New Funding to Mitigate Risk of Concussion

The Smart and Connected Health Program through the National Science Foundation recently awarded our team (in collaboration with several others) a grant titled Reducing Traumatic Brain Injury Risk with Smart Collision Detection and Mitigation. The grant began September 1, 2016 and will be focused on ,developing technology to better sense head impact information (velocity, direction), alert...

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Congratulations Jourdan!

Jourdan Colter successfully defended her Master’s thesis today to her graduate committee as well as family and friends.  Her thesis, Design Optimization of a Hyaluronic-Acid Based Hydrogel Drug-Delivery Device for Immobilization in the Eye, set the foundation for identifying geometrical designs and findings on the optimization of a drug delivery system for individuals with eye injuries.  Congratulations on...

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Award won at the SB3C!

Big congratulations to Kiffer Creveling, and Boston Terry who presented their research at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, & Biotransport conference at National Harbor, Maryland.  Kiffer presented his work on the adhesion between the vitreous and the retina in his first podium talk.  Boston presented his work developing a voxel-wise algorithm to better detect mild TBI for the undergraduate...

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Undergrad Wins SURF Speaking Competition

Pasadena Calif. – Caltech Material science undergraduate student Moriah Bischann, mentored by aerospace postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Owen Kingstedt, is the winner of the Doris S. Perpall Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) Speaking Competition. She was recognized as the best speakers-out of the 200 students who presented their SURF research. Read the full story ....

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Deformation Twinning

Because of the low symmetry hexagonal close packed atomic structure of Mg there are a limited number of deformation mechanisms to accommodate deformation along the crystallographic c-axis. Only one dislocation slip based mechanism can accommodate deformation along the c-axis. Therefore, deformation twinning plays a dominant role in the accommodation of deformation along the c-axis. ...

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