In the News
The Bolin Liao lab has achieved the first-ever “movie” of the phenomenon.
Mechanical engineer Yangying Zhu is among the first 13 academics to receive the inaugural IGNIITE grant
Team led by Bolin Liao has been awarded a $1.9M NSF grant on "AI-Enhanced Material-Device Codesign of Boron Arsenide as the Next-Generation Semiconductor".
As water freezes, most of its dissolved gases get expelled. But some tiny bubbles near the freezing edge can get trapped in the solidifying ice, where they keep growing. Virgile Thiévenaz, who studies fluid mechanics at Paris’s Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Education Institute, and Alban Sauret, a mechanical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, re-created this process in the laboratory to tease apart the factors that affect growing bubbles’ shapes and sizes.
Two professors in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering, Beth Pruitt and M. Scott Shell, have received a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community: they have both been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), landing among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators across 24 disciplines who make up the 2023 class.
Congratulations to our ME colleague Distinguished Professor Francesco Bullo for leading the team that was selected for a FY24 DoD MURI award.
Congratulations to graduate student Sreeram Rajesh and Professor Alban Sauret for winning a 2024 Poster Award in the Gallery of Soft Matter through the American Physical Society
UC Santa Barbara researchers Charlie Xiao, Elliot Hawkes, and Bolin Liao present an adaptive tile, which when deployed in arrays on roofs, can lower heating bills in winter and cooling bills in summer, without the need for electronics.
Yangying Zhu was one of twenty-four awardees from twenty academic institutions in 2024 recognized by the Young Investigator Program