https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu Mechanical Engineering | University of Utah Sat, 03 May 2025 18:57:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 161238322 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2022/04/06/ph-d-student-josh-fernquists-poster-places-second-in-tms-competition/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2022/04/06/ph-d-student-josh-fernquists-poster-places-second-in-tms-competition/#respond Wed, 06 Apr 2022 20:40:37 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=781 nd in the Biological Materials Science Poster Session at the 2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition for his poster titled, “”Improved structural and mechanical performance of iron oxide scaffolds freeze cast under oscillating magnetic fields”]]> https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2022/04/06/ph-d-student-josh-fernquists-poster-places-second-in-tms-competition/feed/ 0 781 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2021/06/15/max-mrozs-paper-selected-as-jom-editors-choice/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2021/06/15/max-mrozs-paper-selected-as-jom-editors-choice/#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:31:29 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=698 “Biotemplating of a Highly Porous Cellulose-Silica Composite from Apium graveolens by a Low-Toxicity Sol-Gel Technique” was selected as a JOM Editor’s Choice article for June 2021. The article is available for free download on the JOM Editor’s Choice webiste.]]> https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2021/06/15/max-mrozs-paper-selected-as-jom-editors-choice/feed/ 0 698 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/06/19/lab-research-featured-on-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/06/19/lab-research-featured-on-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:11:44 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=627 “Impact protection potential of mammalian hair: Testing the pugilism hypothesis of human facial hair” (Integrative Organismal Biology, 2020) were featured on the June 17^th, 2020 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.]]> https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/06/19/lab-research-featured-on-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/feed/ 0 627 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/03/05/undergraduate-researchers-win-best-presenter-award-at-2019-asme-imece/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/03/05/undergraduate-researchers-win-best-presenter-award-at-2019-asme-imece/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:48:02 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=594 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/03/05/undergraduate-researchers-win-best-presenter-award-at-2019-asme-imece/feed/ 0 594 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/03/05/ph-d-student-tony-yin-places-second-in-tms-2020-poster-competition/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/03/05/ph-d-student-tony-yin-places-second-in-tms-2020-poster-competition/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2020 22:11:18 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=586 nd in the Biological Materials Science Poster Session at the 2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition for his poster titled, “Microsphere calcium phosphate cements to improve injectability and 3D-printability of dental biomaterials”]]> https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2020/03/05/ph-d-student-tony-yin-places-second-in-tms-2020-poster-competition/feed/ 0 586 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/carl-fauver-b-s-19-selected-for-the-los-alamos-national-laboratory-dynamics-summer-school/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/carl-fauver-b-s-19-selected-for-the-los-alamos-national-laboratory-dynamics-summer-school/#respond Wed, 10 May 2017 17:22:41 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=251 Carl Fauver is one of two students from the U and of the 21 students selected nationally for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Dynamics Summer School (LADSS). He will be partnered with a LANL staff member as a mentor for an intense nine-week research activity on a three-person multidisciplinary team. Fauver is a double major with his second major in applied mathematics, and is advised by mechanical engineering assistant professor Steven Naleway in the Bioinspired Lab. From Salt Lake, Fauver graduated valedictorian from West Jordan High. Here in ME, his research involves using magnetic fields to control the manufacturing of porous ceramic materials in freeze casting. For the future, he is interested in researching clean water solutions, material synthesis, and machine learning.]]> https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/carl-fauver-b-s-19-selected-for-the-los-alamos-national-laboratory-dynamics-summer-school/feed/ 0 251 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/naleway-raeymakers-receive-rif-award-for-new-nanoindenter/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/naleway-raeymakers-receive-rif-award-for-new-nanoindenter/#respond Wed, 10 May 2017 15:18:38 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=249 Mechanical engineering assistant professor, Steven Naleway (principle investigator — PI) and associate professor, Bart Raeymaekers (co-PI) received a Research Instrumentation Fund (RIF) grant from the University of Utah Office of the Vice President for Research. The grant, for $49,500, is supplemented with generous cost share from the University of Utah Manufacturing Engineering Partnership Center, the Utah Nanofab, several faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and a large donation-in-kind from Hysitron to acquire a new Hysitron TI Premier nanoindenter. The RIF grant was made possible by the enthusiastic support of faculty from four different departments. The nanoindenter will be housed at the Utah Nanofab, available to all university researchers and local industry. It will bring the capability to accurately determine mech]]> https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/naleway-raeymakers-receive-rif-award-for-new-nanoindenter/feed/ 0 249 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/profs-steven-naleway-bart-raeymaekers-receive-352k-nsf-grant/ https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/profs-steven-naleway-bart-raeymaekers-receive-352k-nsf-grant/#respond Wed, 10 May 2017 15:15:33 +0000 https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/?p=244 Congratulations to Assistant Prof. Steven Naleway (PI) and Associate Prof. Bart Raeymaekers (co-PI) for receiving a new $352K NSF grant from the Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) within CMMI division. The objective of this research is to conduct basic research on a new manufacturing process that combines freeze casting and ultrasound directed self-assembly, and the mechanical properties of the resulting porous, engineered materials fabricated using this process. To demonstrate the process, a new experimental setup will be built that allows for freeze casting and ultrasound directed self-assembly to simultaneously control the fabrication of an engineered material. Experiments will be carried out that demonstrate the process by testing ceramic (TiO2, Al2O3, and ZrO2), polymeric (chitosan), and metallic (Ti) constituent materials at concentrations of 10 to 20 vol.% and particle sizes of 0.2 to 20 micrometers. The specimen-to-specimen statistical variability of these materials will be investigated. Finally, bio-inspired microstructures will be manufactured by varying the ultrasound directed self-assembly frequency between 0.5 to 10 MHz, initially using TiO2 as the material. In all cases, the extent to which the materials have been tailored will be structurally imaged and analyzed using SEM and micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), and mechanically tested in compression. Profs. Naleway and Raeymaekers point out that lightweight and strong structures are needed for many engineering applications such as aerospace composites, biomedical implants, and advanced robotics. Existing techniques for creating these structures are often limited to specific types of materials (such as polymers for fused deposition modeling), and therefore cannot work for all applications where different material properties might be necessary. This award supports fundamental research into the combination of freeze casting, which uses growing ice crystals to create porous structures, and ultrasound directed self-assembly, which uses pressure waves to align and strengthen structures. This combined process will be used with ceramic (TiO2, Al2O3, and ZrO2), polymer (chitosan), and metal (Ti) materials to create lightweight and strong structures. Specifically, experiments will be conducted that demonstrate the basic science involved, including a proof-of-concept of the process, careful measurement of material properties, a measure of the statistical variability of the structures created by this process, and the ability to use this process to make strong structures out of TiO2 ceramics that use bio-inspired microstructures. The results of this work will be a new manufacturing process that can be used to create lightweight and strong structures out of ceramics, metals, and polymers. Once demonstrated, the project has direct applicability to biomedical implants, high strength-low density structural composite materials for robotics, and water filtration systems, among many others. This award will train three graduate students and numerous undergraduate students researchers who will gain valuable experience and have the opportunity to publish and present their research. This award will also fund an interactive module on advanced material fabrication and bioinspired design as part of a summer camp for high school girls aimed at increasing the participation of women and minorities in engineering. At the completion of this award, this module will be converted into a self-contained workshop that will be available for K-12 teachers to bring these concepts to their classrooms.]]> https://bioinspired.mech.utah.edu/2017/05/10/profs-steven-naleway-bart-raeymaekers-receive-352k-nsf-grant/feed/ 0 244