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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.
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