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Our research is featured by MIT ILP
MIT's Industry Liaison Program (ILP) features our research on their front page.Link to full storyLink to video
We receive the 2022 NSF CAREER Award!
We are honored to receive the CAREER award from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MoMS) program, to continue our explorations on the mechanics of self-architected materials.
Rachel joins our group
Rachel Sun has joined the Portela Group after graduating from Caltech, a brief internship at Tesla, and receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! She will be exploring the mechanics and fabrication of reconfigurable metamaterials. Welcome, Rachel!
See our work highlighted by MIT News
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Our nanoarchitected impact work appears in Nature Materials
We are proud to share this collaborative effort with the Nelson Group at MIT.
‘Best Oral Presentation’ at MRS Spring 2021
We were recognized for our Carlos' presentation at MRS Spring 2021
Somu experiences Zero-G
Very happy to see our students pursue their passion! Pictured is our very own Somu Dhulipala on his long-awaited Zero-G flight. Way to go!
Dr. Yun Kai joins our group
Dr. Kai has joined the Portela Group as a Postdoctoral Associate. He will apply his ultrafast optics expertise to study the mechanical response of architected materials fabricated in our group.
We installed our Nanoscribe PPGT2!
The Portela Group is happy to announce that we have received and installed our Nanoscribe tool in state-of-the-art facilities at MIT.nano. We look forward to exploring new architectures with this tool.
Somu joins our group
Somayajulu Dhulipala has just joined the Portela Group. He has successfully completed his master's thesis at MIT MechE and will be exploring experimental and computational aspects of self-assembled architected materials.