对新型软体材料、柔性机器人、智能控制、智能医疗等方向感兴趣的同学,并且想读博士的同学,可以直接联系Hamed Shahsavan(hshahsav@uwaterloo.ca),老师人超级nice。每年有两个名额,本广告长期有效,详细请见课题组网站 https://www.shahsavanlab.ca/
课题组简介:
在SMART-Lab,我们主要专注于新型软性和可编程材料的开发,我们的目标是将这些材料用于设计和制造新一代的移动软性机器人、功能设备和人工生物体。我们的目标是将这些材料应用于设计和制造新一代的移动软机器人、功能设备和人工生物体。
我们利用分子工程、化学、材料科学和微/纳米技术等多学科的知识,创造出具有程序化对外部线索(如热、光、电和磁场)反应的智能材料。
我们设想这类材料可以增强现有医疗机器人系统的运动和操纵能力。此外,它们还可以成为开发新一代医疗微型机器人、软微型生物装置和人工生物体的绝佳候选材料。
老师简介:
Dr. Hamed Shahsavan is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering and nanotechnology from the University of Waterloo in 2017. In his graduate studies, Dr. Shahsavan's research was focused on the fabrication and characterization of bioinspired micro/nanostructured surfaces and their implications in fundamental studies of contact mechanics, and interfacial phenomena, such as adhesion, friction, and wetting. Fascinated by the rapidly growing fields of soft robotics and smart materials, he moved to Stuttgart in Germany, to embark on his postdoctoral research as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. In this period, he mainly focused on the synthesis of different types of liquid crystalline elastomers, networks and gels to deploy them as shape-change programmable materials in soft robots and devices at millimeter to micrometer scale. During his PhD studies, Dr. Shahsavan was a visiting scholar in the Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, OH, USA. He was also a visiting scientist in the Smart Photonic Materials (SPM) research group at the University of Tampere in Finland. His current research interests revolve around the development of a variety of soft, stimuli-responsive, and programmable materials, and different fabrication methods for the manufacturing of small-scale mobile robots and devices. |