Our paper on Zero-Power Shape Retention in Soft Pneumatic Actuators received the Award “Prix Relève Étoile Louis-Berlingue”.

An article on “Origami : le futur des matériaux” features our recent work on origami-inspired metamaterials

Our work on in-situ Activation of Snap-through Instability selected as cover of Advanced Materials!

Our work on contact-induced snapping metamaterials has been featured on Advanced Functional Materials. Well done Ruizhe!

Received outstanding teaching award from the Faculty of Engineering

Awarded the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in mechanical metamaterials.

The work from Chuan Qiao on a bi-shell valve has recently been featured as the frontpiece of the journal “Advanced Science”.

Invited to give a Webinar organized by the Materials Research Society (MRS) on “Additive manufacturing of metallic lattices”.

Invited to give a Webinar organized by the Materials Research Society (MRS) and hosted by Prof. V. Deshpande and J. Greer on Imperfect Architected Materials

Awarded  the James McGill Professorship, equivalent to Canada Research Chair Tier 1.

Received the appointment as Louis-Ho Scholar of the Faculty of Engineering in Technological Innovation

We received the 3rd Hakim prize for our past set of works on load-bearing mechanically biocompatible implants.

Our work on Bistable Auxetics inspired by ancient geometric motifs along with recent advances in the emerging field of Mechanical Metamaterials is featured in PNAS.

Our paper on Durable Bistable Auxetics made of rigid solids is featured in the Journal of Material Research and in the MRS Bulletin

We received the 2017 Award for “Excellence in Basic, Clinical, and Translational Science” from the Journal of Orthopaedic Research

We won the inaugural EngInE Innovation Fellowship Award for our technology on bone replacement implants

Another article of Pardis on architected surface patterns in liquid crystal membranes is featured as Cover of Soft Matter

Kazem is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace at Ryerson University.

Our work is featured in the August 2017 issue of PhysicsWorld.

Pardis’ paper on Surface Patterns in Liquid Crystal Membranes is featured as Cover of Soft Matter

Towards better hip replacements

Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials.

Our paper on Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials is featured as a Frontispiece in Advanced Materials.

Our paper on “Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension” published in Advanced Materials is featured as a Research Highlight in Nature Materials.

Our paper on “Tunable nano-wrinkling of chiral surfaces: Structure and diffraction optics” published in The Journal of Chemical Physics is featured in an AIP Publishing News article entitled Understanding Nature’s Most Striking Colors.

Our work on “Tunable nano-wrinkling of chiral surfaces: Structure and diffraction optics” featured on the cover of The Journal of Chemical Physics. Congratulations Pardis!

Our group won the 1st place prize at the 2015 McGill Dobson Cup Start-UP Competition.

We are glad to announce that in August 2015 Mostafa El Sayed, our former PhD student (2007-2010), has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University.

The William and Rhea Seath 2014-2015 Award for innovative research is awarded to Prof. Pasini, Sajad Arabnejad, Burnett Johnston and Dr. Michael Tanzer, MD (Department of Surgery).

Congratulation to Hamid Akbarzadeh, our former PostDoctoral fellow (2013-2015), for being appointed Assistant Professor of the Department of Bioresource Engineering at McGill as of August 2015!