CAI Research Group
Our research is focused on the mechanics and chemistry of soft materials including both synthesized polymers and biological tissues. We try to understand and model large deformation, instabilities, fracture, fatigue, chemo-mechanical coupling, electro-mechanical coupling in diverse soft materials. We also explore novel engineering applications of soft materials, such as artificial muscle, soft robots, soft machines and biomedical devices.
Our research is focused on the mechanics and chemistry of soft materials including both synthesized polymers and biological tissues. We try to understand and model large deformation, instabilities, fracture, fatigue, chemo-mechanical coupling, electro-mechanical coupling in diverse soft materials. We also explore novel engineering applications of soft materials, such as artificial muscle, soft robots, soft machines and biomedical devices.
We recently have interests in the following areas:
We recently have interests in the following areas:
Deformation, fracture , fatigue, and time-dependent mechanical behaviors of polymers
Chemo-mechanics, electro-mechanics, thermo-mechanics of soft materials
Instabilities of materials and structures
Processing of polymers and polymer composites
Soft robotics
Design, fabrication and mechanical analysis of novel devices
Biomechanics
Erosion, degradation of polymers
Vitrimers
Characterizations and modeling of mechanical behaviors of polymers
Electrospinning of polymer fibers for diverse applications
