Jeremy Cho (Mechanical Engineering), along with doctoral student Yiwei Gao, authored a paper published in Soft Matter. The paper is titled, "Quantifying the trade-off between stiffness and permeability in hydrogels." The paper is also featured in the Soft Matter Emerging Investigators Series. Hydrogels—polymeric gel…

Seungman Park (Mechanical Engineering) received the prestigious NIH Career Award (NIA K25 Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award). This five-year grant supports Park’s ongoing research to investigate the relation between tissue viscoelasticity and tumor progression in aging tissues. Park is currently an assistant professor in the…

Zachary Frank, a UNLV alumnus, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) published "On the mechanism of performance improvement of electroactive polyvinyl chloride (PVC) gel actuators via conductive fillers" in Scientific Reports.

Alexandrea Washington (Mechanical Engineering), with Zakai Olsen, Ji Su, and Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering), published "A physics-based modeling of a hydraulically amplified electrostatic actuator," in the Journal of Physics Communications. 

Kwang Kim (Mechanical Engineering) and Dong-Chan Lee (Chemistry) are inventors of a patent, Fabricating Ionic/Polyimide Membranes with its issue number, US 11,312,851, recently granted by the , the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.   

Rubaiya Murshed and Shubhra Bansal (both Mechanical Engineering) have published a journal paper on Perovskite photovoltaic material, "Additive-Assisted Optimization in Morphology and Optoelectronic Properties of Inorganic Mixed Sn-Pb Halide Perovskites." This paper was published in Materials in  January. Murshed is a doctoral student.

Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering and Kwang J. Kim (Mechanical Engineering) are the authors of a new journal publication,  "Characterizing the Transduction Behavior of Ionic Polymer-metal Composite Actuators and Sensors via Dimensional Analysis," which was published in Smart Materials and…

Justin Neubauer and Kwang J. Kim (both Mechanical Engineering), along with Zakai J. Olsen, '16 BS, '18 MS, and '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering; Zachary Frank, '21 PhD Mechanical Engineering; and former post-doc Taeseon Hwang are the authors of a new journal publication,  "A Study of Mechanoelectrical Transduction Behavior in Polyvinyl Chloride…

Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript “A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’:  The nuclear waste management strategy (part IV): Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates” in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy. The article is the fourth and…

Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript “A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’:  The nuclear waste management strategy (part IV): Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, and United Arab Emirates” in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy. The article is the fourth and…

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about corresponding nuclear-related programs at the ANS Virtual Graduate School Fair last week. UNLV is the only university that has two recruitment sessions (Nuclear Engineering and Health…

Charlotta E. Sanders (Mechanical Engineering) and co-author Mark Sanders have published their manuscript "A world's dilemma ‘upon which the sun never sets’:  The nuclear waste management strategy (part III): Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Netherlands, and Romania in the journal Progress in Nuclear Energy." The article is the third part…