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CAREER: Patterning Hard Interlocking Particles to Achieve Soft Materials and Structures — NSF Award to Georgia Tech Research Corpo

This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award will be used to study the mechanics of interlocking granular materials that consist of hard, interlocking elements assembled into soft, deformable materials, and their ability to enable shape-shifting structures. Soft materials have been essential to innovati

Award titleCAREER: Patterning Hard Interlocking Particles to Achieve Soft Materials and Structures
Award ID2542321
AwardeeGeorgia Tech Research Corporation
CityATLANTA
StateGA
Amount obligated$662,045
Principal investigatorEmily Sanders
ProgramMechanics of Materials and Str
Start date08/01/2026
AbstractThis Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award will be used to study the mechanics of interlocking granular materials that consist of hard, interlocking elements assembled into soft, deformable materials, and their ability to enable shape-shifting structures. Soft materials have been essential to innovations in tissue engineering, soft robotics, stretchable electronics, among many other applications; however, their mechanical behavior is hard to tune and scaling them for nano- to m
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