News

Metehan Calis receives a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2023)

Our research article “Adhesion of 2D MoS2 to Graphite and Metal Substrates Measured by a Blister Test” appears in Nano Letters. See paper here.

Scott Bunch appears in part 2 and 3 of a documentary about the Schon scandal. You can view the video here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

David Lloyd is awarded the outstanding PhD dissertation award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. 

David Lloyd receives a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2020)

Our research article “Voltage gated inter-cation selective ion channels from graphene nanopores” appears in Nanoscale. See paper here.

Our research article “Adhesion, Stiffness, and Instability in Atomically Thin MoS2” appears in Nano Letters. See paper here.

Lauren Cantley receives a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2017)

Scott Bunch is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

Lauren Cantley wins the PhD Societal Impact Award from Boston University. 

Santiago Cartamil Bueno from TU Delft visits our lab.  

Our research article “A review on mechanics and mechanical properties of 2D materials—Graphene and beyond” appears in Extreme Mechanics Letters. See paper here

Our research article “Band Gap Engineering with Ultralarge Biaxial Strains in Suspended Monolayer MoS2” appears in Nano Letters. See paper here

Our research article “Mathematical Analysis of Time-varying, Stochastic Gas Transport through Graphene Membranes” appears in ACS Nano. See paper here

Our research article “Molecular valves for controlling gas phase transport made from discrete angstrom-sized pores in graphene” appears in Nature Nanotechnology. See paper here. See news here.

Luda Wang receives a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2015).

Scott Bunch is appointed to the Photonics Center at Boston University (6/2014).

Xinghui Liu receives a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2014).

Scott Bunch is appointed to the Department of Physics at Boston University.

Our research article “Graphene Blisters with Switchable States Controlled by Pressure and Adhesion” appears in Nano Letters. See paper here.

Our research article “Large Arrays and Properties of 3-Terminal Graphene Nanoelectromechanical Switches” appears in Advanced Materials. See paper here.

The lab will be moving to the Boston University Photonics Center starting in Fall 2013. Scott Bunch accepted a position in the BU Department of Mechanical Engineering and Division of Materials Science and Engineering. The transition from CU Boulder will be complete by Spring 2014.

Steven Koenig receives a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2013).

Scott Bunch gives a seminar in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota. See the talk here.

Our research article “Observation of Pull-in Instability in Graphene Membranes under Interfacial Forces” appears in Nano Letters. See paper here.

Narasimha Boddeti and Xinghui Liu receive a Dean’s Graduate Student Research Grant (2013).

Our research article “Mechanics of Adhered, Pressurized Graphene Blisters” appears in Journal of Applied Mechanics. See paper here.

Scott Bunch is selected as a Fellow of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at CU Boulder.

Our research article “Selective molecular sieving through porous graphene” appears in Nature Nanotechnology. See paper here. See news here and interview here.

Our research article “Ultrathin Films by Atomic Layer Deposition on Graphene” appears in Nano Letters. See paper here.

Our review article “Adhesion mechanics of graphene membranes” appears in Solid State Communications – Special issue on graphene. See paper here.

Steven Koenig receives a CU-NIST Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowship (2012).

Lauren Cantley receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012).

Our research article, “Ultrastrong adhesion of graphene membranes” appears in Nature Nanotechnology. See paper here. See news here.

Scott Bunch receives a 2011 NSF CAREER award.

Tony Xu graduates summa cum laude with honors. He will attend the PhD program in Applied and Engineering Physics at Harvard University.

Scott Bunch receives the Department of Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Graduate Education Award (2009-2010).

Scott Bunch receives the DARPA MTO Young Faculty Award (2008).
Press: University of Colorado


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