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Edwin P Chan (Fed)

Materials Research Engineer

Research Interests

Mechanical properties of soft materials

Macromolecules, 2018, 51, 2359–2366.

Soft Matter, 2018, 14, 4696–4701.

Advanced Materials, 2015, 27(33), 4924-4930.

Poromechanics of gels      

Advanced Materials, 2015, 27(33), 4924-4930.

Soft Matter, 2012, 8(5), 1492–1498.

J. Appl. Phys., 2011, 110, 086103.

Swelling of polymer networks

JPSB: Polymer Physics, 2013, 52(22), 1647-1655. 

Advanced Materials, 2011, 23(40), 4702-4706.

    Awards

    • American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering (PMSE) Co-op Research Award (2019)

    • German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (GAFOE) Participant (2015)

    • Adhesion Society Young Scientist Award (2013)

    • The Waterborne Symposium Shelby F. Thames Best Paper Award (2010)       

    • National Research Council Post-doctoral Research Fellowship (2009)

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    Publications

    An autonomous design algorithm to experimentally realize three-dimensionally isotropic auxetic network structures without compromising density

    Author(s)
    Meng Shen, Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Ami Ahure Powell, Mark Iadicola, Abhishek Sharma, Fabian Byléhn, Nidhi Pashine, Edwin P. Chan, Christopher Soles, Heinrich Jaeger, Juan de Pablo
    Auxetic materials have a negative Poisson's ratio and are of significant interest in applications that include impact mitigation, membrane separations and

    Scaling the Projectile Perforation Resistance of Soft Materials

    Author(s)
    Katherine Evans, Shawn Chen, Amanda Souna, Stephan J. Stranick, Christopher Soles, Edwin P. Chan
    From space dust to ballistic impact, controlling or mitigating a high velocity projectile impact event is a desirable outcome. The design and development of new

    Self-Assembled Asperities for Pressure Tunable Adhesion

    Author(s)
    Naomi Deneke, Jamie Booth, Edwin P. Chan, Chelsea S. Davis
    Control of adhesive strength is important in applications such as soft robotics, pick-and-place manufacturing, flexible and wearable devices, and transfer

    Pruning the Mechanical Impedance of Three-Dimensional Disordered Networks

    Author(s)
    Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Edwin P. Chan, Christopher Soles, Michael A. Riley, Endao Han, Nidhi Pashine, Kieran Murphy, Heinrich Jaeger, Sidney Nagel, Daniel Reid, Meng Shen, Juan J. de Pablo
    Disordered networks, comprised of random arrangements of bonds and nodes, have emerged as materials with the unique ability for independent control over the
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    Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022