Reading again the essay by Walter Noll, The Role of the Professor. He "lives" his subject and cannot easily switch it off, even while lying in bed awake or on vacation. He recreates the subject in his mind each time he lectures on it. https://t.co/T09LkIsHD6

We are excited about the 2025 SES meeting @SocEngScience next week. We will present our recent research progress covering topics: 1) Mechano-diffusion, 2) Tactile Robots, 3) Hydrogel Bioelectronics, 4) Topological Mechanics, 5) Elastocaloric Polymers. Feel free to stop by.

Highly excited to co-organize the 2026 MRS Spring Symposium SB08 with @Junsoo_twit , @cemilyd, and Wei Zhai on "High-Performance Soft Materials by Polymer-Network Design" at 2026 MRS Spring Meeting in Honolulu. Abstract submissions are now open! Look forward to your submission!

It's my great honor to host Prof. Bozhi Tian from U Chicago to give a seminar talk on Bioelectrical Interfaces for Translational Applications. We all enjoyed the talk and learned from the talk. Glad to see our students to have opportunities to interact with their role models.

In 1994, I went for my first sabbatical, at Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, in Stuttgart, Germany. My host, Manfred Rühle, let me alone. In the Institute Library, I discovered Gibbs’s paper on phases in a pure substance. What a revelation! https://t.co/qnf62DT7No

Many thanks for highlighting this. We feel grateful a recent award from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, seeking a new direction for harnessing mechanical deformation to engineer nanoparticle transport, potentially beneficial for enhanced oil recovery and drilling fluid design.

I am looking for a PhD scientist to work together @SanaHeal. Will work on products based on our bioadhesive technology platform internally & with large publicly traded company partnered on diverse medical devices. Our office/lab is in Boston & competitive salary & compensation

Feel deeply honored and truly grateful for being invited by Prof. Takamasa Sakai @Gel_Tokyo to give an invited talk on at the 19th Pacific Polymer Conference. This is my first time to visit Japan. Great to know polymer people in Japan.

We had a great one-day NSF-funded workshop this Friday, engaging more than 50 participants from more than 10 universities and industries. We hope this workshop can be an initiative to foster connections and collaborations between universities and industries.

Our paper is online! 😀 We developed a tough hydrogel that achieves high modulus, high fatigue threshold, and low hysteresis — simultaneously! 🔗 https://t.co/UrER4aS2Gj Many thanks to @zhigangsuo @ZheqiChen @GuodongNian @MWM_Tan @ykutsovsky @Christine_h_ahn

Join us for our upcoming University-Industry Workshop “High-Throughput Soft Material Development” on May 30th. We expect to have ~ 50 participants from more than 10 Universities and Industrials. You may also attend the event via zoom ID: 670 705 8733

A powerful strategy to develop materials for sustainability is to reimagine the existing economically important materials. In a new paper published in Nature Sustainability, we show that the performance of natural rubber can be greatly enhanced. https://t.co/aqEGr02C5X

My PhD student Jiabin Liu won the 2024-2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Mechanical Engineering. This is a highly prestigious honor, awarded to only one student per engineering department.

Our Nature paper has just been published ⁦@EPrinceton⁩ ⁦@Princeton⁩ ⁦@Nature⁩ ⁦@ASMEdotorg⁩ ⁦@ASCETweets⁩ ⁦@PopMech⁩ ⁦@GeorgiaTech⁩

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining @UF as an Assistant Professor in @uflmae starting in July of 2025! My research group will study the mechanics of structures, networks, and polymers. Go gators!

I will give a lecture, in MaP Distinguished Lecture Series on Engineering with Living Materials, ETH Zurich, titled Crack Growth in Soft Materials and Tissues 31 March 2025, Monday 11:15 (Boston) 16:15 (Zurich) The lecture will be online Zoom link:

We report a mechano-diffusion mechanism that harnesses mechanical deformation to control particle diffusion in hydrogels with a significantly enlarged tuning ratio and a highly expanded tuning freedom. Thanks the support from NSF Biosensing Program and NSF CAREER Program.

I am thrived to share our work titled "Mechano-Diffusion of Particles in Stretchable Hydrogels" is published in Soft Matter. Hearty congrats to Chuwei Ye, Congjie Wei, Jiabin Liu, and Tsz Hung Wong. Paper Link: https://t.co/DiJjAwVFuc

Grateful to organize the 2025 GRS Adhesion Science, creating a space for young researchers to share their work. Excited to have experts from academia & industry join us for a career panel discussion! @ProfZhaoMIT @Junsoo_twit Welcome to apply!!! @GordonConf @Princeton @UTAustin

We feel grateful for NSF support. Great work with @RuobingB on this collaborative project. We use experiment and theory to uncover the role of topological defects on mechanics of end-linked polymer networks with strain induced crystallization. This is 4th NSF grant in my group.