2024:
- Our startup PoLE LLC was launched, commercializing our developed liquid-mediated manufacturing technologies of functional films and structures for electronics.
- Mengtian was awarded the Chinese Government Award for Self-Finance Students Abroad.
2023:
- "NEWS IN BRIEF: WANT TO BUY A HUMANLIKE ‘SOFT ROBOT’? UVA SHARES MANUFACTURING SECRET" by UVA Today
- "UVA team’s discovery could be game changer for football helmets" by NBC29
"Discovery Could Make Football Much Safer" by UVA Today
"UVA Engineer Innovates a Liquid Safety Cushioning Technology" by UVA Engineering
- Our work on Nanofluidics enabled liquid foam cushion published in Advanced Materials is selected into "Rising Stars" series.
- Mengtian Yin successfully defended his PhD thesis and became Dr. Yin.
- Haozhe won the Chinese Government Award for Self-Finance Students Abroad.
- Qingchang was named the Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at LANL.
- Ziyu Passed his qualifying exam.
- Haohe Zhang successfully defended his PhD thesis and became Dr. Zhang.
2022:
- Dr. Xu is selected to receive 2023 SES Young Investigator Medal.
-Mengtian received the NSF-Student Poster Travel Award to Attend 2022 ASME-IMECE.
- Qingchang received Travel Award for attending the International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM10).
- Dr. Xu was invited to participate in the 2022 China-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium (CAFOE).
- Congratulations to both Yue and Qingchang who were awarded the Chinese Government Award for Self-Finance Students Abroad ! So far, all three PhD students (Yuan, Qingchang, and Yue) graduated from our group were selected by this award.
- Mengtian and Haozhe passed their PhD proposal defense.
- Our work published in Matter is selected as a free featured article in Volume 5, issue 1, 2022.
2021:
12/2021: Baoxing is appointed the Editor of iMechanica Journal Club for the year of 2022-2023.
12/2021: Yue's poster is selected the most informative poster by 2021 ASME-IMECE.
11/2021: Yue Zhang is awarded Student Poster Travel Award to attend 2021 virtual ASME-IMECE
09/2021: Welcome Ziyu Chen, a new graduate student.
08/2021: Yue Zhang successfully defended his PhD thesis with impressive achievements and became Dr. Zhang. Congratulations!
04/2021: Baoxing gives an invited talk in IEEE-NEMS
03/2021: Baoxing gives an invited talk in TMS annual meeting
2020:
12/2020: Qingchang's poster presented in 2021 IMECE is awarded the runner up of the Poster Competition, sponsored by Sandia National Lab, US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) and ASME Committee on Computing and Applied Mechanics (CONCAM), and also is selected the most attractive poster by IMECE.
10/2020: Baoxing gives a department colloquium in the department of physics at VCU
09/2020: Yuan's work on solid-liquid interactions at a nanoconfined environment is published in PNAS.
09/2020: Both Qingchang and Yue are awarded NSF Student Poster Travel Award to attend 2020 virtual ASME-IMECE.
09/2020: Qingchang's work on crumpling and assembling mechanics of composite particles by droplet drying is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
07/2020: Prof. Baoxing Xu is promoted to associate with tenure, effective July 25th.
06/2020: Our work on Data Science Activities is funded by NSF supplemental support. Thanks NSF!
05/2020: Dr. Baoxing Xu is selected to receive the 2020 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award.
05/2020: Yue's collaborative work of chemomechanics to study dissolution of porous silicon microneedle in liquid is published in ACS Nano.
05/2020: Dr. Baoxing Xu is awarded MAE department Young Researcher of the Year.
05/2020: Qingchang is awarded MAE department Outstanding Graduate Student. Congratulations!
04/2020: Qingchang successfully defended his PhD thesis with impressive achievements. Congratulations!
04/2020: Dr. Baoxing Xu is awarded the 2020 ONR YIP. Thanks ONR for the support to our work.
02/2020: Yue and Mengtian's work on capillary transfer of soft films is published in PNAS.
01/2020: Haozhe's work on soft-hard integration mechanics and its enabled metasurface design is published in International Journal of Solids and Structures.
2019:
12/2019: Mengtian's work on 3D printing technique on a curved substrate and application in electronics-integrated microneedle patch system is published in Advanced Healthcare Materials and is also featured as back cover.
09/2019: Qingchang's work on liquid evaporation induced large deformation, server instability and mechanical assembly of 2D materials is published in Journal of the Mechanics of Physics and Solids.
09/2019: Yuan is awarded NSF Student Poster Travel Award to attend IMECE 2019
08/2019: Yue is awarded 2019 Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award to attend IMECE 2019
08/2019: Our work on soft-hard integration is published in Proceeding of the Royal Society A
07/2019: Our mechanics-driven nanomanufacturing of 3D plasmonic structure is funded by NSF-CMMI-AM.
07/2019: Yue's work on chemomechanics of transfer printing in liquid is published in International Journal of Solids and Structures
07/2019: Our team work on extreme mechanics-driven nanomanufacturing of 3D structures is published in Nano Letters
05/2019: Our work on thermal response of mechanically deformed and water confined heterostructures has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and is also featured as a Supplementary Cover.
