July 31, 2023

Mizzou Engineers create novel approach to control energy waves in fourth dimension

In recent years scientists like Guoliang Huang, the Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering, have explored a “fourth dimension” (4D), or synthetic dimension, as an extension of our current physical reality.

May 18, 2023

Smart material prototype challenges Newton’s laws of motion

For more than 10 years, Guoliang Huang, the Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been investigating the unconventional properties of “metamaterials” — an artificial material that exhibits properties not commonly found in nature as defined by Newton’s laws of motion — in his long-term pursuit of designing an ideal metamaterial. Huang’s goal is to help control the “elastic” energy waves traveling through larger structures — such as an aircraft — without light and small “metastructures.”

Nov. 3, 2021

Creating an artificial material that can sense, adapt to its environment

Researchers have developed a metamaterial that can respond to its environment, independently make a decision, and perform an action not directed by a human being.

Nov. 1, 2021

Chemical Engineer using metamaterials to harvest terahertz energy

A Mizzou Engineer is working on a way to harvest this terahertz energy using three-dimensional metamaterials

June 21, 2021

MAE alumnus to be professor at Hong Kong university

Research assistant professor Yangyang Chen Yangyang Chen, a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will begin his faculty career at a world-renowned institution. He is going to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), rated the 56th best university in the world in 2021, according to Times Higher Education. “I’m very glad to have this opportunity to work at a top university in the world and to further my career”, he said. Chen, PhD ‘17, explained that HKUST is like most universities in the United States. It is a four-year research institution with very similar regulations.

May 21, 2020

New Cloaking Material Could Protect Buildings, Soldiers

Stealth technology, the idea of reducing the ability of the enemy to detect an object, has driven advances in military research for decades. Today, aircraft, naval ships and submarines, missiles and satellites are often covered with radar-absorbent material, such as paint, to hide or cloak them from radar, sonar, infrared and other detection methods. A cloak is a coating material that makes an object indistinguishable from its surroundings or undetectable by external field measurements.