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🚨New Article Alert! “Towards ultrastretchability, multimodal instability, and static nonreciprocity in kirigami metamaterials” 📖 By: Prof. Mingchao Liu, Prof. Ji Liu & Prof. Weicheng Huang 🔍 Read here: oaepublish.com/articles/ss.20… #Kirigami #Nonreciprocity #SoftRobotics

Using numerical simulations and a simplified toy model, researchers analyze the combined effects of shape perturbation and intrinsic boundary asymmetry on the snap-through of a clamped elastic arch and determine its transient asymmetry dynamics. 🔗 go.aps.org/4lCBfYL

New study proposes a strategy for high debonding resistance via large-scale bridging, enabled by structural heterogeneities. 💡 Stiff islands + soft bridges = 13× improvement! ✨ Applications: stretchable light strip, bandage repair. 🧵 Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🌟 Excited to receive the #MikeCrisfieldPrize for Best Presentation at UKACM2025 Conference. I shared our work on “Snap-Through Enabled Jumping Robot: Modelling and Inverse Design” — nonlinear mechanics + data-driven design = fun! Big thanks to UKACM, organizers, and my amazing team! 🚀

🔍 New insights into flaw sensitivity of dynamic hydrogels UV-induced disulfide bond exchange reduces crack-tip stress 💪 Higher rupture stretch & stress 🌀 Enables directional crack propagation via local irradiation 📖 Read: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Jingda Tang #hydrogel #mechanics

No wind, no sound—just the sun sinking gently west!

Published this week in PNASNews: A thin sheet folds deeply from a small, localized pull. No patterning, no compression — just geometry. We call it #TUG_Folding — a new instability with α ∝ ε³⁄⁴. 🔗doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Maths Observatory UoB Engineering College of Engineering & Physical Sciences

Honoured to be Highly Commended for #Outstanding_Impact_by_an_Early_Career_Researcher at the Uni of Birmingham Research Impact Awards 2025! Grateful for the support of my collaborators and students. Excited to keep pushing the boundaries of mechanics & robotic metamaterials.

🤖 MechAgents—multi-agent LLMs solving mechanics problems! AI agents collaborate to plan, code, execute & validate FEM solutions for elasticity problems. 🧠 Physics-based + generative AI = new automation frontier in engineering. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.… Markus J. Buehler

Thanks for highlighting our recent work on TUG folding: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… New discovery in localised pulling opens up opportunities in engineering design birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/new-…

Researchers from Uni of Birmingham, NTU Singapore, and University of Oxford have discovered that applying a localised pull to a flat, flexible sheet can cause it to fold dramatically—without any pre-existing creases or patterns: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/new-… Mingchao Liu

You've got friends round for coffee and cake. There are seven of you. Trouble is, you've made a square cake. How do you make sure everyone receives an equal share? Dominic has his cake and they all eat it.

Grateful to have wrapped up an amazing week in Changsha last week — reconnecting with old friends, mentors, and making new ones. Honored to receive the #ICCES_Outstanding_Young_Researcher_Award! Thanks for all the memories and inspiring conversations — onward! 🚀 UoB Engineering

🧩 CNNs reveal dislocation structures in grain boundaries! 🔍 Predict GBD locations from atomistic stress fields ✅ Accurate for low & high angle grain boundaries 🧠 Trained on superposed stress fields of isolated dislocations 🔗 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.… #materials #AI #EML

Dr Mingchao Liu is working with international partners to unlock precision control over how structures snap in engineering: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/new-… Uni of Birmingham Mingchao Liu UoB Engineering

Dr Mingchao Liu is working with international partners to unlock precision control over how structures snap in engineering: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/new-… Uni of Birmingham Mingchao Liu UoB Engineering #BrumHour

🚀 Soft Science achieves its first Impact Factor: 9.0, ranked in Q1 in Materials Science, Multidisciplinary! ❤️Huge thanks to our editorial board, authors, reviewers & readers — this achievement is yours. 🔗 oaepublish.com/ss #ImpactFacor2024 #SoftScience #Q1 #Clarivate

🌊 What makes starfish ossicles mechanically robust? 🔬 Dual-scale microlattices: calcite crystal + diamond-TPMS structure 📐 Atomic–lattice alignment enhances isotropy 🧠 Computational study reveals bioinspired design insights 🔗 Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.…