05/2022: [Promotion] Qiming is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
05/2022: [Graduation] Kunhao successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Mechanics and Additive Manufacturing of Bioinspired Polymers”. Congratulations, Dr. Yu!
05/2022: [Award] Qiming receives 2022 EMI Leonardo da Vinci award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
04/2022: [Press] Our research is featured on USC News: Find opportunities to ‘upcycle’ and reuse plastics in novel ways.
04/2022: [Award] Audie receives Viterbi Outstanding Mentor Award. Congratulations!
04/2022: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering of the University of Florida.
03/2022: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at the APS March Meeting 2022. Talk title: Constructive Adaptation in Response to Typically Destructive Environmental Stressors.
02/2022: [Paper] Yanchu’s paper about the mechanics of elastomer lattices is published in JMPS.
10/2021: [Service] Qiming becomes an editorial board member of SusMat.
10/2021: [Service] Qiming becomes an editorial board member of Frontiers in Biomaterials Science.
10/2021: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Northwestern University.
10/2021: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk for the USC Manufacturing Day Event.
05/2021: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at the IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics of Smart Tough Gels.
05/2021: [Award] Qiming receives ONR Young Investigator Award. [link]
05/2021: [Graduation] An successfully defended for her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Harness Microorganisms to Design Resilient Engineering Materials”. Congratulations, Dr. Xin!
04/2021: [Award] Kunhao receives NAMRC 49 / MSEC 2021 NSF Student Support Award. Congratulations!
02/2021: [Press] An’s paper about bacteria-assisted self-growing composites is highlighted by Nature: Microbial makers help humans to build tough stuff.
01/2021: [Paper] An and Yipin’s paper about bacteria-assisted self-growing composites is accepted for publication in Advanced Materials.
12/2020: [Award] Qiming receives Orange County Engineering Council (OCEC) Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2020.
12/2020: [Paper] Kunhao and Justin’s paper about the Photosynthesis of 3D-printed artificial trees is accepted for publication in PNAS.
11/2020: [Service] Qiming co-organizes the annual event of the ASME technical committee of Mechanics of Soft Materials.
11/2020: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
10/2020: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at the School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering of the University of Akron.
09/2020: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk for the USC Advanced Manufacturing Seminar.
06/2020: [Paper] An’s paper about bacteria-induced healing is published in Materials Horizons. [link]
03/2020: [Paper] An’s paper about extrinsic self-healing mechanics is published in JMPS. [link]
03/2020: [Paper] Kunhao’s paper about fracture-healing enabled transformable lattice structures is published in NPG Asia Materials, a nature journal. [link]
03/2020: [Honor] Qiming is appointed as the Stephen Schrank Early Career Chair in USC Civil and Environmental Engineering.
03/2020: [Award] Qiming receives NSF CAREER award. [link]
02/2020: [Paper] Audie’s paper about magnetoactive acoustic metamaterials is published in Research, a partner journal of Science. [link]
01/2020: [Award] Qiming receives the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) 2020 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award.
01/2020: [Service] Qiming co-organizes the first Southern California Mechanics Workshop [link]
12/2019: [Paper] Kunhao’s paper about self-healing thermoplastic elastomers is published in JMPS [link].
11/2019: [Service] Qiming co-organizes symposia at ASME IMECE 2019: “Mechanics of Soft Materials” and “Mechanics of 3D-Printed Materials”.
10/2019: [Service] Qiming co-organizes symposia at SES 2019: “Mechanics of Soft Materials” and “Mechanics of 3D-Printed Materials”.
06/2019: [Service] Qiming co-organizes a symposium at ASCE EMI 2019: “4th Mini-Symposium on 4M (Modeling of Multiphysics-Multiscale-Multifunctional) Engineering Materials and Structures”. The co-organizers include Dr. Yong-Rak Kim, Dr. Chung Song, Dr. Huiming Yin, Dr. Xiaoyu Song.
05/2019: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at Nissan Technical Center North America.
04/2019: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk in the department of NanoEngineering of UCSD. Thank Dr. Sheng Xu for the invitation.
04/2019: [Journal Club] Qiming is invited to lead the iMechanica Journal Club for April 2019: Self-Healing Soft Materials: from Theoretical Modeling to Additive Manufacturing. [link]
02/2019: [Paper] Kunhao’s paper about Additive Manufacturing of self-healing elastomers is published in NPG Asia Materials, a Nature journal [link].
12/2018: [Paper] An’s paper about electrically-induced interfacial bonding is published in JMPS [link].
11/2018: [Paper] Kunhao’s paper about light-activated self-healing is published in JMPS [link].
