Prior Research Highlights
2001 — 2022

MRSEC Research Year:

(Supported under the auspices of NSF-MRSEC [DMR-2011754])
2024 | 2023 | 2022


(Supported under the auspices of NSF-MRSEC [DMR 1420570])
2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010


(Supported under the auspices of NSF-MRSEC [DMR-0820484])
2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001

  

2022


Supported under the auspices of NSF-MRSEC (DMR-2011754)


(Supported under the auspices of NSF-MRSEC [DMR-1420570])

2021

([DMR-1420570]
September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2021)

2020

2019

2018

Printing of the MRSEC logo in two-color wax and two-color silicone
Printing of the MRSEC logo
in two-color wax and two-color silicone
Lewis
image of Digital Assembly of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators with Spatially Programmed Nematic Order
Digital Assembly of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
with Spatially Programmed Nematic Order
image of Forward-Looking Metalens</a><br />Adaptive Metalens
Forward-Looking Metalens
Adaptive Metalens
image of How the Cookie Sheet Crumples: New Insights into Material Deterioration and Failure
How the Cookie Sheet Crumples:
New Insights into Material Deterioration and Failure
image of Community College Partnerships: Recruiting Veterans into Materials Science Research Careers
Community College Partnerships:
Recruiting Veterans into Materials Science Research Careers
image of Hands-on Science Labs Inspire Native American High School Students
Hands-on Science Labs Inspire
Native American High School Students
image of Raising visibility of NSF MRSEC program< at the Materials Research Society meeting
Raising visibility of NSF MRSEC program
at the Materials Research Society meeting
image of International Industrial Partnership: Developing an Microfluidic Acoustic Wave Cell Sorter
International Industrial Partnership:
Developing an Microfluidic Acoustic Wave Cell Sorter
image of Nexus of Engineering and Societal Needs - Partnership between Harvard and UTEC (Lima, Peru)
Nexus of Engineering and Societal Needs
Partnership between Harvard & UTEC (Lima, Peru)

2017

image of Tough Adhesives for Wet Surfaces
Tough Adhesives
for Wet Surfaces
image of Controlled Self-Assembly of Optical Microstructures
Controlled Self-Assembly
of Optical Microstructures
image of Nanofiber Yarns Fabricated by Immersion Rotary Jet Spinning
Nanofiber Yarns
Fabricated by Immersion Rotary Jet Spinning
image of Science in Three Dimensions Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
Science in Three Dimensions
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists
image of Spreading MRSEC Technology Internationally to Create New High-tech Jobs at Home
Spreading MRSEC Technology Internationally
to Create New High-tech Jobs at Home
image of New.Mech Workshop for the New England Mechanics Community
New.Mech Workshop
for the New England Mechanics Community

2016

Octobot
An Integrated Design and Fabrication Strategy for Entirely Soft, Autonomous Robots
Crystallization of Undercooled Liquids
Materials to Improve Drug Bioavailability
Biomimetic 4-D Printing
Lewis and Mahadevan
Holiday Science Lecture for Families
A Grain of Salt: Isn't it Ionic
College and Career Awareness for Middle School Students
Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
New England Complex Fluids Workshop
Knowledge Transfer and Community Building
Solchroma Technologies
Startup Company Formation
Shared Experimental Facilities
Aerotech Multi-Material 3-D Printer

2015

Amorphous Salt
The Microfluidic Nebulator
Soft Fiber Sensor Fabrication
Multicore-shell printing of textile-mounted, capacitive strain sensors
Hopping Towards a Better Soft Robot
A 3-D-printed, functionally graded soft robot powered by combustion
Sensors for Cellular Bioenergetics
Integrating nanocalorimetry with microfluidics
New Nanofiber Production Platform
Nanofibers fabrication from an immersion rotary jet-spinning system
3-D Printing and Soft Robotics Workshop
Artemis Project Girls Summer Camp
Developing a Culture of Innovation
MRSEC-inspired course on innovation and entrepreneurship
Shared Experimental Facilities
EnvisonTec Aureus 3-D printer
Shared Experimental Facilities
Andor/Yokogawa spinning-disk confocal microscope
Ultra-Stable Metallic Glasses
New in-situ method to study the thermal and mechanical behavior of metallic glasses
Paper-Based Electronics and MEMS
Controlled ink wetting and reactivity on paper yields defect-free devices
New Unimorph-Based Devices
Using aligned fibers to design deflection directions of dielectric elastomers
Measuring Concentration Dynamics in Porous Media
Development of new tools to observe ionic concentration in porous media
Shared Experimental Facilities
TA OSP-ARES-G2 Rheometer
Start-Up Company Formation
GnuBIO acquired by BioRad

