Organizers:
- Stephan Rudykh, University of Galway
- Yuhang Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Xuanhe Zhao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Description:
Soft material is an increasingly active field of research driving science and technology into new exciting directions. Large deformations coupled with various multiphysics phenomena and instabilities at different length scales open an immensely rich research arena. The recently developed additive manufacturing (3D/4D printing) and machine learning techniques open up new avenues for developing multifunctional soft materials with novel properties and soft machines with life-like intelligence. Moreover, soft materials represent essential components in biological tissues, a topic of extreme interest for biomedical applications. This mini-symposium will address recent experimental, computational, theoretical, and manufacturing advances in the field of both synthetic and biological soft materials.
Topics of interest:
- Hydrogels,
- Active Polymers,
- Biomaterials,
- Instability,
- Fracture and Adhesion,
- Soft Robotics,
- ML for Soft Materials