Plate Mechanical Metamaterials and their Applications
The Mechanics Seminar Series
Event Details
Date
Friday, April 12, 2019
Time
11-11:50 a.m.
Location
Description
Igor Bargatin, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at University of Pennsylvania, will briefly discuss our experimental progress on all these applications, including demonstrations of extremely robust thermal insulators that can sustain a temperature difference of ~1000 K across a micron-scale gap, macroscopic plates that levitate when illuminated by light, and hollow AFM cantilevers that offer greatly enhanced sensitivity and data acquisition rates.
Cost
Free