News
November 2023: New PhD opening in the group. See details here.
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)