Organizers:
- Weiyi Lu, Michigan State University
- Baoxing Xu, University of Virginia
Description:
Interaction of solid with liquid is ubiquitous in nature, and its underpinned physical and chemical characteristics have been leveraged to benefit almost every aspect of our daily life and industry over decades. The concept of solid-liquid interaction is recently reemerging with the ever-fasting demands of calling for innovative design principles and approaches in both design and manufacturing of advanced materials, structures and devices, where seamless integrations and assemblies of different material/phase components are required across multiple scales. Distinct from the solid-solid interaction, the solid-liquid interaction provides a unique and tactful platform for future manufacturing. Due to the intrinsic deformation-free and fluidity of the liquid phase, the solid-liquid interface remains intact, and thus, releases residual stress or/and avoids deformation mismatch with surrounding solid constraints during growth, self-assembly and manufacturing of the resulted materials and structures. Understanding the underlying complex and multiplex coupled mechanics mechanisms of solid-liquid interaction is not only crucial to optimize existing strategies to material and structural design and approaches to manufacturing, but also fosters new design and manufacturing solutions with unique capability, cost efficiency, and high precision.
This symposium aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussing mechanics of materials at solid-liquid interfaces that enable design and manufacturing approaches of materials, structures and devices down to nanoscale. Topics are included but not limited to:
- Theory, modeling, and experiment of material deformation, instability and assembly based on solid-liquid interactions
- Solid-liquid interactions in unusual physical or/and geometric environments
- Intelligent design of materials, structures and devices by solid-liquid interactions
- Unusual manufacturing and integration approach of materials, structures and devices by solid-liquid interactions