A studentship opportunity is available at COHMAS within the framework of a research project related to future flexible electronics. These are usually made of a transparent electrode (ITO) deposited on a polymer substrate. Such design results in loss of integrity when cracks develop in the thin brittle electrode. This projects intends to characterize mechanical properties of new solution for which the electrode and the substrate are merged together into a single active layer. The project will cover fatigue dependent properties as well a piezoresistive effects. Prospective candidate students will be exposed to a truly multidisciplinary work, involving topics in materials science and solid mechanics; in addition, he/she will participate in scientific outreach activities.

A studentship opportunity is available at COHMAS within the framework of a research project related to adhesion phenomena across interfaces with spatially heterogeneous adhesive properties. The project aims to explore the effect of heterogeneities on the mechanical behavior of bonded interfaces through integrated experiments and simulations. The research seeks to systematically design multiple sites of potential crack pinning across the interface, able to trigger sequential events of initiation, propagation and crack arrest, thus promoting macroscopic variations of strength and toughness.

The Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) invites applications for a Postdoctoral fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the Composite and Heterogeneous Material Analysis and Simulation Laboratory (COHMAS, http://cohmas.kaust.edu.sa).

Journal Tittle: Advances in Mechanics

Article Tittle: Research progress in degradation mechanism of silicon anode materials for lithium-ion batteries

Author: MA Zengsheng, ZHOU Yichun, LIU Jun, XUE Dongfeng, YANG Qingsheng, PAN Yong

Abstract:

We would be pleased to have a contribution from you or from one of the
members of your group among the presentations of the symposium entitled

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS OF CELLS TISSUES  AND BIOMATERIALS

organized within the joint World Congress on Computational Mechanics and European Conference on Computational Mechanics (http://www.wccm-eccm-ecfd2014.org/frontal/default.asp )

to be held on 20-25 July 2014 in Barcelona (Spain).

Published in Nano Letters, 2014, 14 (1), pp 139–147  

Ying Li, Wylie Stroberg, Tae-Rin Lee, Han Sung Kim, Han Man, Dean Ho, Paolo Decuzzi, Wing Kam Liu

Dr. Steven Kurtz, Exponent, Inc., and Drexel University, USA will be the Plenary Speaker at ICoBT2014

Keynote Speakers include:

Dr. Siegfried Derler, EMPA, Switzerland

Professor Jeremy Gilbert, Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, USA

Dr. Jason Stokes, The University of Queensland, Australia

Professor Yu Tian, Tsinghua University, China