04/2019: Our collaborative work on solid-liquid interactions and wrinkling of multilayer nanosheets has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Advanced Materials, respectively.
04/2019: Yue is awarded MAE department Outstanding Graduate Student. Congratulations!
04/2019: Baoxing gave a keynote talk in International Workshop of Young Scholars in Heat Transfer and Energy. Thanks for the invitation from Prof. Xiulin Ruan and Prof. Bingyang Cao.
03/2019: Yuan successfully defended his PhD thesis and becomes Dr. Gao. Congratulations! Yuan made several breakthroughs in the thermal transport of nanomaterials in response to mechanical loading and explored their unique applications in sensor design. Wish Yuan has a bright future in his career!
01/2019: Our collaborative work on buckling of beam in a cylindrical constraint is published in the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.
01/2019: Yuan is awarded the 2018 Chinese Government Award for Self-Finance Students Abroad. Great congratulations!
01/2019: Our work on manufacturing of electronic devices is funded by Virginia Microelectronics Consortium. Thanks VMEC!
2018:
11/2018: Yuan's work on mechanically tunnable thermal transparency is published in ACS Nano.
10/2018: Yue's work is featured in the inside front cover of Nanoscale.
08/2018: Haozhe and Mengtian joined our group as graduate students. Welcome these two outstanding students!
07/2018: Our proposal on nanofluidics under extreme conditions is funded by NSF-CBET-FD. Thanks NSF!
07/2018: Yue's work that addressed the competition between liquid infiltration and solid nanopore deformation in a liquid-porous system is published in Nanoscale as a communication.
07/2018: Baoxing gave an invited talk in WCCM 2018. Thanks to Prof.Dibakar Datta's invitation!
07/2018: Qingchang's work is selected as inside front cover of Soft Matter.
07/2018: Yue and Yuan passed the qualifying exam and proposal defense exam, respectively.
06/2018: Our educational work on the development of teaching tools for MAE 2300 Statics is funded by Educational Innovation Award. Thanks SEAS!
06/2018: Our work on soft-hard material integration is funded by Research Innovation Award. Thanks SEAS!
06/2018: Our work on heterogeneously architected 2D structures is accepted by PNAS.
06/2018: Our collaborative work on chemomechanics-driven transfer printing technique is accepted by PNAS.
05/2018: Qingchang's work on self-folding of 2-D graphene by liquid evaporation is published by Soft Matter.
05/2018: Our work on buckling and post-buckling of hollow nanospheres is accepted by Carbon.
04/2018: Yuan is awarded MAE department Outstanding Graduate Student. Congratulations!
04/2018: Baoxing gave a department seminar at the University of Nevada, Reno. Thanks for Prof. Wanliang Shan's invitation.
04/2018: Baoxing co-organized a symposium "Deformable Atomically Thin Materials: Mechanics, Materials and Devices" at MRS Spring Meeting held in Phoenix, Arizona.
04/2018: Yuan's work on the novel design of pressure sensor enabled by thermal transport of 1D-2D heterostructures is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations!
03/2018: Baoxing gave an invited talk in the symposium of colloid science at the 255th ACS National Meeting.
03/2018: Yuan is awarded the John Bell McGaughy Graduate Fellowship, and there are only four awardees across the entire Engineering School at UVa. Congratulations!
01/2018: Qingchang's work on evaporation-assisted self-folding of 1-D nanomaterials is published by The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Congratulations!
01/2018: Our collaborative work on design and manufacturing of functional sensors is funded by the Center for Engineering in Medicine. We look forward to exploring this exciting collaboration!
01/2018: Qingchang's collabrative paper on polymer sensor is published by Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations to the team!
2017:
12/2017: Yue's paper on folding patterned graphene by evaporation was accepted by Journal of Applied Mechanics. Congratulations!
09/2017: Yuan's paper is published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations!
08/2017: Yue's paper is published in Extreme Mechanics Letters. Congratulations!
08/2017: Our group proposal on chemomechanics in manufacturing is funded by NSF-MOMS. Thanks NSF-MOMS!
07/2017: Farewell party to Weizhu Yang. Thanks Weizhu's great inputs to our initiative research directions including soft-hard integration, unusual porous materials and heterostructures. Weizhu shows talented skills to tackle these topics with several papers published in top journals during his visit. Wish Weizhu a smooth defense for his PhD degree at NWPU and successful academic career at NWPU.
07/2017: Baoxing gave an invited talk at 2017 SES conference.
05/2017: Our group work on mechanics-driven manufacturing field is awarded two Research Innovation Awards as PI and co-PI respectively. We look forward to exploring exciting results in this new area.
05/2017: Yuan's paper is selected as Back inside cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces. Congratulations!
05/2017: Our educational work is funded by Educational Innovation Awards. With this award, we will develop a learning platform that integrates symbolic manipulation, computation and visualization approaches to deliver mechanics courses.
04/2017: Qingchang is selected as MAE department Outstanding Graduate Student!
