Whitaker chair professor @MIT; scientist, educator, entrepreneur; #softmaterials #mechanics #health #sustainability; co-founder @SanaHeal @Sonologi @Magnendo.
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"Scientists spend up to 40 percent of their time working on research grants rather than on research." theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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1/. In today's @ScienceMagazine, we report bioadhesive ultrasound (BAUS) for long-term continuous imaging of diverse organs --- An ultrasound sticker capable of continuous, on-the-go, high-quality imaging of most parts of the human body.
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Welcome back, Gang! Thank @mit and MIT colleagues. Thank all who have cared, helped, and advocated for academic freedom and racial justice. Thank Gang and your family. #WeAreAllGangChen #EndChinaInitiative
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Inventing soft things to solve hard problems. Thank @techreview for highlighting our works and their impacts on global health. Curiosity, collaboration, and causing impacts are at the core of @MIT Zhao Lab. Credit belongs to lab members and collaborators.
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3D printing of a microelectrode array with conducting polymers
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Simple, fast, high-precision, multimaterial 3DP. Please try!
#3Dprinting
#conductingpolymers
#PEDOT
#bioelectronics
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Please help RT. Thx! We have multiple postdoctoral openings in Translational Soft Materials at MIT Zhao Lab. #polymer #hdyrogel #softmatter #flexibleelectronics #ultrasound #imaging #medicaldevices
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I cooked a 25LB turkey and 10LB ribs for Zhao Lab. Now lab members suggest me to change my career to a chef with their actions. Thank you all, Zhao Lab members, alumni, and friends! @MITMechE @MIT_CEE @MITEngineering @MIT
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I am honored to receive the Uncas and Helen Whitaker Chair Professorship @MIT @MITEngineering @MITMechE @MIT_CEE. The Whitaker Chair Professorship will facilitate our mission of advancing science and technology between humans and machines for better health and sustainability.
Uncas Whitaker was a prominent mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. At the age of 41, he founded AMP Inc which would become the world's largest manufacturer of electrical devices and connectors. He left his fortune for the Whitaker Foundation to improve people's lives primarily by supporting Biomedical engineering research and education.
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In @Nature today, we reported that adhesive implant-tissue interfaces can prevent the formation of observable fibrous capsules on various organs, including the abdominal wall, colon, stomach, lung and heart, in diverse animal models, including rats, mice, humanized mice and pigs.
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Anna and Elsa were thrilled to take a photo with a @harvard professor, and keen to share a holiday cake. Merry Christmas and happy new year @zhigangsuo!
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Please help RT. Thanks. We will explore the interface between #softmaterials and medical imaging beginning in 2022, and have positions on medical image processing, especially #ultrasound imaging. nitter.app/ProfZhaoMIT/status/147…
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If you are interested in a postdoctoral position in @MIT Zhao Lab or other @MITEngineering Labs, the MIT postdoctoral fellowship program for engineering excellence is a great opportunity.
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I am humbled and honored to join this list of Soft Matter Lecturers including my MIT colleague @PSdoyleMIT. Thank @lin_shaoting and Teng Zhang for the nomination. It was a joyful surprise since they did not tell me until submission of the nomination.
The @RoySocChem has awarded @ProfZhaoMIT the 2022 Soft Matter Lectureship for significant contributions to the soft matter field.
📸: :Alex Gagne
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Happy Lunar New Year! Chinese PIs from various schools of @mit celebrated lunar new together. Thanks Gang Chen for organizing the event. @MITEngineering @MIT_SHASS @ScienceMIT @MITSloan
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It took 60 years to look this good. Happy birthday @zhigangsuo! What a wonderful Suo Alumni Symposium. We look forward to SES Symposium Honoring Zhigang tomorrow.
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E-bioadhesive interface capable of directly adhering electrodes on beating rat hearts over weeks without suture. Ready integration with bioelectronic devices. One step closer to human-machine merger.
@NatureMaterials @Medtronic @GSKU @MIT @MITMechE
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Our recent paper on "tissue double-sided tape" published on @nature.
*A new dry-crosslinking mechanism for wet adhesion.
*Adhere wet dynamic tissues and devices in 5s, maintain high adhesion strength over days, eventually degrade.
*Diverse applications.
