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Our research interests fall in the following categories (1) bioinspired design, (2) multi-physics modeling, (3) machine learning driven design, (4) advanced additive manufacturing technologies, and (5) soft robotics applications. Opening the design space of functional objects that can be printed will drive and revolutionize the face of additive manufacturing. More information is given below by category. Please see our publications page for examples from across these exciting research avenues.

(1) Bioinspired design - Mimicking the simple, yet elusive, design paradigms of nature

C Lee et al., Cell Reports Physical Science (2023), S Lee et al., Cell Reports Physical Science (2022), A Chen et al., Materials (2021), J Ott et al., Bioinspiration and Biomimetics (2019); GX Gu et al., Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (2017); GX Gu et al., Advanced Materials (2017)

(2) Multi-physics modeling - Investigating how complex phenomenon affect properties of materials

Lee et al., Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2023), Jin et al., Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (2023), B Zheng et al., PCCP (2023), B Zheng et al, npj Computational Materials (2022), B Zheng et al., Carbon (2019); Z Zhang et al., Mechanics of Materials, (2019)

(3) Machine learning driven design - Constructing materials from scratch using data science approaches

S Lee et al., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2023), D Park et al., Materials & Design (2022), S Lee et al., Materials Horizons (2022), Z Zhang et al., Advanced Theory and Simulations (2020), Yang et al., Materials & Design (2020)

(4) Advanced additive manufacturing technologies - Developing new tools to realize complex geometries

Smaldone et al., Device (2023), Z Jin et al., ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering (2021), Z Jin et al., Additive Manufacturing (2021), Z Jin et al., Matter (2020), Z Jin et al., Advanced Intelligent Systems (2019); Z Jin et al., Manufacturing Letters (2019)

(5) Soft robotics applications - Designing and fabricating next generation soft robotic actuators

Z Zhang et al., Cell Reports Physical Science (2022), K Demir et al., Advanced Intelligent Systems (2020); Z Vangelatos et al., Advanced Engineering Materials (2020)

Contact: Prof. Grace X. Gu
Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
Email: ggu@berkeley.edu

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