Functional polymers
Explore the relationship between formulation, structure, and mechanical or electrical behavior across a broad design space.
Materials & resources
From models to materials.
Our materials work connects simulation, optimization, and physical implementation. We study how structure and behavior can inform the next design and experiment.
Research directions
Physical questions that guide the work.
These directions bring material behavior, fabrication, measurement, and system requirements into the same research loop.
Compliant & adaptive systems
Connect geometry, material response, and control to understand stiffness, hysteresis, fatigue, and useful adaptive behavior.
Actuation & artificial muscles
Investigate architectures through the combined demands of force, strain, response time, efficiency, and cycle life.
Sensing & soft electronics
Study how deformation becomes a useful signal, with attention to sensitivity, drift, calibration, and durability.
Ionic systems
Use transport models to examine the connections between sensing, actuation, and adaptive behavior across time scales.
Multifunctional materials
Consider combinations of sensing, actuation, damping, compliance, and conductivity that serve a practical system need.
Resources
Explore the public work.
Research collaboration
Bring a materials problem.
We welcome conversations about modeling, characterization, fabrication, and the experiments that connect them.