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Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
#hydrogels #softmaterials #polymers #tissues #biomaterials #bioelectronics #bioinspiration #networks #fracture #fatigue #adhesion #conductive #magnetized #selfhealing
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Applying a "wearable" sensor on a squid in seconds without suturing.
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Congratulations, Dr Kim! @YoonhoKim_MIT
Your defense impressed a packed room and over 100 attendees on Zoom. Zhao Lab is so proud of you. @MITMechE @mit @MITEngineering
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A full day in-person meetings with my group in the office. I miss seeing the sparks in their eyes when they discuss creative ideas. I miss watching this vibrant backyard. Welcome back!
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Anna at Wellesley College @Wellesley. She is tearing a piece of fall leaf and then pulling father's gray hair. May this beautiful fall return in future years.
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How to design the most agile soft robot in blood vessels treating stroke and arrhythmia? Mechanics is the key.
Evolutionary design of magnetic soft continuum robots pnas.org/content/118/21/e202…
Special thanks to our clinical collaborators @AmanBPatel and Pablo from @harvardmed.
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An extensive review on the nascent field of "Engineered Living Hydrogels" led by @xinyue1liu
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Proud to be named a Highly Cited Researcher 2021 by @ClarivateAG. See the full list bit.ly/3qEBjxg #HighlyCited2021
@MITMechE @MIT_CEE @MIT
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Suo group alumni got together with Prof. Suo @zhigangsuo after almost 3 years. A special guest @metin_sitti joined our photo. Thanks @nanshulu for organizing this.
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Prof. Wei Gao @WeiGaoLab from @Caltech gave a great talk on Wearable Sweat Sensors at @MITMechE @mit_dmse SMSD seminar series. We could learn some much about our health and diseases from our sweat. Curious? Read their papers. gao.caltech.edu/
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Artificial barnacle glue
*New repel-dry-crosslinking mechanics
*Coagulation-independent haemostatic sealing of severe high-pressure hemorrhages within 15s
*Triggered by gentle pressure W/O UV, light, heat etc
*Applicable on complex geometries
*Validated in rat &pig models
Rapid and coagulation-independent haemostatic sealing by a paste inspired by barnacle glue
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Anna and Elsa won the cutest costume at @MIT_CEE Halloween party! I am the happiest daddy.
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A mechanics problem, adhesion, in a challenging environment, inside the body. There are millions of surgeries worldwide a year to repair GI defects, and the leakage rate is up to 20 percent in high-risk patients. A grand challenge? Please read and RT👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/scit…
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An extensive review on "Magnetic Soft Materials and Robots" on @ACSChemRev led by @YoonhoKim_MIT. I will post a few figures in this thread. If intrigued by magnetic #softmaterials, please read the review and RT.
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I truly enjoyed my visit @UTAustin.
@NPeppas is among the top 3 persons who influence our research in #softmaterials. Looking at his textbook and academic family tree, I am not alone. Thank @UTAustin students and colleagues who joined the seminar. Thank Gabriel Sanoja for the kind invitation. I am impressed by his works with @CretonCost and independently in his lab. Thank @RuiHuangUTAus @nanshulu, Ravi, Ken, and many colleagues for meetings.
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We report wearable bioadhesive ultrasound elastography (BAUS-E) capable of continously measuring the stiffness of deep internal organs over 48 hours.
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What is the best gift an academic father can hope from his sons? Michael @suospeaks and Daniel printed all @zhigangsuo's papers and thesis, compiled them into books, and carried them all the way to @SocEngScience. They do care about your works @zhigangsuo.
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I am extremely honored to join Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) @EmlWebinar as co-Editor-in-Chief. EML publishes short research letters and long review papers in the general fields related to mechanics. EML publications are extremely fast, interesting, and impactful. @MITMechE @MIT_CEE @MIT
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.
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Materials science and technology will play a key role in future robotic innovation. Here are some of our thoughts on this nexus between materials and robotics. @MPI_IS
@Cornell @MITMechE
@YoonhoKim_MIT
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In the last five years, Denian witnessed the birth of my two daughters, helped me through dark periods of life, and exemplified resilience, wisdom, and decency. I miss Denian.
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3D printing a soft neural probe with conducting polymers and insulating elastomers. The probe can detect single neuron activities in a live rat over 2 weeks.
