A post-doctoral position is immediately available in a research group by Prof. Kyoungsoo Park at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. The successful applicant should have strong research background on computational fracture mechanics associated with cohesive zone modeling, contact mechanics, microstructure computation, hygro-thermo-mechanical analysis, parallel computing or related research area. Specific research direction can be discussed. If interested, please contact Dr.

We are looking for a talented, self-motivated, and enthusiastic student with a BSc or MSc degree in mechanical or materials engineering. Students with strong background in crystal plasticity and computational mechanics are recommended to apply.

Prospective candidates will be assessed based on how well they meet the following criteria:

§  Excellent degree in their relevant discipline;

§  Excellent written and spoken communication skills (iBT TOFEL score must be higher than 86, with no individual score below 20)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08891-x We report the discovery of structural coloration emanating in precise register with expanded pigmented chromatocytes. Concurrently, using an annotated squid chromatophore proteome together with microscopy, we identify a likely biochemical component of this reflective coloration as reflectin proteins distributed in sheath cells that envelop each chromatocyte.

For more details on the job opportunity, see here
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/recruit/mat_20190329.html

For more details on this ambitious project, see here
https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Hundreds-of-years-worth-of-rare-earths-…

Fatigue of hydrogels

Ruobing Bai (1,2), Zhigang Suo (1)

(1) John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, Harvard University

(2) Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Soft, Body-Integrated Microsystems Technologies

Franklin Institute Symposium honoring Dr. John A. Rogers 

Recipient of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering

The 2019 Franklin Institute Laureate Symposium will be held at Temple University to honor Dr. John A. Rogers who received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering for pioneering the engineering of flexible and stretchable electronic systems for e-health and exploratory neuroscience.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics at Drexel University is organizing an International Symposium on Additive Manufacturing on Friday, April 12, 2019.

The subject of the meeting is Multi-Dimensional 3-4-D Printing of Metallic Materials

https://4dprinting.mem.drexel.edu/

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14786435.2019.1582850

Abstract