11/2018: [Service] Qiming co-organizes symposia at ASME IMECE 2018: “Mechanics of soft materials”, “Mechanics of 3D-printed materials”, and “Material Processing of Flexible Electronics, Sensors, and Devices”.
10/2018: [Award] Kunhao is featured as the outstanding RA of the academic year 2018-2019. Check CEE news: [link]
08/2018: [Paper] Kunhao’s paper about self-healing polymers is published in JMPS [link].
05/2018: [Service] Qiming co-organizes a symposium at ASCE EMI 2018: “Mechanics of highly deformable bodies”.
04/2018: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk in the Department of Materials Science Engineering at UCLA. Thank Dr. Ximin He for the invitation.
04/2018: [Paper] Kunhao’s paper about magnetoactive lattices is published in Advanced Materials. Viterbi news: [link].
03/2018: [Award] Kunhao is featured on USC CEE department website as the featured research assistant of March 2018. [link]
01/2018: [Service] Qiming is elected as the new editor of ASME Applied Mechanics Division Technical Committee of Mechanics of Soft Materials. According to the policy, Qiming will serve as the editor in 2018, secretary in 2019, vice chair in 2020, and chair in 2021.
11/2017: [Service] Qiming co-organizes a symposium at ASME IMECE: “Material Processing of Flexible Electronics, Sensors, and Devices”.
10/2017: [Service] Qiming serves as a guest editor for a special issue of the journal “Polymers”: “Mechanics of Emerging Polymers with Unprecedented Networks”. Co-editors include Dr. Ying Li (University of Connecticut) and Dr. Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado, Boulder). Check the special issue: [link].
10/2017: [Award] Qiming receives AFOSR Young Investigator award. [link]
09/2017: [Paper] Tingyao’s paper about hierarchical lattices is published in Soft Matter and selected as the inside front cover. [link]
08/2017: [Workshop] Qiming is invited to attend an NSF workshop at the University of Pittsburgh: “Accelerating NSF Research in Additive Manufacturing toward Industrial Applications”.
08/2017: [Paper] Zheming and Kunhao’s paper about self-healing mechanics of nanocomposite gels is published in JMPS. [link]
07/2017: [Service] Qiming co-organizes a symposium at SES conference 2017: “Nonlinear response of highly deformable structures”.
06/2017: [Service] Qiming co-organizes symposia at ASCE EMI 2017: “Mechanics of Biologically Inspired Materials and Structures” and “Mechanics of Soft Materials”.
03/2017: [Service] Qiming co-organizes a symposium at APS March Meeting 2017: “Physics of Bioinspired Materials”.
01/2017: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk in a Caltech workshop organized by Kaushik Bhattacharya.
10/2016: [Service] Qiming co-organizes symposia at SES meeting 2016: “Mechanics of polymers with dynamic bonds”, “Mechanics of Bioinspired soft machines”, “Mechanics of largely deformable structures”.
09/2016: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at the University of California, Irvin. Thank Dr. Lizhi Sun and Dr. Mo Li for the invitation.
09/2016: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Southern California. Thank Dr. Néstor Pérez-Arancibia for the invitation.
09/2016: [Paper] Qiming’s paper about negative thermal expansion is featured in Science. [link]
09/2016: [Paper] Qiming’s paper about negative thermal expansion is published in Physical Review Letters. [link]
09/2016: [Paper] Yanhui’s paper about elastomer lattices is accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. Viterbi news: [link].
09/2016: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk to USC Trustees. He talks about how his lab is doing research in additive manufacturing from fundamentals to applications.
08/2016: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk to the Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research.
04/2016: [Paper] Qiming and Zheming’s paper about nanocomposite hydrogels is published in JMPS. [link]
04/2016: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at HRL Laboratories. Thank Dr. Tobias Schaedler for the invitation.
03/2016: [Service] Qiming co-organizes a symposium at APS March Meeting 2016: “Physics of Bioinspired Materials”.
02/2016: [Paper] Qiming’s review paper about the surface instability is published in MRS Bulletin.[link]
01/2016: [Teach] Qiming’s course CE599 Advanced Elasticity of Solids was highly rated by students, around 5.0/5.0.
10/2015: [Talk] Qiming is invited to give a talk at USC Biomedical Engineering. Thank Dr. Stan Yamashiro for the invitation.
09/2015: [Outreach] Qiming visits Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School to introduce his work on how to use additive manufacturing techniques to design artificial organs. Here is the online report from USC Viterbi: The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce holds its annual Principal for a Day event to create ties between the business and education communities.
08/2015: The website is officially online.