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Simple, fast, high-precision, multimaterial 3dp.
#neural
#bioelectronics
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"Nonlocal Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymerlike Networks" appears in @PhysRevLett. We show that the intrinsic fracture energy of polymer-like networks is due to nonlocal dissipation, different from the classical Lake-Thomas model.
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Hydrogel Machines
This review @MaterialsToday
summarizes a nascent field "Hydrogel Machines". Free download within 50 days.
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Sorry for not citing many classical papers on hydrogels in biomedical applications.
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There are millions of #bioelectronic implants into human bodies annually; all based on rigid metal electrodes. Soft conductive hydrogels would be ideal for bioelectrodes. @NatureMaterials We report bi-continuous conductive, stretchable, long-term robust hydrogel bioelectrodes.
3D printable high-performance conducting polymer hydrogel for all-hydrogel bioelectronic interfaces @HyunwooYuk @ProfZhaoMIT go.nature.com/3NevobC
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Proud to be named a Highly Cited Researcher 2022 by @ClarivateAG with colleagues @mit @MITMechE @MIT_CEE. Thank all coauthors!
See the full list bit.ly/3fPhNLo #HighlyCited2022
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Fatigue-resistant coating of hydrogels. Sliding and wearing test.
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Telerobotic Stroke Intervention led by @YoonhoKim_MIT @MITMechE @MIT in collaboration with @AmanBPatel Pablo Harker @rwregen Justin E. Vranic @AdamDmytriw @MGHNeurosurg and Marcin Balicki @Philips.
Paper science.org/doi/10.1126/scir…
Summary video piped.video/IYlHl6h8lm4
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Happy birthday, @HyunwooYuk and @YoonhoKim_MIT! For me and many Zhao Lab members, it is great pleasure to work with and learn from you guys. One loves 🐇; one loves 🐕. And both are scientists and inventors. You will make the world a better place! @MITMechE @MIT_CEE
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I will give a talk on "Merging Human-Machine Intelligence with Soft Materials Technology" on Fri, April 24 9:30AM EST at
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I will cover #bioadhesives #bioelectronics #biorobots
The main dish is Prof. Zhonglin Wang's talk before mine at 8:00 AM EST.
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.@ProfJohnARogers is giving a talk to a fully packed room @MIT on #softmaterials in #wearable for #health impact. John's early PhD work @mit was already exemplary for fundamental research that made societal and translational impacts. His current work is simply world-changing! Tomorrow, he will give another talk on #degradable devices for implantable applications @mit_dmse.
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On the cover of @ScienceAdvances, we report an elastomer with over 50% strain-induced crystallization, much higher than the 20% level of state-of-the-art rubbers.
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* The new elastomer is achieved by deswelling a tetra-arm “ideal” polymer network gel. Such network architecture minimizes entanglement and facilitates chain alignment and strain-induced crystallization.
* The scaling for the stretchability of the new elastomer is N^2/3, instead of N^1/2 for common elastomers.
* Due to the ultrahigh strain -induced crystallization, the new elastomer has a fracture toughness of 4.2 to 4.5 kJm−2 with negligible bulk hysteresis.
* Due to the ultrahigh strain -induced crystallization, the new elastomer has a high elastocaloric effect with an adiabatic temperature change of 9.3°C.
* The new elastomer is very easy to make and use. Many other amazing properties of the new elastomer are being studied by us and collaborators.
This work is a great collaboration with Michael Rubinstein @DukeU. Congratulations to @chase_hartquist @lin_shaoting @ShuWang_1111 James Zhang @MITMechE @MIT_CEE
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Congratulations to Xinyu! She is a rising star in the field of Hydrogel Machines.
MechE grad student Xinyue Liu received the 2020 Fall @Materials_MRS Graduate Student Silver Award for her work with @ProfZhaoMIT on hydrogel machines that interface with human body #F20MRS
📸: Xinyue Liu
ALT Hydrogel devices on fingertips
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I am fortunate and grateful to know and work with this group of brilliant young talents. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Anna was kayaking for the first time on Charles river. We started around Mountain Auburn hospital where she was born, passed by Harvard where I studied, and headed towards MIT. I tried to tell her stories; she was more excited about chasing geese and ducks.
