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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…
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Sameh Tawfick begins as Assistant Professor at UIUC
Sameh Tawfick, Mechanosynthesis PhD and postdoc alum, begins as Assistant Professor at UIUC
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CNT microfabrication process chosen as JMM “Highlight of 2011”
Our group’s work on CNT microfabrication was honored as one of the Highlights of 2011 by the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. The article is entitled “Fabrication and electrical integration of robust carbon nanotube micropillars by self-directed elastocapillary densification.” As noted by Ian Forbes, PhD, publisher, “the chosen articles were identified as some of the highest…
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Sameh Tawfick Dissertation Defense
November 21, 2011: Sameh Tawfick successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Mechanocapillary Forming of Filamentary Materials”
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4D-CNT team featured at "Celebrate Invent"
Our 4DCNT team was selected to present at the annual University of Michigan “Celebrate Invention” reception, which attracted over 500 faculty, students, investors, and business leaders. Sameh Tawfick and John Hart were pictured on the front page of the University Record. See the accompanying article.
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Sameh Tawfick receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
March 2011: Sameh Tawfick receives a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, and the Michigan Ivor K. McIvor Award for outstanding research and scholarship in applid mechanics.