 60th birthday of my Ph.D. advisor,
@zhigangsuo
. Happy Birthday🎂 Thank you for showing us how to navigate the complexities of research with tenacity and integrity. Your wisdom only shines brighter with time. To all, please join our celebration symposium at
#SES2023
.
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Honored to help drafting this report.
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Can’t agree more! Design, building engineering and materials should work together to address the real life challenges
@MSEatPenn
would like to thank
@WeitzmanSchool
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Dorit Aviv, for her seminar, "Thermal Architecture," which everyone found stimulating. As one student remarked, "It was nice to see engineering solutions being applied in real life."
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please apply.
@MSEatPenn
is actively recruiting tenure-track assistant professors whose interests are aligned with the School of Engineering and Applied Science’s strategic plan.
Position: Structural Materials
For more information: …
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Thank you all for doing this,
@kunhaoyu
@YangLab_UPenn
@ziyunzhang
,
@_HannahClarkson
@aliciang
,
@soheenah
,
@tonymartinez
,
@YindingChi
Demo
#Origami
#kirigami
and
#Hydrogel
on Philly Materials Day.
Such a great event!
@PhillyMaterials
@ShuYangPenn
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Check out this simple and effective, DYI origami mask! Join us as a member to contribute and get the latest information. I am proud to be part of it!
A team of medical device developers came together to create a new respirator to address the shortage of PPE in hospitals. This design is based on Origami - it does not require any sewing or other special equipment - just scissors, a zip tie, and an elastic
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