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Thank Nature for the highlight! While Nature did not offer to publish the paper, I am proud of this work because the soft neuroprosthetic hand directly helped two amputees in daily life, demonstrating real impact of soft materials and #softrobotics.
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Chef Zhao juniors enjoyed our Thanksgiving turkey. Cooking Thanksgiving turkeys for my family and group has become a treasured tradition. Thank you for being in my life.
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A late celebration of @HyunwooYuk's defense. Hyunwoo looks almost the same as 7.5 years ago.
@MITMechE @lin_shaoting @sarahw_twt @jingjingwu2525 @chase_hartquist @xinyue1liu @YoonhoKim_MIT
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#Diabetic ulcer occurs in ~15% #diabetic patients. With Veves group @BIDMChealth, we invented a #bioadhesive patch with precise programmable strains to accelerate diabetic ulcer healing via #softmaterials #mechanics #biotech. @MITMechE @MIT_CEE
Paper:
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What can be more proud than having a lab member/alum selected as #TR35? Having two of them. @HyunwooYuk for bioadhesive technology and @YoonhoKim_MIT for soft neurovascular robots. So proud of our lab members and alumni. Thanks @techreview @MITMechE @MIT!
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Let's congratulate Zhigang!
@nanshulu @ToLiTeng @RuiHuangUTAus @ShengqiangCai @YuhangHu @KejieZhao @RuobingB ... ...
In honor of his contributions to materials science, Zhigang Suo (@zhigangsuo) of @Harvard @HSEAS is being inducted to the National Academy of Sciences following his election in 2019.
Watch the #NAS159 livestream: ow.ly/b9YU50IVlaI
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Zhao Lab welcomes @shucong_li_hhh our newest postdoc associate! Shucong graduated from @Tsinghua_Uni and @hseas. She is an expert in microfabrication, soft active materials, and light-matter interaction. Deep and creative. A recent paper by Shucong
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We will have a new department Head, John Hart. Look forward to seeing a new chapter of @MITMechE under John's leadership!
@MIT @MITEngineering @MIT_CEE
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Thank @ACSChemRev for featuring this work as the front cover.
Soft Materials by Design: Unconventional Polymer Networks Give Extreme Properties.
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SanaHeal @SanaHeal led by @HyunwooYuk is translating this technology platform into products. sanaheal.com
MIT researchers developed a surgical tape that works like a Band-Aid for internal organs.
@ProfZhaoMIT #MedEd #MedTwitter #materials
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The Mid-Autumn moon shining above @hseas Allston building. I took this photo at my daughter's playground. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
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Soft neuroprosthetic hand
*Light, cheap, durable
*EMG control & tactile sensing
*Model/theory-guided design
*Product-level quality & readiness
*Two patients wearing it in standard tests and daily life
@guguoying @lin_shaoting and the team are the heroes!
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A soft neuroprosthetic hand providing simultaneous myoelectric control and tactile feedback
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I arrived @ETH_en on a Zurich holiday of "Burning Snowman". Even more impressive interactions with @studart_andre, @mtibbitt, Lucio Isa, @SimoneSchuerle, @JanVermant, Jörg Löffler, Pietro Gambardella, Laura Heyderman, Ahmed Daniel and colleagues and students @eth_dmavt...Thanks!
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A perfect day for biking with two cool @MITMechE girls! They loved their hats and sunglasses from 2023 Fall MechE Block Party.
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The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (@MITMechE) seeks candidates for faculty positions starting July 1, 2024 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter. More Info + Apply: meche.mit.edu/faculty-positi… Questions: mefacultysearch2024@mit.edu
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Hearty congratulations to Dr. Liu @xinyue1liu on successfully defending her PhD thesis at @MITMechE. Many thanks to our all-star committee: @timlu, @cgtraverso, Cullen Buie. Xinyue is an expert in the fields of hydrogel machines and living materials. doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.201…
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* Soft fatigue-resistant hydrogel optical fibers that reliably function in living animals for months.
* Fatigue-resistant reliable connections with other devices.
* Easy and reproducible protocol.
* The paper can be downloaded here.
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The @SiyuanRao lab developed flexible and fatigue-resistant optical fibers made from hydrogel that allow optogenetic manipulations in the periphery in freely behaving mice.
