Suo Group
Mechanics of Materials
and Structures
ZHIGANG SUO
Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor
of Mechanics and Materials School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences and Kavli Insitute for Bionano Science and
Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Phone: 617-495-3789 email: suo@seas.harvard.edu
Room 309, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street (Map)
Assistant: Ms. LaShanda Banks, (617) 496-1461,
LBanks@seas.harvard.edu, Room 318
Pierce Hall twitter
curriculum vitae
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research
- soft materials, active
materials, metals, ceramics, polymers, elastomers, gels, composites
- stretchable electronics,
ionotronics, batteries, artificial muscles, artificial nerves, artificial
axons
- fracture, plasticity,
elasticity, polarization, diffusion, solid-state reaction
- mechanics, rheology,
electrodynamics, thermodynamics
papers & videos
- Electroluminescence
of giant stretchability.
Advanced Materials.
- Phase-transforming
and switchable metamaterials. Extreme Mechanics Letters
- Ionic
cable.
Video (YouTube). Video (youku). Extreme
Mechanics Letters
- Elastic leak of a
seal.
Extreme Mechanics Letters
- Brownian motion of
molecular probes in supercooled liquids, Physical
Review Letters
- Optomechanics of
soft materials. Journal of
Applied Mechanics
- Ionic skin.
Advanced Materials.
- Stretchable,
transparent, ionic conductors, Supplementary
Materials and Videos. (Online
discussion). Science
- Highly stretchable
and tough hydrogels. Supplementary
Information and Movies. Nature
- Large plastic
deformation in high-capacity lithium-ion batteries caused by charge and
discharge. Journal of American Ceramic Society
- Theory of dielectric
elastomers capable of giant deformation of actuation, Physical Review
Letters
- Using indentation to
characterize the poroelasticity of gels. Applied Physics Letters
- A theory of coupled
diffusion and large deformation in polymeric gels. Journal of the
Mechanics and Physics of Solids
- Full list of papers
reviews
- Mechanics of stretchable
electronics and soft machines
- Theory
of dielectric elastomers (in Chinese)
- Theory of dielectric
elastomers (in English)
- Micromechanics of
macroelectronics
- New directions in
mechanics
- Forces that drive
self-assembly on solid surfaces
- Stress and strain in
ferroelectrics
- Evolving material
structures of small feature sizes
- Models for
metal/ceramic interface fracture
- Remarks on
crack-bridging concepts
- Mechanics concepts
for failure in ferroelectrics
long reviews
- Reliability of
interconnect structures
- Motions of
microscopic surfaces in materials
- Mixed-mode cracking
in layered materials
seminars
- suo group seminar
- Seminars of the
International Center of Applied Mechanics (ICAM)
- harvard applied mechanics colloquium
- widely
applied mathematics seminar
- squishy physics & pizza seminar
teaching notes
- Engineering Sciences 181 Engineering Thermodynamics
- Engineering Sciences 240 Solid Mechanics
- Engineering Sciences 241 Advanced Elasticity, with emphasis on thermodynamics, large deformation, and soft active materials
- Engineering Sciences 246 Plasticity
- Engineering Sciences 247 Fracture
- Engineering Sciences 242r, Spring 2007 Fracture Mechanics of Thin Films and Composite Materials
- Engineering Sciences 242r, Spring 2004 Evolving Small Structures
- Notes on Linear Algebra, with emphasis on vectors, scalars, and tensors
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