Nanshu Lu

About

The Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials (CMSSM) promotes research addressing fundamental and applied issues in the broad field of mechanics of solids, structures and materials. The field of mechanics is playing an increasingly important role in new areas such as materials science and engineering, manufacturing, and the durable design of a variety of microelectronics devices. The backgrounds and expertise of the Center’s faculty bring together the necessary focus on theoretical, experimental, and numerical approaches necessary to solve many of today’s new mechanical problems. The Center’s two main objectives are, firstly, to foster interaction between its members and develop the infrastructure required by its researchers and, secondly, to disseminate the results of the research to the public, increase the visibility of the activity, and help expand interactions with industry and other research groups.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Composite material
• Engineering
• Computer Science
• Pathology
• Data science
• Physics
• Medicine
• Biology

Selected publications

• Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors

  ACS Nano · 2023 · 1225 citations

  Humans rely increasingly on sensors to address grand challenges and to improve quality of life in the era of digitalization and big data. For ubiquitous sensing, flexible sensors are developed to overcome the limitations of conventional rigid counterparts. Despite rapid advancement in bench-side research over the last decade, the market adoption of flexible sensors remains limited. To ease and to expedite their deployment, here, we identify bottlenecks hindering the maturation of flexible sensor…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Highly Sensitive Capacitive Pressure Sensors over a Wide Pressure Range Enabled by the Hybrid Responses of a Highly Porous Nanocomposite

  Advanced Materials · 2021 · 336 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  within 30-50 kPa. The effect of the hybrid responses is differentiated from the effect of porosity or high dielectric constants by comparing the HRPS with its purely piezocapacitive counterparts. Fundamental understanding of the HRPS and the prediction of optimal CNT doping are achieved through simplified analytical models. The HRPS is able to measure pressures from as subtle as the temporal arterial pulse to as large as footsteps.

  DOI

• Strategies for body-conformable electronics

  Matter · 2022 · 271 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Mechanics at the interfaces of 2D materials: Challenges and opportunities

  Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science · 2020 · 143 citations

  DOI

• Fabrication, characterization and applications of graphene electronic tattoos

  Nature Protocols · 2021 · 115 citations

  DOI

Recent grants

• EAGER: Two-Dimensional Material-Based Epidermal Active Sensors for Brain Monitoring.

  NSF · $160k · 2015–2017

• Adhesion Mechanics of Bio-Electronics Interface

  NSF · $361k · 2013–2016

• ASCENT: Multimodal chest e-tattoo with customized IC and deep learning algorithm for tracking and predicting progressive pneumonia

  NSF · $1.5M · 2021–2026

Frequent coauthors

• Dae‐Hyeong Kim

  Institute for Basic Science

  50 shared

• Shutao Qiao

  The University of Texas at Austin

  29 shared

• Liu Wang

  Shenzhen University

  27 shared

• Taeghwan Hyeon

  Institute for Basic Science

  26 shared

• Zhaohe Dai

  Peking University

  19 shared

• Animesh Tandon

  18 shared

• Seok Joo Kim

  Harvard University

  18 shared

• Seung Hong Choi

  Seoul National University Hospital

  16 shared

Labs

• Lu Research GroupPI

Education

• Ph.D.

  Harvard University

Awards & honors

• NSF CAREER award
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Invest…
• Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program
• MIT’s Technology Review 35 under 35 (TR 35)
• 3M Nontenured Faculty Award

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• Thomas J. Hughesh-154
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