@xinyue1liu @AnikeevaLab @ProfZhaoMIT
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A postdoc position is immediately available in MIT Zhao Lab zhao.mit.edu. The position will be in the area of soft materials for translational medicine.
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The technology is being translated into various medical devices at @SanaHeal. @HyunwooYuk
MIT researchers developed a surgical tape that works like a Band-Aid for internal organs.
@ProfZhaoMIT #MedEd #MedTwitter #materials
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Lunch with a group of MechE colleagues @MITMechE @MIT @MITEngineering @DrRituRaman @CarlosMPortela @ellentroche @cgtraverso
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We appreciated the broad and profound impact of @zhigangsuo's works on the 2nd day of @SocEngScience Symposium Honoring his birthday! We will resume the symposium tomorrow 9:30 AM at Room Bemidji. Gang Chen, John Rogers, @ShuYangPenn @NguyenLabJHU, Shiqing Wang will give talks.
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I am proud and humbled to be a @ClarivateAG HCR together with @MITMechE colleagues Gang Chen, Evelyn Wang, Shao Yang @EELabMIT, @toniobuonassisi. Credits really belong to Zhao Lab members, alumni, collaborators, and mentors.
.@ProfZhaoMIT has been named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2022 by Clarivate. Zhao aims to advance science and technology between humans and machines to address grand societal challenges in health and sustainability.
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We made hydrogels into invisible robots in water and ingestible devices by #3dprinting and tough hydrogel-hydrogel adhesion.
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@zhigangsuo @shrikezhang @MITMechE @MIT_CEE @NicholasFang10 @metin_sitti
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Mechanics of Materials II @MITMechE 2.002 teaching team and the authors of the textbook for the class.
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Hearty congratulations to Dr. Wu @sarahw_twt ! The committee, Zhao lab, friends and family are so proud of what you have achieved. Best wishes for a brilliant future in career and life!
@MITMechE @mit @MIT_IMES @ellentroche.
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It is a great pleasure to give the eWear seminar at @Stanford. The room was so packed that several colleagues and students had to join the seminar via Zoom.
Thanks very much for @zhenanbao kind invitation and hosting. Great interactions with Guosong Hong, Ovijit Chaudhuri, Ruike Renee Zhao, and many others.
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Thank you @softmatter @aljcrosby !
2022 Soft Matter Lectureship winner Xuanhe Zhao receiving his certificate after talking about his work @ProfZhaoMIT @MIT
ALT Xuanhe Zhao receiving his certificate as 2022 Soft Matter lectureship winner
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Anna and I walked to @Harvard stadium. I explained to her why our shadows are long in the afternoon. Today is a great day!
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Hearty congratulations to newly minted Dr. Wang @ChongheWang! The committee and audience were deeply impressed by your innovation and translation of #wearable #ultrasound technology. Best wishes for translating bioadhesive ultrasound #BAUS into clinical and societal impacts! @MITMechE @MIT @XugroupUCSD @XiaoyuC16598565
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I will give talks at #F21MRS. Welcome!
Hydrogel Bioelectronics
Time: Nov 30, 5 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Sheraton, 2nd Floor, Back Bay B;
Machine Learning-Based Design of Metamaterials and Soft Robots
Time: Dec 1, 10:30AM to 11 AM
Location: Sheraton, 3rd Floor, Commonwealth
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Our new paper on @ScienceAdvances.
#Crystallography+#FEMA simulation+#MachineLearning (#GANs) to design complex architectured materials.
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Printing and engineering tough vascular conduits. @shrikezhang lab at @BrighamWomens leads this project and paper. Congratulations to @shrikezhang and other co-authors! #toughhydrogels #solidmechanics @MITMechE @MIT_CEE
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Welcome to Boston and #MRSFall2022! I will give two talks on Mon and Tue and propose two challenges:
* How to continuously image the full human body with um resolution over days?
* How to minimally invasively edit the full human body with um precision with #robots?
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Tumors are biological hydrogels with aberrant physical and mechanical properties compared to normal tissues. @lin_shaoting @xinyue1liu @chase_hartquist @sarahw_twt @jingjingwu2525 @HyunwooYuk
The biological and physical properties of tumors contribute to their growth and to treatment outcome. A 2020 #ScienceReview looks at the physical features that are common to tumors and that limit successful treatment. fcld.ly/xh58ll3
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