Flexible Research Group

• Jonathan Hopkins wins the 2021 JMR Best Paper Award, UCLA Samueli Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, 05/10/22

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• Announcing the 2021 Best Paper Award and Honorable Mention, ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 04/18/22

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• UCLA Researchers Develop New Hydrogel Material for Soft Robots, Daily Bruin, 10/05/21

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• Jonathan Hopkins Elected a Fellow of ASME, UCLA Samueli Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering News, 06/23/21

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• UCLA Professor Launches YouTube Channel on Compliant Mechanisms, UCLA Samueli Newsroom, 06/10/21

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• Soft Focus: A Flexible Future for Robots, UCLA Newsroom Magazine, 06/01/21

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• Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing, Nature Communications features journal article, “Additively Manufacturable Micro-Mechanical Logic Gates,” in their collection, 08/17/20

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• Phase-Changing Metamaterials: A New Frontier in Technology, Advanced Science News, 10/21/19

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• Soft Material Research Provides Flexibility for New Engineering, Biotechnology, Daily Bruin, 06/09/19

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• Editors’ Choice, for the Precision Engineering journal article titled, “A Review of Micromirror Arrays.” The article will be featured on the Elsevier website until 09/13/19, Elsevier, 05/09/19

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• The Future is Flexible (and Squishy), UCLA Samueli School of Engineering News, 04/25/19    

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• Researchers Look to Computing’s Past to Unlock 3D-Printed Mechanical Logic Gates for Future, ECN, 02/22/19

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• Researchers Look to Computing’s Past to Unlock 3-D-Printed Mechanical Logic Gates for the Future, Tech Xplore, 02/21/19

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• Researchers Combine Old-school Logic Gates with 3D Printing to Create ‘Sentient’ Materials, www.3ders.org, 02/21/19

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• Researchers Look to Computing’s Past to Unlock 3D-Printed Mechanical Logic Gates for the Future, Technology.org, 02/21/19

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• LLNL Researchers 3D Print ‘Sentient’ Logic Gates Inspired by Original Computers, 3D Printed Media Network, 02/20/19

 

• Combining Mechanical Computing with 3D Printing to Create ‘Sentient’ Materials, Gyges 3D, 02/20/19

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• LLNL Researchers Reach into Computing’s Past to Build ‘Sentient’ Material, News Wise, 02/20/19

 

• Lawrence Livermore Researchers Explore ‘Sentient’ Materials with 3D Printing, 3D Printing Industry, 02/20/19

 

• Combining Mechanical Computing with 3D Printing to Create ‘Sentient’ Materials, nano werk, 02/20/19

 

• Sentient Materials: LLNL Print Environmentally Intuitive Logic Gates, 3D Printing.com, 02/20/19

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• Microscale Printable Parts, Now Spring-loaded, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering News, 01/15/19

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• New Material that Retains Stiffness While Changing Shape Developed, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering News, 12/10/18​

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• Jonathan Hopkins, Keynote Speaker at the 4th IEEE/IFToMM International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR) Delft 2018, 01/01/18

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• Research image featured on the cover of Nature 

       Reviews Materials from Jonathan Hopkins’ paper titled 

       "Multistable Shape-reconfigurable Architectured Materials,”

       Nature Reviews Materials, 2(11), 11/01/17.

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• Jonathan Hopkins, Ali Hatamizadeh, and Adam Song Win the Theoretical Contributions in Compliant Mechanisms Award at ASME IDETC, UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News, 08/14/17

 

• Jonathan Hopkins’ paper titled, “Scanning Holographic Optical Tweezers,” is highlighted in Optics Letters as an Editor’s Pick, OSA Publishing, 07/14/17

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• Manufacturing Ideas to Watch – Optical-tweezers-based Additive Fabrication, MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight, 05/12/17

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• UCLA Engineering Celebrates Students, Faculty, Alumni at Annual Awards Dinner, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science News, 02/28/17.

