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Recent Publications
- Macromolecular crowding directs extracellular matrix organization and mesenchymal stem cell behavior
- Congratulations Diana Mojahed!!!
- Mechanical resuscitation of chemical oscillations in Belousov-Zhabotinsky gels
- Nanomechanical quantification of elastic, plastic, and fracture properties of LiCoO2
- Congrats to Dr. Kabir on his recent fellowship!
- Reversible mechanism for spin crossover in transition-metal cyanides
- Self-oscillating gels on New Scientist
- Congrats, Dr. Paradise!
The Laboratory for Material Chemomechanics in the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering develops experimental and computational approaches toward the understanding of a key phenomenon in active materials: coupling between the mechanical and structural/functional states. By exploring coupling at the fundamental force and length scales of atoms and molecules, we seek to find commonalities among material systems ranging from metallic crystals to living biological cells that we can exploit for human advantage in sensing, actuating, and transduction applications. As a result, we develop in parallel several enabling nanomechanical frameworks such as nano/picoindentation, atomic force microscopy and functional force imaging.
Latest News
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Macromolecular crowding directs extracellular matrix organization and mesenchymal stem cell behavior
MIT NEWS Zeiger, A.S., Loe, F.C., Li, R., Raghunath, M., Van Vliet, K.J., “Macromolecular crowding directs extracellular matrix organization and mesenchymal stem cell behavior,” PLoS ONE, 2012 (in press). Full... -
Congratulations Diana Mojahed!!!
Congrats to high school Van Vliet lab alumnus, Diana Mojahed, for winning First Place at the Massachusetts States Science & Engineering Fair held at MIT on May 4-5, 2012. Her... -
Mechanical resuscitation of chemical oscillations in Belousov-Zhabotinsky gels
Chen, I.C., Kuksenok, O., Yashin, V.V., Balazs, A.C., Van Vliet, K.J., “Mechanical resuscitation of chemical oscillations in Belousov-Zhabotinsky gels,” Advanced Functional Materials, 2012 (DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201103036). Full Text PDF -
Nanomechanical quantification of elastic, plastic, and fracture properties of LiCoO2
Qu, M.*, Woodford, W.H.*, Maloney, J.M., Carter, W.C., Chiang, Y-M., Van Vliet, K.J., “Nanomechanical quantification of elastic, plastic, and fracture properties of LiCoO2,” Advanced Energy Materials, 2012 (in press). *indicates... -
Congrats to Dr. Kabir on his recent fellowship!
Dr. Mukul Kabir has recently been awarded the Ramanujan Fellowship (http://www.dst.gov.in/scientific-programme/ser-ramanujan.html) by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Congrats, Dr. Kabir! -
Reversible mechanism for spin crossover in transition-metal cyanides
Kabir, M., and Van Vliet, K.J. “Reversible mechanism for spin crossover in transition-metal cyanides” Phys. Rev. B 85(054431), 2012. Full Text PDF -
Self-oscillating gels on New Scientist
The website New Scientist released a story on Irene Chou Chen’s work on self-oscillating BZ gels. Click here to read the story! -
Congrats, Dr. Paradise!
Congrats to our newest PhD, Dr. Ranjani Paradise!