• Recruiting PhD students to study Solid Mechanics at Harvard

• fracture, deformation, polarization, diffusion, solid-state reaction
• soft materials, active materials, lithium-ion batteries
• mechanics, thermodynamics, kinetics
• slides of research presentations
• videos of research presentations

• Reactive flow in solids, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
• Bursting drops in solid dielectrics caused by high voltages. Nature Communications.
• Highly stretchable and tough hydrogels. Suplementary Information and Movies. Nature. (Online reports)
• Large conversion of energy in dielectric elastomers by electromechanical phase transition, Acta Mechanica Sinica
• Macroporous nanowire nanoelectronic scaffolds for synthetic tissues, Nature Materials
• Robotic tentacles with three-dimensional mobility based on flexible elastomers, Advanced Materials
• Kinetics of initial lithiation of crystalline silicon electrodes of lithium-ion batteries, Nano Letters
• Surface energy as a barrier to creasing of elastomer films: An elastic analogy to classical nucleation, Physical Review Letters
• Dielectric elastomer actuators under equal-biaxial forces, uniaxial forces, and uniaxial constraint of stiff fibers, Soft Matter
• Mechanics and chemical thermodynamics of phase transition in temperature-sensitive hydrogels, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
• Theory of dielectric elastomers capable of giant deformation of actuation, Physical Review Letters
• Using indentation to characterize the poroelasticity of gels, Applied Physics Letters
• Full list of papers

• Mechanics of stretchable electronics and soft machines
• Theory of dielectric elastomers (in Chinese)
• Theory of dielectric elastomers (in English)
• Micromechanics of macroelectronics
• New directions in mechanics
• Forces that drive self-assembly on solid surfaces
• Stress and strain in ferroelectrics
• Evolving material structures of small feature sizes
• Models for metal/ceramic interface fracture
• Remarks on crack-bridging concepts
• Mechanics concepts for failure in ferroelectrics

• Reliability of interconnect structures
• Motions of microscopic surfaces in materials
• Mixed-mode cracking in layered materials

• suo group seminar
• Seminars of the International Center of Applied Mechanics (ICAM)
• harvard applied mechanics colloquium
• widely applied mathematics seminar
• squishy physics & pizza seminar

• Engineering Sciences 181 Engineering Thermodynamics (Day by day list of topics)
• Engineering Sciences 240 Solid Mechanics
• Engineering Sciences 241 Advanced Elasticity, with emphasis on thermodynamics, large deformation, and soft active materials
• Engineering Sciences 242r, Spring 2007 Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Composite Materials
• Engineering Sciences 242r, Spring 2004 Evolving Small Structures
• Engineering Sciences 246 Plasticity (Day by day list of topics)
• Eengineering Sciences 247 Fracture Mechanics
• Notes on Statistical Thermodynamics

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