Events

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Spring 2025 Seminar Series, welcomes Emily Pentzer, Professor of Chemistry Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A & M, who will be giving a talk on "Leveraging Polymer Chemistry and Emulsions for Energy Applications." Abstract: The Pentzer group uses fundamental polymer chemistry and Pickering emulsions to […]

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Spring 2025 Seminar Series, welcomes Alan H. Epstein, R.C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Emeritus (MIT), who will give a talk entitled, "Batteries, Airliners, and Money." ABSTRACT: In recent years there has been much excitement over the possibility of battery energy storage replacing aircraft fuel, […]

Abstract: Bulk nanostructured materials offer tremendous opportunity for re-inventing materials, but also pose challenges both in terms of characterization, design, processing, and scaling. This talk will present recent work developing nanoengineered hierarchical advanced (aerospace-grade) composites with enhanced mechanical properties, with a focus on imparting multifunctionality. Such hybrid advanced composites employ aligned nanofibers (in most of […]

Thomas Lord Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science welcomes Carmel Majidi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, who will give the talk, "Soft-Matter Engineering for Robotics and Wearables." Abstract: Progress in soft lithography and soft materials integration has led to extraordinary new classes of soft-matter sensors, circuits, and transducers. These material technologies […]

Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Spring 2025 Seminar Series, welcomes Wilbur Lam, Professor at Emory University, who will give the talk, "Engineering microsystems to investigate the cellular mechanics of blood in health and disease." ABSTRACT: Hematologic processes are frequently comprised of cellular and biomolecular interactions that are biophysical in nature and […]