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Research Group
Current research group members, and collaborating research groups include:
Dr Fan Feng: post-doc, theoretical mechanics, differential geometry, curved fold non-isometric origami.
Dr. John Biggins, Lecturer, Department of Engineering (Theoretical Mechanics), fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Morphogenesis, elastic instabilities, differential geometry and mechanics, control of actuating Gaussian curvature, semi-soft elastomer response, piezo-electricity of chiral polymers, textures and mechanics of smectic C elastomers, mechanics of polydomain nematic elastomers, . . .
Chain dynamics, fountains etc. (with MW)
Associated research group
Professor Eugene Terentjev, Cavendish Laboratory. Long term colleague and coauthor of book on Liquid Crystal Elastomers. The Terentjev group is theoretical and experimental. Liquid crystals, liquid crystal elastomers, biophysics, optics, photonics, photo-actuation, rubber tuneable lasers, . . .
Collaborating research groups
Professor Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Associate Director, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State, Ohio. Also long term colleague and collaborator. Photo-mechanics, photonics, lasing in elastomers, optics, theory and experiment of liquid crystals, statistical mechanics, . . . .
Professor Dick Broer, Polymer Chemistry Department, Technical University Eindhoven. Liquid Crystal and Polymer chemistry. Photo-mechanics, photonics, microfluidics, actuation, medical diagnostics, . . .
Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Caltech, Pasadena (former EPSRC visiting research Professor, Cambridge 2008-9). Author of stardard book on " Microstructure of Martensite - Why It Forms and How It Gives Rise to the Shape-Memory Effect". Mathematical elasticity, texture, ferro-electricity, mechanics, . . .
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