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12/16/2013: Our work on
cellulose nanocrystals has been featured in the news
- Purdue University Article
"Cellulose nanocrystals possible 'green' wonder material" [Link
1]
- NanoTechEtc "Cellulose NanoCrystals"[Link
2]
- GreenCareer "New look at old
structure for future possibilities"
[Link 3]
- Bio-Medicine.org "Cellulose nanocrystals possible 'green'
wonder material" [Link
4]
- Daily News "Cellulose nanocrystals possible 'green'
wonder material" [Link
5]
- Science Daily "Cellulose nanocrystals possible 'green'
wonder material" [Link
6]
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11/25/2013: Our work on
modeling of Cellulose NanoCrystals has been chosen for the cover of the
Journal Cellulose.
[Link]
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10/03/2013: "Smart Materials Stem
From Nature": Our research on biomimetic materials has been
featured in an special article in the October issue of Machine Design Magazine
[Link]
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09/27/2013: Congratulations to Fernando
Dri who sucesfully defended his PhD Thesis on Sept. 27, 2013. |
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09/27/2013: Congratulations to Chan
Jeong who received the "Cementitious Materials
Research Award" at the 2013 Civil Engineering Scholarship and
Awards Banquet on Sept. 27, 2013. |
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Our paper "Anisotropy
of the Elastic Properties of Crystalline Cellulose Iβ from First
Principles Density Functional Theory with Van der Waals Interactions"
has been accepted in Cellulose.
[PDF]
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09/06/2013: Prof. Zavattieri has been chosen as the recipient of the Roy E. & Myrna G. Wansik
Research Award. This annual award was
created to recognize an outstanding researcher in the School of Civil
Engineering. |
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08/01/2013: Congratulations to Chan
Jeong who received the "Award of Excelence - Top Research
Poster" for his work "Insights
into the Effect of Geometrical Parameters in the Mechanical Properties
of the Radular Teeth of the Cryptochiton Stelleri - A 3D Print Approach"
presented at the 2013 SURF Research Symposium at Purdue University.[CE
News][Surf]
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07/25/2013: 07/25/2013: The lab welcomes Vanessa Restrepo.
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07/01/2013: Prof. Zavattieri was invited to give a lecture at the
NSF-funded Pan-Amaerican Advanced
Studies Institute (PASI) on Polymer
and Composite Materials from Renewable Resources and Biorefinery: from
Chemistry to Applications, to be held in San Jose, Costa Rica
from Aug. 5 to 15th, 2013. [Link] |
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05/20/2013: Prof. Zavattieri is now the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Experimental and
Computational Biomechanics (IJECB).
[Link]
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>> 05/02/2013:
Prof. Zavattieri has been appointed member of the Editorial Board of ASTM Journal of Advances in Civil
Engineering Materials (ACEM)[Link]
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>> 04/23/2013: Prof.
Zavattieri partcipated in a meeting with the Minister of Science, Technology and
Prodcutive Innovation of Argentina and other scientits at
Chicago to discuss potential collaboration and exchange of students
with Argentina [Link].
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04/08/2013: Congratulations to Fernando Dri who received the Certificate of
Excellence Awards from the Office of Interdisciplinary Graduate
Program (OIGP) for his work on the multiscale modeling of cellulose. [Link][CE
News]
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>>04/04/2013:
Our research on biological and biomimetic materials has been
highlighted in Purdue Today [Link]
and in the CE Impact Magazine [PDF].
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03/11/2013: Congratulations to Enrique Escobar de Obaldia who has been
chosen as a recipient of the Nellie
Munson Teaching Assistant Award!
Each
year the School of Civil Engineering recognize and encourage excellence
among the graduate teaching assistants and instructors by making awards
to the best eligible students. The Munson endowment makes this
possible. The Munson Award was established in 1973 and recognizes
four candidates with this award.
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03/14/2013: Prof. Pablo Zavattieri gives a seminar at Stanford
Univesity as part of the Mechanics and Computation Seminar Series [Link].
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01/29/2013: Prof. Pablo Zavattieri has been awarded the National
Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for
his 5-year project, "Multiscale
Investigation and Mimicry of Naturally-Occurring Ultra-High Performance
Composite Materials" [Link]
Prof. Zavattieri
was featured in the News &
Spotlights Web Site of the School of Civil Engineering [Link]
and School of Aeronautics and Astronautics [Link]
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01/07/2013: The lab welcomes Nicolas Guarin.
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01/07/2013: Prof. Zavattieri is co-organizing the symposium "Material Design and Biomimetic Material
Concepts" as part
of the 49th Annual Technical meeting of the Society of Engineering
Science (SES 2012) to be held in Brown University, in July
28-31,
2013. [Link]
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