hydrogels
Looking for a Postdoctoral Position
Looking for postdoctoral position. My current postdoc contract at National University of Singapore will be terminated in the end of August, 2016. I have quite good experience in the following areas during my PhD and current postdoc career.
Areas: Dielectric elastomer, Smart Polymer, Energy harvesting using EAPs, Soft Actuation, Hydrogels/conducting polymers, Polymer nanocomposites, Dielectric/Piezoelectric materials.
Looking for a postdoctoral position
Dear iMechanica members,
I am looking for a postdoctoral position to work in an experimental lab mainly focused on fuctional polymer material (like- hydrogels, composities etc.) synthesis.
Currently, I am working as as postdoc at UNC-CH to reveal the physical properties of living polymer material mucins/mucs.
I have completed successfully my PhD from the University of Hokkaido, Japan under the supervision of Professor JP Gong.
Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels
- Jeong-Yun Sun, Xuanhe Zhao, Widusha R.K. Illeperuma, Kyu Hwan Oh, David J. Mooney, Joost J. Vlassak, Zhigang Suo. Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels. Nature 489, 133-136 (2012).
- Watch movie on stretchy and tough gels
- Suplementary Information and Movies
- Nature News and Views, A hard concept in soft matter, by Kenneth R. Shull.
Mechanics and chemical thermodynamics of phase transition in temperature-sensitive hydrogels
This paper uses the thermodynamic data of aqueous solutions of uncrosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) to study the phase transition of PNIPAM hydrogels. At a low temperature, uncrosslinked PNIPAM can be dissolved in water and form a homogenous liquid solution. When the temperature is increased, the solution separates into two liquid phases with different concentrations of the polymer. Covalently crosslinked PNIPAM, however, does not dissolve in water, but can imbibe water and form a hydrogel. When the temperature is changed
Recruiting PhD students for Cell Mechanics Lab at Rensselaer
Full support is available for 2 PhD students in cellular mechanics group in Biomedical Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The applicants should have mechanics, materials or soft matter physics background, with some experimental experience at micro-scales. Experience with any of the following is considered a
plus: computational mechanics, cell/tissue culture, microscopy, image analysis, photonics.