New 3D-Printing Method Enables Color-Changing, Stress-Responsive Materials
A multidisciplinary team of researchers have successfully developed a cutting-edge method to 3D print cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), opening …
Yang in Inaugural Nat Geo 33 Extraordinary Changemaker List
Shu Yang is named as one of National Geographic’s 33 Extraordinary Changemakers who are creating a better future for the …
A Learning Experience
As UPenn Engineering Postdoctoral Researcher Kun-Hao Yu transitions from his role to an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental …
PhD Candidate Awarded Grant for Coral Reef Restoration
Sophia Jackson, the 1st year PhD student in the Yang group, has been awarded the 2024 ForEverglades Research Enhancement Grant …
Toward Carbon-negative architecture
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Stuart Weitzman School of Design and the School of Engineering and Applied Science …
Manipulating Materials, Shapes and Chemistry To Create Climate Change-Fighting Inventions
Shu Yang looks at her research through the lens of biomimicry: life forms and natural shapes have inspired her unique …
Engineered Magic: Wooden Seed Carriers Mimic the Behavior of Self-Burying Seed
How seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. During rain or high humidity, the corkscrew-like stalk of Erodium unwinds …
Kirigami Structures Pull Water from the Air
Climate change is forcing us to reshape our relationship with water. Collecting atmospheric water could help us adapt to both …
Kirigami Breast Reconstruction
For many breast cancer patients, the road to recovery may present hidden complications related to breast reconstruction following a mastectomy …
Snapping metacaps propel soft robot design
When a metacap “snaps”, it pops open and closed, pushing air back and forth. This snapping allows a soft robot …
An adhesive bandage not only bonds tightly but also releases quickly.
Most adhesives for wound dressings have either been too weak to keep wounds sealed, or too strong to be painlessly …