Congratulations to our postdoctoral research associate Dr. Komal Chawla and graduate student Abhishek Gupta for their work on architected carbon nanotube foams that exhibit unusual synergistic enhancement of mechanical properties that are desirable for protective …
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Congratulations to Claire Griesbach for receiving the Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Award
Congratulations to Claire Griesbach for receiving the Department of Energy Graduate Student Research Award as one of the 44 outstanding graduate student awardees.
Professor Thevamaran Receives 2022 Early Career Faculty Award from NASA
This prestigious early career award will support our work developing advanced composite materials with exceptional mechanical properties and thermal stability for dimensionally stable structural components to be used in future large telescopes and space structures.
Our Research is featured in On Wisconsin magazine’s Fall 2022 issue
The article can be seen here: https://onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/on_campus/better-than-bulletproof/
Our paper on Exceptional-point-based accelerometers with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio is published in Nature
Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Jizhe Cai and our collaborators from Wesleyan University, Rodion Kononchuk, Fred Ellis, and Tsampikos Kottos, for getting our work published in Nature.
We were featured on Spectrum News 1: Team at UW Madison creates material six times tougher than Kevlar
Our lab has been featured on Spectrum News 1 with our recent invention of a nano fibrous mats that is superior to other conventional and nanostructured protective materials. Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Jizhe Cai who …
New lightweight super material can battle bullets, deflect space debris
Our recent study on carbon nanotube mats reinforced with kevlar nanofibers published on ACS Nano has been highlighted in a UW-Madison article and several news outlets.
Abhishek receives Mentorship Excellence Award from the Undergraduate Research Scholars Program
Ph.D. candidate Abhishek Gupta received an Exceptional Mentorship Award from the Undergraduate Research Scholars (URS) program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for the 2020-2021 academic year! He received this award for going above and beyond to introduce …
Welcome Bhanugopan and Riley
We welcome Bhanugopan and Riley who joined our lab in Fall 2021. Bhanugopan is a PhD candidate in Engineering Mechanics, focusing on the dynamic behavior of hierarchical and nanostructured materials. Riley is an Engineering Mechanics …
Professor Thevamaran receives Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering Education
Professor Thevamaran received the 2021 Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russel Johnston, Jr., Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award. This award, sponsored by McGraw-Hill, is given annually by the Mechanics Division of the American Society for …