04/2017: Our collaborative work on multiscale mechanics modeling in manufacturing is funded by Jeffress Trust. More work will continue in this area!
03/2017: Baoxing gave a department seminar at VCU Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering department. Thanks for Prof. Hong Zhao's invitation.
01/2017: Farewell party to Dr. Zongzhan Gao. Thanks Zongzhan's great contribution to the group for his past 1-year stay at UVa. We will keep continous collabration by following our several research topics. Also wish Zongzhan a great success for his career at NWPU.
01/2017: Weizhu's soft-hard materials integration paper is published in Journal of the Mechanics of Physics and Solids. Excellent work Weizhu!
2016:
11/2016: Baoxing gave two invited talks at 2016 ASME-IMECE conference.
10/2016: Qingchang and Yuan passed the Qualifying exam. Congratulations!
10/2016: Baoxing gave an invited talk at 2016 SES conference.
10/2016: Group attended the 4th VSM workshop in Richmand.
10/2016: Farewell party to Songwei. Thanks Songwei for bringing so much fun over the past year.
09/2016: Branden Kim, first-year undergraduate student, joined our group. Welcome Branden!
09/2016: Qingchang's paper was accepted by Extreme Mechanics Letters. Very good work Qingchang!
09/2016: Farewell party to Yize. Thanks Yize for his contribution to the group and wish him a successful defense of his thesis at Beihang University and bright future.
06/2016: Our work published in Advanced Materials is selected as Inside Back Cover.
05/2016: Weizhu's paper on foam-core/solid-shell structure was accepted by International Journal of Solids and Structures. Good work Weizhu!
05/2016: Group lunch gethering at Wood Grill for celebrating the end of Spring semester
04/2016: Yuan's paper was accepted by ACS Nano. Very Good work Yuan!
04/2016: Two group members Qingchang and Yuan are selected as MAE department Outstanding Graduate Student! Congratulations!
03/2016: Weizhu's paper was accepted by Scientific Reports. Good work Weizhu and thanks to all our collaborators!
03/2016: Qingchang's paper was accepted by Applied Physics Letters. Good work Qingchang!
02/2016: Group party at Baoxing's home in celebration of Chinese New year!
01/2016: Zongzhan Gao, Associate Professor from Northwestern Polytechnical University, joined our group as a Visiting Scholar and he will stay at UVA for one year. Welcome Zongzhan!
2015:
12/2015: Yue Zhang joined our group as a PhD student. Yue graduated from the Honors School in the major Engineering Mechanics, Harbin Institute of Technology,2014, and successfully arrived in UVA after 5-month check of his US Visa. Our group keeps attracting top-level and self-motivated students. Welcome Yue!
12/2015: Group lunch at Newcomb Hall in the celebration of Christmas holiday.
11/2015: Songwei Li joined our group as a Visiting student. Songwei is a graduate student at Northwestern Polytechnical University and will stay at UVA for one year. Welcome Songwei!
11/2015: Baoxing joined the Technical Committee of ASME Materials Division Nanomaterials for Energy and Materials Division Multifunctional Materials.
10/2015: Baoxing joined the Technical Committee of TMS Nanomechanical Materials Behavior
10/2015: Baoxing is invited to talk in the Symposium in Honor of Professor James C.M. Li’s 90th Birthday in 2015 MS&T.
09/2015: Yuan is enrolled to the PhD program after one year study in our group as a Master student. Congratulations Yuan! Yuan has published two research papers in the past one year. We will keep attracting self-motivated and creative students!
09/2015: Group gathering at Peter Chang in celebration of Moon Festival and on the occasion of our group new member Yize.
09/2015: Baoxing's paper was accepted by Advanced Materials. Thanks to all our collaborators!
09/2015: Yuan's paper was accepted by Carbon. Good Work Yuan!
09/2015: Qingchang attended UVA Datapalooza on behalf of our group. The attendance is nominated by SEAS dean and MAE department chair!
08/2015: Yize Dong joined the group as a Visiting graduate student. Yize received BS in Beihang University. Welcome!
08/2015: Yuan's paper was accepted by The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Good work Yuan!
08/2015: Baoxing is co-editing a themed issue "Mechanics in Extreme Manufacturing" in Extreme Mechanics Letters. More information is here.
08/2015: Qingchang's paper was accepted by Langmuir. Good work Qingchang!
06/2015: Baoxing is co-orginizing the symposium in the field of nanoporous materials in 2015 SES Meeting.
06/2015: Qingchang's paper was accepted by AIP Advance. Nice work Qingchang!
02/2015: Baoxing gave a seminar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UVA.
01/2015: New Year group dinner at Taste of China.
2014:
12/2014: Weizhu Yang joined the group as a Visiting PhD Student. Weizhu received BS in Northwestern Polytechnical University. Welcome!
12/2014: Qingchang Liu joined the group as a PhD Student. Qingchang received BS in Northwestern Polytechnical University. Welcome!
09/2014: Yuan Gao joined the group as a Master Student. Yuan received BS in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Welcome!
08/2014: Baoxing Xu joined UVa as an assistant professor.
