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October 2025: Our non-pneumatic tire based on topologically polarized lattices was granted a US patent. Congratulations to co-inventor and former lab member Will Zunker!
August 2025: Our latest work on topological mechanics has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences LINK
July 2025: Honored to be elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
July 2025: Check out our latest work on drop motion controls with vibrations, published in the Physical Review Research LINK
July 2025: Just delivered a keynote lecture in a vibrant Mini-Symposium on Elastic Metamaterials and Topological Aspects of Waves at ESMC 2025 in Lyon, France
June 2025: Just delivered a plenary lecture at Phononics 2025 in Seoul, South Korea
May 2025: Congratulations to group member and PhD candidate Pegah Azizi, recipient of the prestigious Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
May 2025: Congratulations to group alumnus Mohammad Charara, recipient of the prestigious university-wide Best PhD Dissertation Award for the category Physical Sciences & Engineering category at the University of Minnesota
February 2025: Our latest work, demonstrating programmability of liquid drop motion using metamaterials, has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A LINK
November 2024: Our work with Princeton collaborators, mixing origami and topological mechanics, has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences LINK
September 2024: Congratulations to group alumnus Mohammad Charara, recipient of an Engineering Excellence postdoc fellowship at MIT
August 2024: Our paper Nonlocal twist sequences in floppy kagome chains has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Applied
August 2024: Our paper Omnidirectional domain wall modes protected by fragile topological states has been accepted for publication as a Letter in Physical Review B
July 2024: Our paper Edge-selective reconfiguration in polarized lattices with magnet-enabled bistability has been accepted for publication in Extreme Mechanics Letters
July 2024: We have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation titled Collaborative Research: Topology of shapes, topology of waves and their interplay in metamaterials optimization. Our collaborator is Shelly Zhang (UIUC)
October 2023: Just finished hosting the SES 2023 Annual technical Meeting. Thank you to all who have contributed to make it a huge success!
September 2023: Congratulations to group alumnus Weijian Jiao, new faculty member at Tongji University
September 2023: Excited to begin my sabbatical year as William R. Kenan Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University
September 2023: Welcome to Sergio V.B. Santos, new PhD student in the group
July 2023: Honored to receive the James L. Record Professorship, in the footsteps of many UMN CEGE greats.
March 2023: Our paper Dynamics of self-dual kagome metamaterials and the emergence of fragile topology has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
December 2022: We have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation titled Metamaterial architectures for programmable droplet motion. Our collaborator is Sungyon Lee (U of Minnesota)
October 2022: Congratulations to group member Caleb Widstrand, recipient of CEGE Cale Anger Best MS Thesis award
October 2022: Our paper Omnimodal topological polarization of bilayer networks: Analysis in the Maxwell limit and experiments on a 3D-printed prototype has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. LINK
May 2022: Our paper Bandgap tuning in kerfed metastrips under extreme deformation has been published in Extreme Mechanics Letters. LINK
December 2021: Our paper Topological Flexural Modes in Polarized Bilayer Lattices has been published in Physical Review Applied. LINK
July 2021: Our paper Wavenumber-space band clipping in nonlinear periodic structures has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. LINK
June 2021: Our paper Tunable band gaps and symmetry breaking in magnetomechanical metastructures inspired by multilayer 2D materials has been published as a Letter in Physical Review B. LINK
June 2021: Our paper Soft topological lattice wheels has been published in Extreme Mechanics Letters. LINK
March 2021: Congratulations to group alumnus R. Ganesh, new faculty member at IIT Bombay
December 2020: We have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation titled Collaborative Research: Cellular Metamaterials That Localize Stress. Towards A Topological Protection against Fracture. Our collaborators are Joe Labuz (U of Minnesota) and Xiaoming Mao (U of Michigan)