Excited to share that my penultimate work from my PhD is published in @PNASNews today. We took inspiration from layers in aorta and made fiber composites that are tough and stiff at the same time, reaching new property space. https://t.co/NZil8ztScl
Toughness and stretchability seem to be difficult to achieve together. With this new material in a series of tough soft composites, high toughness 200 kJ/m2 and stretchability of 6 can be simultaneously achieved. Check out our latest paper in @softmatter
https://t.co/ecc6A2FIbO
Terrific article on the innovative work by MEAM Assistant Professor Jordan Raney and graduate students in his lab.
Inspired by the Human Heart, Penn Engineers Design a Soft Material that is Tear Resistant
https://t.co/ViwKFCmfJT
Inspired by the human heart, Penn Engineers have designed a soft material that is tear resistant. By using a 3D printer with a rotating nozzle, the researchers were able to precisely control the alignment of glass fibers embedded within stretchy silicone.https://t.co/U5d3KzSxNl
@HaiDong_GaTech @PNASNews Yes they are hyper elastic. In our previous JMPS paper, we used HGO model to characterize uniaxial behavior of the uni directionally aligned composites.
Excited to share that my penultimate work from my PhD is published in @PNASNews today. We took inspiration from layers in aorta and made fiber composites that are tough and stiff at the same time, reaching new property space. https://t.co/NZil8ztScl
But this is not possible without pioneering work of elastic dissipator @zhigangsuo , utilizing elastic contrast to create tough composites. https://t.co/E4MgMChPuK Here we create elastic contrast by controlling fiber orientation through 3D printing.
This was a natural extension of our previous work where we aimed to understand tensile properties of glass fiber reinforced PDMS composites. https://t.co/n1Q744XT7X
My experiences in Dr. Ting Lu's lab documented in the letter attached.
It's not about him. I've cared about him enough during those 18 months of my life. It's about the students.
@UofIllinois@geo_uiuc@TheDailyIllini@uofigrainger@Nature
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How to design/synthesize polymers/hydrogels/architected materials with higher toughness? --> This Sunday's EASF webinar --> also other advantageous material properties including higher strength & fatigue resistance, lower hysteresis & friction, etc. Please help RT!