• JJ Wie awarded Outstanding Poster Award at 31st Polymer Processing Society

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    JeongJae Wie was awarded Outstanding Poster Award (10 awards out of more than 250 posters) from the 31st Polymer Processing Society (PPS-31). The title of the poster was “Light-Driven Actuation of Microstructured Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks”. Collaborators for this work include Hangbo Zhao, Davor Copic, Alvin Orbaek White, Sanha Kim, and John Hart. Congratulations!

  • MISTI Excellence Award in Global Citizenship Awarded to Ron Rosenberg

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    Ron Rosenberg, a first year master’s student in the Mechanosynthesis group was recently awarded a MISTI Excellence Award for demonstrating global citizenship during his undergraduate and graduate studies. Throughout his undergraduate studies, Ron took part in three MIT International Science and Technology Initiative (MISTI) Programs in Chile, Israel, and India – working as a mechanical…

  • Roll-to-roll graphene manufacturing process featured in MIT News and gizmag

    Mechanosynthesis research into a scalable and cost-effective method for continuous manufacturing of graphene films was highlighted in both MIT News and gizmag! The team led by John Hart also included Erik Polsen and Daniel McNerny of the University of Michigan and postdocs Viswanath Balakrishnan and Sebastian Pattinson published the paper entitled High-speed roll-to-roll manufacturing of graphene…

  • John Lewandowski featured in MechE Newsletter

    John Lewandowski, a PhD student in the Mechanosynthesis Group, was featured in the “Student Spotlight” as part of the Engineering for Global Change Department Newsletter for his graduate work on “Low-Cost Diagnostic Devices for the Developing World”!

  • Sanha Kim wins 2014 MRS Best Poster Award for "Polymer-Coated Carbon Nanotube Arrays as a Stamp for Micro-Contact Printing"

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    Congratulations to Sanha Kim, who received the highly selective honor of MRS Best Poster Awards last night!  The meeting chairs judge the posters and place ribbons on approximately 3 out of more than 100 posters every night, spanning all the symposium topics. The title of the poster, seen below, was “Polymer-Coated Carbon Nanotube Arrays as…

  • Ryan Oliver defends doctoral thesis entitled "Direct Write Manufacturing and Interactive Manipulation of Microparticles"

    Ryan Oliver successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Direct Write Manufacturing and Interactive Manipulation of Microparticles” at the University of Michigan. This is the 7th PhD student from the Mechanosynthesis Group. Congratulations Dr. Oliver!

  • Nathan Spielberg featured on MIT homepage for 3D printing work

    Nathan Spielberg, working in the Mechanosynthesis laboratory to manufacture “lab on a chip” microfluidic devices, is highlighted on the MIT homepage!

  • John Hart gives invited seminars in Singapore and Tokyo

    Prof. John Hart gives invited seminars at the National University of Singapore, Singapore University of Technology and Design, and University of Tokyo. Here’s a photo from Tokyo, with members of Prof. Shigeo Maruyama’s group.

  • A new way to make microstructured surfaces

    The Mechanosynthesis Group’s work on strain-engineered CNT growth in Nature Communications was featured in MIT News. Along with John Hart, the research team included Michael de Volder of Cambridge University; Sei Jin Park, a visiting doctoral student from the University of Michigan; and Sameh Tawfick, a former postdoc at MIT who is now at the University of Illinois…

  • Sei Jin Park defends doctoral thesis

    Sei Jin Park successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Carbon Nanotube Microarchitectures for Mechanical Metamaterials” at the University of Michigan. This is the 6th PhD student from the Mechanosynthesis Group. Congratulations Dr. Park!