10/2024    

Dr. Shakurur Rahman passed his PhD Defense. 

Congratulations Shakurur!

06/2024    

Dr. Lei Wu passed his PhD Defense.                  

Congratulations Lei!

06/2024 

Damiano is invited to lead a panel with Ben Fitzgerald (Director of Operations, Aston Martin Formula One) on the design process of Aston Martin car and the use of the mechanical metamaterials developed with his group as a potential solution for a greener F1 car technology  

05/2024 

Damiano received the Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence of the Faculty of Engineering at McGill. This award recognizes excellence in research by a faculty member in the Faculty of Engineering. 

05/2024 

“The Conversation” publisher solicited Damiano to write an article on reprogrammable matter. The article entitled “ How a futuristic material is able to change its properties from soft to rigid, and back again” presents morphing reprogrammability as a material strategy to achieved multifunctionality.

01/2024 

Our research on origami and kirigami metamaterials has been featured in the TV program Discovery (Découverte) of CBC/Radio-Canada in a 10-minute video.

Congratulations!

12/2023

Our paper on zero power shape retention published in Advanced Materials received the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet Award. 

Congratulations, Shakurur, for this achievement!

12/2023

The article: Origami: Le Futur des Materiaux by Charles Prémont features our work on origami metamaterials in Quebec Science.

Congratulations Amin and Morad!

09/2023

Our paper Bistable Auxetic Materials was featured in a video entitled “Self-assembling material pops into 3D” by Steve Mould, a science journalist notable for making science-related educational videos on his YouTube channel. 

09/2023

Our work on in-situ Activation of Snap-through Instability published in Advanced Materials has been selected as Journal cover. 

Congratulations Lei!

06/2023 

Our paper "Topological transformation with emerging zero modes in multistable metamaterials for reprogrammable flexural stiffness, published in Physical Review Applied, is selected as a highlight in the Editors’ suggestion section.

Congratulations Lei!

04/2023

 Our work on contact-induced snapping metamaterials has been selected and featured in Advanced Functional Materials. 

Congratulations Ruizhe!

02/2023 

Our paper Shape memory mechanical metamaterials, published in Materials Today, was selected by the Editor as the subject of a dedicated article entitled “Polymeric metamaterials remember to take shape fast” by Dr Cordelia Sealy.  Congratulations, Hang!

05/2022

 Our article “Rigidly flat-foldable class of lockable origami-inspired metamaterials with topological stiff states” appearing in Nature Communications has been featured as Editor’s Highlight.

Congratulations Amin and Morad!

03/2022 

Damiano received the Samuel & Ida Fromson Teaching Award of the Faculty of Engineering, recognizing Outstanding Teaching Performance in the past year. 

09/2021

Damiano is awarded the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in mechanical metamaterials

07/2021

 The work from Chuan Qiao on soft pneumatic actuators has recently been featured as the frontispiece of the journal “Advanced Science”.

Congratulations Chuan!

09/2020 

Damiano is invited to give an OnDemand Webinar organized by the Materials Research Society (MRS) on “Additive Manufacturing of Metals: Complex Microstructures and Architecture Design".

5/2020 

Our paper on Autonomic self-healing of conducting polymer films published in Advanced Functional Materials in collaboration with Prof Cicoira's group was selected as inside journal cover with a dedicated article. Congratulations! 

10/2019

Damiano is invited to give an OnDemand Webinar organized by the Materials Research Society (MRS) on “Three-Dimensional Architected Materials and Structures”, hosted by Prof. V. Deshpande (University of Cambridge) and Prof. Greer (California Institute of Technology). 

03/2019

 Damiano is awarded the James McGill Professorship in recognition of its research. The James McGill Professorship is the McGill's equivalent to the Canada Research Chair (Tier 1).

09/2018

We received the 2017 Award for "Excellence in Basic, Clinical, and Translational Science" from the Journal of Orthopaedic Research in recognition of our work on orthopedic implants.

Congratulations Sajad and Burnett!

08/2018

Our work on Bistable Auxetics along with recent advances in the emerging field of Mechanical Metamaterials is featured in a recent article by Devin Powell in PNAS. Read the full article here.

Congratulations Ahmad!

06/2018

Damiano received the appointment as Louis-Ho Scholar of the Faculty of Engineering in Technological Innovation in recognition of exceptional work and outstanding achievements.

05/2018

 We received the 3rd Hakim prize for innovation (Hakim Family Innovation Prize: Most Transformative Innovation) recognizing our patented work on load-bearing mechanically biocompatible implants.

Congratulations Sajad and Burnett!

02/2018

Our invited article on Durable Bistable Auxetics Made of Rigid Solids published in the Focus Issue: Architected Materials of the Journal of Material Research has been featured in the MRS Bulletin with a dedicated article “Kirigami art and geometric manipulation transform rigid solids to flexible auxetic materials”.

Congratulations Xiao!

11/2017

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

Congratulations Sajad and Burnett!

08/2017 

Our work on Bistable Auxetics is featured in a recent article entitled Embracing Failure by Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope and Marcelo Dias in the August 2017 issue of PhysicsWorld Magazine. The full article is here.

Congratulations Ahmad!

02/2017

Our work on "Morphology of elastic nematic liquid crystal membranes"  published in Soft Matter has been featured as Journal cover.

Congratulations Pardis!

09/2016

Our work on "Fully porous 3D printed titanium femoral stem to reduce stress-shielding following total hip arthroplasty" published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research,  has been featured in several international outlets including Orthopedics This Week, Science Alerts, and ScienceDaily. 

Congratulations Sajad and Burnett!

06/2016

Our work on Snapping Metamaterials published in Advanced Materials has been featured as Journal frontispiece.

Congratulations Ahamad!

04/2016

Our work on Multiple Wavelength Surface Patterns published in Soft Matter has been featured as Journal cover.

Congratulations Pardis!

03/2016

Our work on Bistable Auxetic Kirigami published in Extreme Mechanics has been featured on BBC and several other international outlets.

Congratulations Ahmad!

08/2015

Our work on Tunable Nano-wrinkling of Chiral Surfaces: Structure and Diffraction Optics  in the Journal of Chemical Physics  has been featured in the Journal Cover.

Congratulations Pardis!

5/2015 

We won the 1st prize at the Dobson Cup Competition (Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurship) in the category of Innovation Driven Track (among 237 international participants) in recognition of our architected porous implant for hip replacement. Congratulations Sajad and Burnett!

04/2015

Our paper and patents on orthopaedic implants won the first prize for “Innovation Catalyst in Engineering” via the William and Rhea Seath Awards program, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University! 

Congratulations Sajad and Burnett!

04/2015

Damiano receives another research award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to spend 6 months in the Department of Physics of the University of Berlin (Germany).

04/2012

Damiano receives a year research award for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to spend in the Department of Physics of the University of Berlin (Germany).