April 2 - 6, 2018
Phoenix, Arizona
2018 MRS Spring Meeting

Symposium NM11-Deformable Atomically Thin Materials—Mechanics, Materials and Devices

Many mechanical deformations, such as buckling, crumpling, wrinkling, collapsing, and delamination, are usually considered as threats to mechanical integrity and are avoided or reduced in the traditional design of materials and structures. However, the careful control of materials systems and applied stresses enable the tailoring of such mechanical instabilities to deterministically create functional morphologies. In particular, owing to their ultralow bending stiffness, one can utilize deformation of atomically-thin materials (such as graphene, BN, transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, Si nano-membranes, etc.) to enable new structural properties and device-level functionalities, beyond those in bulk material systems.

This symposium will cover fundamental mechanics theory and modeling of atomically-thin materials and devices, elucidating how controlled deformation and strain engineering can enable new materials properties and device functions. On the experimental side, the symposium will cover advances in material synthesis and assembly/processing as well as controlled deformation and straining of atomically-thin materials. Furthermore, the symposium will also focus on how such controlled deformation and straining will lead to the emergent properties, including thermal, optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical and/or hybrid properties. Finally, potential applications on adaptive/conformal and multifunctional electronics based on deformed/strained atomically-thin materials will be presented.

Interdisciplinary topics related to mechanics, physics, and materials science and engineering will be presented by invited speakers in order to accelerate the development of these new forms of materials and applications. Interdisciplinary presentations from invited speakers are also aimed to motivate synergistic research collaborations in the field of deformed and strained atomically-thin materials.

Topics will include:

  • Theory and modeling of deformation mechanics of atomically-thin materials
  • Synthesis and assembly of atomically-thin materials
  • Controlled deformation (e.g., bending, folding, buckling, crumpling, etc.) of atomically-thin materials
  • Strain engineering of atomically-thin materials
  • Emergent thermal, optical, electrical, magnetic and/or hybrid properties of deformed/strained atomically-thin materials
  • Flexible, stretchable and shape adaptive devices based on atomically-thin materials

Invited Speakers:

  • Xiangfeng Duan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
  • Ali Javey (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Peide Ye (Purdue University, USA)
  • Junqiao Wu (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
  • Jiwoong Park (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Rodney Ruoff (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
  • Jong-Hyun Ahn (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)
  • Narayana Aluru (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
  • Adrian Bachtold (ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain)
  • Jiaxing Huang (Northwestern University, USA)
  • Rui Huang (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Dae-Hyeong Kim (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
  • Kyung-Suk Kim (Brown University, USA)
  • Andras Kis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Young Hee Lee (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
  • Nanshu Lu (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
  • Paul McEuen (Cornell University, USA)
  • Teri Odom (Northwestern University, USA)
  • Hong-Gyu Park (Korea University, Republic of Korea)
  • Hyeon-Jin Shin (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea)
  • Mahmooda Sultana (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
  • Xiaolin Zheng (Stanford University, USA)
  • Ting Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Yong Zhu (North Carolina State University, USA)

Symposium Organizers

SungWoo Nam
University of California, Irvine
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA

Chi Hwan Lee
Purdue University
Biomedical Engineering
USA

Won Il Park
Hanyang University
Materials Science and Engineering
Republic of Korea

Baoxing Xu
University of Virginia
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA

Topics

devices elastic properties electrical properties magnetic properties nanoscale nanostructure nucleation & growth simulation thermal conductivity