TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Bioinspired Materials: Fabrications and Characterization
Dr. Majid Minary, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas
Abstract: Nature has designed materials that often show superior properties compared to man-made materials.
Natural materials are multiscale hierarchical structures spanning nano-scale to macro-scale. Through careful
engineering analysis, we can extract design laws from natural materials to improve the properties of man-made
materials. I will discuss nanoscale properties of bone and what we can learn from this biocomposite. A particular
emphasize will be placed on properties of individual collagen fibrils, both in terms of experiment and molecular
dynamics simulation. In addition, I will discuss design, fabrication and characterization of a few bioinspired
materials such as super-stretchable piezoelectric coils and platelet-reinforced polymer composite.
Bio: Majid Minary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering at UT Dallas. He is an affiliated faculty at UT Dallas NanoTech Institute
and Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Bioengineering. He
received his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and spent two
years Postdoctoral training at Northwestern University.
His research interests include bioinspired materials design and characterization and
nanoscale mechanics and biomechanics. His group is funded by AFOSR Young
Investigator program, and NSF.
Monday, April 20 2015
Livermore Center 101 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Coordinator: Dr. Chang-Dong Yeo (changdong.yeo@ttu.edu)