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Commencement 2008

Advice for young experimentalists

08/20/09 Professor Earmme, Y.Y. has spent his summer in our lab since July 14 for a collaborative research on MD and atomistic simulations of energy material behavior at the nanoscale.

08/17/09 Professor Hyun-Gyu Kim from SNUT has joined our group since August 17, 2009, to spend his sabbatical till August 2010, working on computational inverse problems. (See here)

07/31/09 Oscar has successfully completed his summer REU research and returned back to his home institution, Stanford University.

07/01/09 Shuman Xia has a new position at Caltech as research fellow.

06/09/09 New patent issued on “Tunable inverse pendulum vibration isolation system,” United States Patent, Patent Number 7,543,791.

06/01/09 Two REU students. Michael and Oscar, have joined our lab. Welcome!

05/24/09 Brian Burke got his Ph.D. degree, and Hsiao-Mei Wu and Alexander Pinkham got their Master degrees on this day. Congratulations!

05/08/09 Dr. HS Shin of KIST has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Science as a foreign member. Congratulations! Full list of new members.

04/07/09 Dr. Sang-Pil Kim joined the group as a research postdoctoral fellow. (See here)

03/27/09 Dr. Jin Woo Yi joined the group as a research postdoctoral fellow. (See here)

03/25/09 The nano and micromechanics laboratory has begun to participate in three-party collaborative research on developing nano and microstructures for energy and environment materials. The collaboration is made among the Computational Science Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory at Brown University and the Computational Nanomaterials Laboratory at Seoul National University, forming the Advanced Hybrid Computational Science Laboratory at KIST. The research is based on hybridization of advanced multi-scale experiment and high performance computing.

03/24/09 Prof. Kyung-Suk Kim gave a seminar on “Cross-scale engineering of nano and microstructures; Supercomputing simulations and Scale-bridging experiments” at Seoul National University.

MD simulation of sonication-induced CNT cutting

Publications

4th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics 2009

Singapore

Hybrid Multi Scale Experiments and High Performance Computing for Cross Scale Engineering of Nano and Microstructures

Kyung-Suk Kim (Keynote Speaker)

Keynote Session 1

Wednesday, November 18 Early AM

♦ Qunyang Li and Kyung-Suk Kim, “Micromechanics of rough surface adhesion: a homogenized projection method,” Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, vol. 22, No. 5, DOI: 10.1016/S0894-9166(09)60288-3 , October, 2009

♦ Yudi Rahmawan, Myoung-Woon Moon, Kyung-Suk Kim, Kwang-Ryeol Lee, and Kahp-Yang Suh, “Wrinkled, Dual-Scale Structures of Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) for Superhydrophobicity,” Langmuir, ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/la902129k, October 7, 2009.

♦ Huck Beng Chew, Soonsung Hong and Kyung-Suk Kim, “Cohesive zone laws for void growth - II. Numerical field projection of elasto-plastic fracture processes with vapor pressure,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 57(8), pp. 1374-1390, 2009.

♦ Soonsung Hong, Huck Beng Chew and Kyung-Suk Kim, “Cohesive zone laws for void growth - I. Experimental field projection of crack-tip crazing in glassy polymers,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 57(8), pp. 1357-1373, 2009.

♦ D. K. Ward, D. Farkas, J. Lian, W. A. Curtin, J. Wang, K.-S. Kim, and Y. Qi, “Engineering size-scaling of plastic deformation in nanoscale asperities,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 16(24), pp. 9580-9585, 2009.

♦ Kyung-Suk Kim and Allan Rydberg, “Tunable inverse pendulum vibration isolation system,” United States Patent, Patent Number 7,543,791: issued on June 9, 2009. (More details)

♦ Shuman Xia Yue Qi, Tom Perry and Kyung-Suk Kim, “Strength characterization of Al/Si interfaces: A hybrid method of nanoindentation and finite element analysis,” Acta Materialia. Vol. 57, Issue 3, pp. 695-707, 2009.

Recent Publications (2009)

Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory

The Nano & Micromechanics Laboratory is part of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures Group in the Division of Engineering at Brown University. It was established in 1989 as the Micromechanics Laboratory, and started nanomechanics research in 1990. Research and education carried out in this laboratory are associated with the experimental, computational and theoretical study of nanomechanics and micromechanics of materials.

Fabrication and characterization of nano-structures are also carried out with the facilities of national and international nanotechnology networks such as NNIN, KIST, etc.