Mechanics and physics of soft materials
Co-Chairs:
Shengqiang Cai, University of California San Diego
Shawn Chester, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Noy Cohen, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Stephan Rudykh, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Meredith Silberstein, Cornell University
Other Co-Organizers:
J. El-Awady, Johns Hopkins University
Yuhang Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lihua Jin, University of California Los Angeles
Sung Hoon Kang, Johns Hopkins University
Marisol Koslowski, Purdue University
Christian Linder, Stanford University
Oscar Lopez-Pamies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert M. McMeeking, University of California Santa Barbara
Qiming Wang, University of Southern California
Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Summary:
Soft materials is an increasingly active field of research driving science and technology into new exciting directions. Large deformations coupled with various multiphysics phenomena and instabilities at different length scales open an immensely rich research arena. This offers unique opportunities to develop multifunctional materials and devices with novel properties, through the targeted design of material composition and microstructural layout. Moreover, soft materials represent essential components in biological tissues, a topic of extreme interest for bio-medical applications.
This mini-symposium will address recent experimental, computational, theoretical and manufacturing advances in this direction. Topics of particular interest include:
- Electroactive and magnetoactive elastomers (EAP, DE, MRE, MAE, IPMC)
- Hydrogels and other soft wet materials
- Liquid crystal elastomers
- Shape-memory and light-sensitive polymers
- Instabilities in soft materials
- Fracture, and adhesion in soft materials
- Soft biological and bio-inspired materials
- Multiphysics phenomena in soft materials
- Wave propagation and dynamics of soft materials
- 3D/4D printing and fabrication of soft materials
- Soft Robotics or Machines
- Mechanical Metamaterials