Thomas J. Wallin

About

Thomas J. Wallin is a Research Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on advancing soft wearable devices, emphasizing their applications in human-computer interaction. His group combines materials, chemistry, advanced manufacturing, and mechanical design to develop new technologies aimed at enhancing the complexity and functionality of soft machines. Professor Wallin has extensive expertise in additive manufacturing and has explored the use of soft materials in 3D-printed devices, such as actuators and 'automatically perspiring soft robots' that utilize sweat as a cooling mechanism. He earned a BS in physics and chemistry from The College of William and Mary in 2010, and an MS and PhD in materials science and engineering from Cornell University in 2018. Prior to joining MIT, he was a research scientist in soft wearable technologies at Meta’s Reality Labs Research, which focuses on immersive technologies.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Materials science
• Composite material
• Artificial Intelligence
• Nanotechnology
• Engineering
• Algorithm
• Biomedical engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Structural engineering

Selected publications

• Photopatternable, degradable, and performant polyimide network substrates for e-waste mitigation

  RSC Applied Polymers · 2024-01-01 · 6 citations

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  Photopolymerizable and degradable polyimides from liquid resins were developed, using existing economic chemical feedstocks, as flexible substrates to mitigate the e-waste crisis.

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• Tomographic projection optimization for volumetric additive manufacturing with general band constraint Lp-norm minimization

  Additive manufacturing · 2024-08-01 · 5 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  Tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing is a rapidly growing fabrication technology that enables rapid production of 3D objects through a single build step. In this process, the design of projections directly impacts geometric resolution, material properties, and manufacturing yield of the final printed part. Herein, we identify the hidden equivalent operations of three major existing projection optimization schemes and reformulate them into a general loss function where the optimization b…

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• Photopatternable, Degradable, and Performant Polyimide Network Substrates for E-Waste Mitigation

  ChemRxiv · 2024-05-01 · 2 citations

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  The continuous accumulation of electronic waste is reaching alarming levels necessitating sustainable solutions to mitigate environmental impact. Fabrication of the commercial electronic substrates also requires high heat. As an alternative, we propose a series of reprocessible electronic substrates based on photopolymerizable polyimides containing degradable ester linkages. We synthesize imide-containing diallyl monomers derived from readily available chemical feedstocks to produce high-quality…

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• Generalized projection optimization model for tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing

  2024-03-12 · 2 citations

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  As a recently developed 3D printing technique, tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing (VAM) enables rapid printing of freeform objects by parallelizing photopolymerization through tomographic exposure. In this tomographic exposure process, patterning resolution and conversion accuracy crucially depend on the design of tomographic projections. In this nascent field, there are only a few optimization algorithms and each proposed to cater certain special cases of the general inverse design p…

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• One-Pot Printing of Robust Multimaterial Devices

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021-11-20 · 1 citations

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  Polymer 3D printing is a broad set of manufacturing methods that permit the fabrication of complex architectures, and, as a result, numerous efforts focus on formulating processible chemistries that produce desirable material behavior in printed parts. However, current resin chemistries typically result in a single fixed set of properties once fully polymerized, a fact that poses significant engineering challenges to obtaining multimaterial devices. As an alternative to single-property materials…

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Frequent coauthors

• Robert F. Shepherd

  Cornell University

  28 shared

• Emmanuel P. Giannelis

  Cornell University

  20 shared

• Wenyang Pan

  META Health

  16 shared

• Bobak Mosadegh

  Cornell University

  15 shared

• Kaiyang Wang

  12 shared

• Jérémy Odent

  University of Mons

  11 shared

• Mighten C. Yip

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  10 shared

• Yiğit Mengüç

  Oregon State University

  10 shared

Labs

• The Wallin GroupPI

Education

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1990

• M.S., Materials Science and Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1986

• B.S., Materials Science and Engineering

  University of California, Berkeley

  1984

Awards & honors

• 2007 Commercialization Fellow, Cornell University
• 2011-15 IGERT Fellow in Magnetic and Nanostructured Material…
• 2009-10 Honors Fellow, Charles Center, College of William an…

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