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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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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!
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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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3DCNT Team receive the UMich Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award
September 2010: Our 3DCNT team will receive the UMich Robert M. Caddell Memorial Award for Outstanding Research in Materials and Manufacturing.