Professor Igor Bargatin, Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Working with his team at the University of Pennsylvania, PICS affiliated professor Igor Bargatin, Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, has developed a “nanocardboard.” This nanocardboard is more than 10,000 times stiffer than a solid sheet of aluminum oxide while keeping the same mass, and most impressively, it can recover its shape after repeated bending.
His paper, “Nanocardboard as a Nanoscale Analog of hollow Sandwich Plates,” was published on October 25, 2018 in Nature Communications.