- After spending last summer as an REU, Oreva joined the group as a Ph.D. student in Spet 2023. Welcome, and congrats to Oreva on receiving both the NSF and Penn Presidential Graduate Fellowships!
- Prof. Bargatin becomes a NIAC fellow. NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts is a federal program focused on the most innovative aerospace concepts.
- Oreva Omodior joined us in the summer of 2022 for the Singh Center REU program to research porous ceramic spacers for thermionic energy converters and won best poster at the final presentations!
- Our recent papers on interstellar lightsail design are covered by Penn Today, Forbes, CNET, NSF, Astronomy Magazine, and many other outlets.
- Matt Campbell recently talked about our research on the How To Build A Dyson Sphere podcast
- Our photophoretic levitation work was selected as one of the breakthroughs of the year by the Falling Walls foundation!
- Congrats to Wujoon Cha and Mohsen Azadi, both of whom recently defended their Ph.D. theses!
- Congrats to Mohsen Azadi, who received the best presentation award at the 1st International Conference on Micromachines and Application (ICMA 2021)
- Our review of thermionic energy conversion literature is published in Advanced Science
- Our paper on controlled photophoretic levitation is published in Science Advances and featured by Wired.com, ScienceNews.org, NewScientist.com, InsideScience.org, Phys.org, Smithsonian Magazine, DailyMail, German and Canadian public radio, Popular Mechanics, Physics World, Eos, Science News for Students, and other popular science outlets
- Our paper on atmospheric-pressure radiometer is published by JMEMS and featured on Penn Engineering blog and social networks
- Congrats to Tom Celenza for getting the NASA graduate fellowship!
- Our paper on photophoretic levitation is published by Advanced Materials and is featured in a Penn press release as well as multiple news outlets including Popular Mechanics, Daily Mail, The Times of London, space.com, and National Science Foundation’s Youtube Channel
- Congrats to John Cortes, who became the second PhD graduate of the Bargatin group!
- Our research is featured in Penn Today
- Prof. Bargatin received the Penn Engineering teaching award!
- Prof. Bargatin received the NSF CAREER award to continue the work on photophoretic levitation!
- Congrats to Mohsen Azadi for getting the 2019 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students!
- Our work on nanocardboard is published in Nature Communications and is featured in a Penn press release and various news outlets.
- Congrats to Chen Lin for successfully defending his Ph.D. and becoming the first doctorate graduate of the group!
- Plate mechanical metamaterials is the winning technology of the 2017 Y-Prize and the president’s innovation prize!
- John received the MEAM Outstanding Teaching Assistant award!
- Penn Engineering magazine published a profile of Prof. Bargatin in the spring 2016 issue
- Our work on ultrathin materials is published in Nature Communications and is featured in a Penn press release, in the February 2016 issue of ASME Mechanical Engineering magazine, as well as by Phys.org, ScienceDaily, PhillyVoice, DailyMail, Gizmag, Geek.com, and other news outlets.
- The videos of our ultrathin plates (a.k.a. plate mechanical metamaterials) are now available on YouTube
- Our work on thermionic energy conversion was selected for funding by ARPA-E (in collaboration with Stanford, Berkeley, and Spark Thermionics)
- Keivan and John got an award for the best artistic image at Penn Nanoday!
University of Pennsylvania Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics