Our group attended 2023 AIAA SciTech and presented four papers: A Multifunctional Bistable Ultrathin Composite Boom for In-Space Monitoring of Deployment Dynamics Yao Yao, Alexander Ambruso, Juan M. Fernandez, Sven G. Bilén and Xin Ning AIAA 2023-2400. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-2400 Origami-Inspired Deployable Electromagnetic Waveguides
Our group was recently awarded two grants respectively from NASA and ONR. The NASA project will be focused on soft electronics for space structures that can enable thermal actuation, control, and monitoring of ultrathin morphable composite tiles/joints. The ONR grant
Our group recently received a few grants including: A three-year grant from AFOSR that supports our work on multifunctional deployable space structures. Dr. Sven Bilén serves as a collaborator/senior personnel for this effort. A seed grant funded by Penn State
Dr. Ning was selected to receive the 2022 ONR Young Investigator Award. The announcement and list of awardees can be found below: https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/2918053/best-and-brightest-onrs-2022-young-investigators/ https://www.nre.navy.mil/education-outreach/sponsored-research/yip/2022-young-investigators
Here are some of our group’s recent publications: Ultra‐Flexible Visible‐Blind Optoelectronics for Wired and Wireless UV Sensing in Harsh Environments Guanghui Li, Yao Yao, Nikhil Ashok, Xin Ning Advanced Materials Technologies A Data-Driven Framework for Buckling Analysis of Near-Spherical Composite
Our recent work on ultra-flexible, visible-blind UV sensors for harsh environment was selected as the cover article of the Sept 2021 issue of Advanced Materials Technologies. Check out the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.202170049
June 2020. NSF (EPMD, ECCS Division) recently awarded us an EAGER grant to support our work on wearable sensors for monitoring the health status of COVID-19 patients. The objective of this project is to advance the knowledge of design and
November 2019. The Penn State News, PSU’s official campus-wide newsletter, reported our on-going mission to advance multifunctional foldable structures that can be potentially used in future space exploration. It also highlighted Dr. Ning’s new course “Deployable Structures”, which integrated teaching
Dr. Ning was selected to receive the Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Selected by the executive committee of the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of ASME, the award is bestowed in recognition of
Dr. Ning’s co-authored paper “Skin-Integrated Wireless Haptic Interfaces for Virtual and Augmented Reality” was accepted by Nature! This was a project that he worked on during his postdoctoral studies with Dr. John Rogers, and he is a contributing author of