2014

Electrogels
Electrically Collapsible Hydrogels with Enhanced
Mechanical Toughness
Magnetic Gels
Biphasic Design Enhances the Mechanical Properties
of Magnetically Responsive Hydrogel
Pull Spinning
Novel Technique for Production of Nanofibers
Sensor Skin
A Platform for Highly Stretchable,
Biocompatible, Transparent Sensors
Inducing Chirality
Buckling-induced Reversible Symmetry Breaking
and Amplification of Chirality
Odd Performance Under Pressure
Soft Auxetic Materials with Negative Poisson's Ratio
Printing Tissue
3D Bioprinting of Vascularized,
Heterogeneous Cell-Laden Tissue Constructs
Impacting Drops
Drops Skating and Bouncing Off Surfaces
Mentoring Veterans
Building a Long-Term Support Network
Shared Experimental Facilities
New TA Discovery Rheometers

2013

Complexity from Simplicity
Very Fine Art: Stunningly Beautiful Microscale Sculptures
Aizenberg, Mahadevan
Hydroglyphics: Visualizing Patterns from Wetting Contrast
Writing Secret Messages with Water
Aizenberg
Science, Engineering, and Technology in the City
A Career Exploration Day for High School Girls
Lewis
Photonic Droplets:
Non-toxic Displays, Cosmetics, and Paints
Manoharan, Weitz
Liquid Embedded Elastomers
New Bendable and Stretchable Electronics
Wood
Metaphase Spindle as an Active Liquid Crystal
Experimental Test of Theory
Needleman

2012

2011

2010

Aberration Corrected Electron Microscopes
New Tools in the Shared Experimental Facilities
Catalysis for CO2 Reduction
Aspuru-Guzik, Betley, Friend
Entropy Favors Asymmetry in Colloidal Self-Assembly
Guangnan Meng, Natalie Arkus, Michael P. Brenner, and Vinothan N. Manoharan
Ferro-Sponges for Drug and Cell Delivery
Xuanhe Zhao, Jaeyun Kim, and David Mooney
Pneumatic Belt
Xin Chen, Coskun Kocabas, and George M. Whitesides
Sequential Adsorption Model of Microfiber Clustering
Jayson Paulose, David R. Nelson, and Joanna Aizenberg


(Supported under the auspices of NSF-MRSEC [DMR-0820484])

2010

Spindle Nanosurgery by Femtosecond Laser
Valeria Nuzzo, Eric Mazur, Jan Brugues, and Dan Needleman

2009

Soft Electrostatic Patches
Robert J. Wood and Michael Petralia
New Paradigm for Shared Experimental Facilities
TA Instruments Center for Thermal and Mechanical Analysis
New Ordered Hierarchical Helical Assemblies
Boaz Pokroy, Sung H. Kang, L. Mahadevan, and Joanna Aizenberg
Combinatorial Nano-Calorimetry on Ti-Ni-Zr
Joost J. Vlassak and Patrick J. McCluskey
Osmotically-Driven Flows in Microchannels Separated by a Semi-Permeable Membrane
N. Michele Holbrook and Jinkee Lee (Harvard); Kaare Hartvig Jensen, Thomas Bohr, and Henrik Bruus (Technical University of Denmark)
Engineering the Optical Properties of Colloidal Suspensions
Adeline Perro, Guangnan Meng, and Vinothan N. Manoharan
Cooking and Science: A Conversation on Creativity
Ferran Adrià (El Bulli, Barcelona, Spain)
Tracking Cells in Three Dimensions
Prakriti Tayalia, David Mooney, and Eric Mazur
Muira-Foldable Thin Films
Jin-Oh You, Radhika Nagpal, and Debra Auguste

2008

2007

Gender Equity Workshop
Cynthia M. Friend
A Biophysical and Biomechanical Analysis of Worm Motile Behavior
Aravintham Samuel and Lakshminarayan Mahadevan
Optimal Vein Density in Artificial and Real Leaves
M. Zwienicki, N.M. Holbrook, L. Mahadevan, and D.A. Weitz
How Bumps on Whale Flippers Delay Stall
Ernst van Nierop, Silas Alben, and Michael P. Brenner
Optical Tweezers
Mara Prentiss
Probing Neuronal Origin of Behavior in C. Elegans
Samuel Chung, Aravinthan Samuel, Eric Mazur, and Jonathan Kamler

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001