Ruobing Bai

Assistant professor @Northeastern Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Alumus @Harvard & @PKU1898. I have shifted to LinkedIn and am no longer active here.

[Ruobing Bai @RuobingB]

We are organizing the mini-symposium 403 - Mechanics and Physics of Soft Materials in USNC-TAM 2026. Please submit!

[Lihua Jin @lihuajin2014]

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

[Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo]

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.

[Zheqi Chen @ZheqiChen]

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

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

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.

[Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo]

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

[Ruobing Bai @RuobingB]

@ghpaulino @Princeton @EPrinceton @ASMEdotorg @ASCETweets @SocEngScience Huge congratulations @ghpaulino !

[Shaoting Lin @lin_shaoting]

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

[Northeastern Global News @NUGlobalNews]

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

[The Society of Rheology @SoRheology]

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!

[NGN Research @ResearchAtNU]

To better protect the screens on folding smartphones, this @Northeastern professor is reinventing tape.

Read more: https://t.co/kE9iYJ7MrR

[Kejie Zhao @KejieZhao]

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

[Jiawei Yang @DrJiaweiYang]

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.

[Ruobing Bai @RuobingB]

Congratulations to @zumrat_usmanova again! 🎉 She is studying fracture mechanics of architected materials and adhesives. What a beautiful topic!

[Northeastern COE @NortheasternCOE]

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

[Zhigang Suo @zhigangsuo]

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.

[EML Webinar @EmlWebinar]

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.

[Ruobing Bai @RuobingB]

Indeed! A great get-together.

[Lihua Jin @lihuajin2014]

Had a wonderful APS March meeting @APSphysics with dear colleagues, students and friends @ProfZhaoMIT @RuobingB @ShengqiangCai

[Ruobing Bai @RuobingB]

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.

[EML Webinar @EmlWebinar]

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

[Xuanhe Zhao @ProfZhaoMIT]

I will give an invited talk on "Extremely tough networks: from polymers to metamaterials" @APSphysics conference tomorrow, Mar 20.

[Jeffrey Lipton @JeffreyILipton]

Happy to present our latest paper: Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots
https://t.co/QaT4hSIdei

[Ruobing Bai @RuobingB]

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.

[Northeastern COE @NortheasternCOE]

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
#nucoe #engineering