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• Celebrating National Engineers Week 2017: Faculty Honorees, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science News, 02/21/17.

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• Jonathan Hopkins’ paper titled “Synthesis of Precision Serial Flexure Systems Using Freedom and Constraint Topologies (FACT)” is declared one of the most cited journal articles in Precision Engineering since 2011, Elsevier, posted until 01/01/17.

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• LLNL Uses 3D Printing & Lightweight Metamaterials to Solve Thermal Mismatch Issues, 3DPRINT.com, 10/26/16.

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• 3D Printed Metamaterial Shrinks When Heated, Weekly Hot News, 10/26/16.

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• Heat Shrink 3D Printing Super Materials Can be Used for a Variety of Applications, Voyad, 10/26/16.

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• Scientists Develop Material That Shrinks When Heated, I4U News, 10/26/16.

 

• News Picks: Metamaterial Shrinks Rather than Expands When Heated, Physics Today, 10/26/16.

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• 3-D Printed Metamaterial Shrinks When Heated, Newstex, 10/25/16.

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• Researchers Develop 3D Printed Materials that Shrink When Heated, AZO Materials, 10/25/16.

 

• 3-D Printed Metamaterial Shrinks When Heated, Phys.org, 10/25/16.

 

• New Metamaterial Shrinks When the Heat is On, New Atlas, 10/25/16.

 

• Material that Shrinks in Heat Can Weather Extreme Temperatures, New Scientist, 10/25/16.

 

• 3-D-printed Structures Shrink When Heated, ScienceDaily, 10/25/16.

 

• 3-D-printed Structures Shrink When Heated, MIT News, 10/25/16.

 

• 3D Printed Metamaterial Shrinks When Heated, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory News, 10/24/16.

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• 3D Printed Metamaterial Shrinks When Heated, Could Boost Atomic-force Microscopes, www.3ders.org, 10/24/16

 

• Focus: 3D Structure Shrinks When Heated, APS Physics, 10/21/16.

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• Image featured on the inside back cover of Advanced

       Materials from Jonathan Hopkins’ paper titled “Multistable

       Shape-reconfigurable Architectured Materials,”

       Advanced Materials, 28(36), 09/22/16.

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• Jonathan Hopkins and Frederick Sun Win the 2016 Freudenstein/GM Young Investigator Award at ASME IDETC, UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News, 08/31/16.

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• Researchers Create Shape-shifting Materials, UCI Samueli School of Engineering News, 08/18/16.

 

• Shape-shifters Made with a Snap, Nature, 535: pp. 327, 07/20/16.

 

• Three NNSA Researchers Receive President’s Highest Early-career STEM Award, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) News, 05/05/16.

 

• An Active Microarchitectured Material with Programmable Properties, Materials Views, 04/01/16.

 

• Jonathan Hopkins acknowledged in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory News as a former postdoc for winning the PECASE Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory News, 02/24/16.

 

• Three UCLA Engineering Professors to be Awarded Highest Honors for Research, Daily Bruin, 02/22/16.

 

• Jonathan Hopkins Wins Nation’s Highest Honor for Young Researchers, UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News, 02/19/16.

 

• Jonathan Hopkins acknowledged in MIT News as a former MIT alum for winning the PECASE Award, MIT News, 02/19/16.

 

• President Obama Honors Extraordinary Early-Career Scientist, The White House Office of the Press Secretary, 02/18/16.

 

• Three Faculty Win PECASE: Highest Honor for Young Researchers in U.S., UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science News, 02/18/16.

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• Jonathan Hopkins’ two papers titled “Synthesis of Multi-degree of Freedom, Parallel Flexure System Concepts via Freedom and Constraint Topology (FACT)—Part I: Principles” and “Synthesis of Multi-degree of Freedom, Parallel Flexure System Concepts via Freedom and Constraint Topology (FACT)—Part II: Practice” are declared two of the most cited journal articles in Precision Engineering since 2010, Elsevier, posted until 01/01/16

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