Assistant professor @Northeastern Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Alumus @Harvard & @PKU1898. I have shifted to LinkedIn and am no longer active here.
USNC-TAM 2026 will be held on June 21–25, 2026 in Pasadena, California. Shaoting @lin_shaoting , Ruobing @RuobingB, Berkin and I are organizing a mini-symposium, Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials. Please submit an abstract by Jan 15, 2026.
https://t.co/73ORg7TjQy
Daniel Dennett on criticism—
You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
Thank you @Pavan_KumarGV.
Our review paper is online!😀
https://t.co/UhVyfZiDvp
This review focuses on the thermodynamic framework for crack growth in polymer networks, experimental measurements of crack resistance, and how molecular design enable tough, durable soft materials.
Many thanks to @zhigangsuo
Feel proud to share our recent work on defect-engineered elastocaloric polymers published in Advanced Science (https://t.co/qMN5XRnVFK), in collaboration with @RuobingB at NEU and Prof. Svetlana Boriskina @ MIT.
In 1994, I went for my first sabbatical, at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, in Stuttgart, Germany. My host, Manfred Rühle, let me alone. In the Institute Library, I discovered Gibbs’s paper on phases in a pure substance.
What a revelation!
https://t.co/qnf62DT7No
Join us for our upcoming University-Industry Workshop “High-Throughput Soft Material Development” on May 30th. We expect to have ~ 50 participants from more than 10 Universities and Industrials. You may also attend the event via zoom ID: 670 705 8733
Adding to the impressive list of honors he has accumulated over the course of his professional career, Gregory Abowd — dean of @NortheasternCOE — has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Read more: https://t.co/02EDdmHM6g
SoR is excited to announce that Safa Jamali is the Society of Rheology 2025 Metzner awardee for contributions to the understanding of #suspensions, attractive #colloids, and #machine_learning techniques in rheology. We will celebrate Safa at our annual meeting this October!
Calling on senior PhD students and postdocs to join the 2nd Future Faculty Symposium at the 2025 SES Annual Technical Meeting. Open to everyone. Apply for travel support today! @nanshulu@SocEngScience
We believe bioadhesive for long term implantation not only needs to be strong but also mechanically match with the target tissue. For example, brain is soft and squishy while tendon is tough and resilient. Building such bioadhesive implants can enable safe and compatible integration with implantable devices to maintain the designed therapeutic efficacy. Thank
@NSF for supporting this research through the prestigious hashtag#CAREER program. Thank
@WPI for providing a rich and resourceful research platform! This research converges biomaterial design and synthesis and the mechanistic understanding. The lab continues to hire PhD students, please directly send me an email with CV if interested.
Zumrat Usmanova, PhD'27, mechanical engineering, advised by MIE assistant professor Ruobing Bai, was recognized with the highly competitive Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award from The Adhesion Society.
https://t.co/HQllCI5Ete
#nucoe#engineering#nuexperience
The 2025 Winston Chen Lecture at Harvard University
Force-triggered growth of double network hydrogels
Jian Ping Gong
Hokkaido University
4 April 2025, Friday
11:00 am Boston
Pierce Hall 301
The talk is open to all.
Zoom link: https://t.co/Ud7518vjqB
Please kindly repost.
Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) is extremely excited to announce the appointment of Professor Xuanhe Zhao (@ProfZhaoMIT) of MIT as co-Editor-in-Chief of EML. Professor Zhao is a world renowned expert in mechanics of materials and soft robotics.
Thank you @EmlWebinar for featuring our recent effort. I owe a great lot to @NSF, the mechanics community, mentors, colleagues, @NortheasternCOE, students, and family. We are committed to serving the community, society, and advancing the fundamental science.
Congratulations to the 2022 EML YIA Awardee and EML Early Career Advisory Board member, Prof. Ruobing Bai (@RuobingB) of Northeastern University, US, has received the #NSF_Career_Award.
https://t.co/9tPqG5aRzo
Happy to present our latest paper: Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots
https://t.co/QaT4hSIdei
My collaborator @lin_shaoting and I are grateful to NSF and our Program Directors at the MoMS program for their continuous support for fundamental science. I want to send my highest respect and best wishes to all our unsung heroes at @NSF during this special time.
MIE Assistant Professor Ruobing Bai, in collaboration with @michiganstateu, is leading a $705,664 @NSF grant for the "Mechanics of End-Linked Polymer Networks With Strain-Induced Crystallization Regulated by Topological Defects."
https://t.co/uIrL1oKsSC
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