Whitaker chair professor @MIT; scientist, educator, entrepreneur; #softmaterials #mechanics #health #sustainability; co-founder @SanaHeal @Sonologi @Magnendo.
Joined January 2018
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Excited to share that our Editor-Invited Review, titled "Mechano-Diffusion of Particles in Hydrogels", is just published in Extreme Mechanics Letter. This is a joint work in collaboration with Prof. Jingjie Yeo @JingjieYeo at Cornell. Link: lnkd.in/gY6yFqtp
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🕒 Time matters in elastomer fracture
🌡️ Stretch rate and temperature shape crack growth
⚡ Loading level sets bond tension and rupture kinetics
🧩 Entanglements modify the fracture response
🔁 Reframing vc–Gc: load as cause, crack speed as effect
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Congrats to @AIHealthMIT PI Elazer @EdelmanLab for receiving the 2026-2027 Killian Award, @MIT's highest faculty honor! "He is a clinician of the highest order...a teacher of greatest passion...and an engineer whose work has reached around the globe." news.mit.edu/2026/elazer-ede…
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⏳ Less than 2 weeks to go! 🚀Join the #AIXSummit to explore how AI is reshaping our world. Don't miss our incredible lineup: 🎙️ Keynotes: @ylecun & @AndrewWLo 🛋️ Fireside Chat: @NobelPrize David MacMillan
Secure your spot today 👉aafuturefoundation.org/aix20… #AI
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Mar 26
I will give a talk @Penn tomorrow (3/26). Welcome if you are around.
@MSEatPen is excited to welcome @ProfZhaoMIT, @MIT as our seminar guest.
Dr. Zhao will present his talk, "Merging Humans and Machines: Innovation and Translation."
Thursday, March 26, 2026 - 10:30 am Wu and Chen Auditorium - Levine Hall
ALT Dr. Xuanhe Zhao, MIT Professor and guest seminar speaker for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
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Mar 22
🌬️ Flow-induced reconfiguration, made simple
A new FE approach couples corotational plates with a simplified drag model.
⚡ Faster than full CFD–FE coupling
🧪 Validated on plates, disks & kirigami sheets
📄 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2024.1…
#FSI #mechanics #EML
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Mar 16
🌍 Do slip-weakening law shapes matter?
Even with the same fracture energy, the shape of the friction law changes rupture dynamics.
⚡ Different shapes → distinct slip-velocity peaks
🧱 Different responses to barriers
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#earthquake #fracture
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Mar 2
Excited to share our new paper, “Trapping Polymer Entanglements via Prolonged Initiation,” now published in Macromolecules — and honored to be selected as an ACS Editor’s Choice article.
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Feb 24
💡 Photo-mechanical response of azobenzene-filled elastomers
UV light triggers trans–cis isomerization → macroscopic deformation or stiffening.
🧪 Experiments on azobenzene–silicone composites
📊 Data supports photo-viscoelastic modeling
📄 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2024.1…
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Join the AASF AIX Summit East 2026 student poster info session THIS FRIDAY, Feb 6 at 7 PM ET. Learn how to submit your AI research poster & what to expect at the Summit.
Register now: buff.ly/cHVmHq2
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Jan 19
🧩 Designing DMMCs with domain-knowledge enhanced ML
🔧 140k Al–SiC composite architectures
📊 High-throughput FE data
🧠 Deep residual NN genetic algorithm
🎯 Optimizes modulus & Poisson’s ratio across volume fractions
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#composites #ML #EML
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Jan 6
🕷️ How do spiders hear so well?
A new study shows that spiders’ hairs tune acoustic impedance, enabling efficient sound energy transfer from air to body.
📐 Hair length & angle matter
🧪 Verified with a bionic hair array
📄 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2024.1…
#biomimetics #acoustics
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From all of us at MIT, Happy New Year! ✨
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16 Dec 2025
Our long review article is online, at Chemical Reviews, titled, Thermodynamic and Molecular Origins of Crack Resistance in Polymer Networks. @ZheqiChen
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15 Dec 2025
🧬 Rapid prediction of grain boundary evolution with generative ML
A cGAN trained on MD data enables fast, accurate predictions in nanomaterials.
⚙️ Trained on MD simulations
🧠 Captures morphology atomic details
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5 Dec 2025
Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, an Institute Professor, MIT’s executive vice provost, and former head of @MITChemE, has been named dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, effective January 16.
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3 Dec 2025
🛰️ Thermo-mechanical metamaterial for stable microwave antennas
Lattice sandwich design gives near-zero thermal warping under non-uniform heating
📊 99.7% less thermal warping vs bilayer
📡 Antenna tests: gain, beam offset & VSWR much more stable
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28 Nov 2025
I will give two talks at #MRS #F25MRS in #Boston.
Mon, Dec 01, 11-11:30, Hynes 109: #Bioadhesive #ultrasound imaging and closeloop therapy. #BAUS.
Mon, Dec 01, 3:45-4:15, Hynes 104: Adhesive #nonfibrotic interfaces with extreme #hydrogels.
Look forward to meeting many of you!
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