The outsized nanomaterials — carbon nanotubes and asbestos fibers, which can sometimes be larger than the cells themselves — get stuck partway through the cell membrane, said the author, Huajian Gao, ...

Gao co-authored the study with Haofei Zhou, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown, along with Quingson Pan, Qiuhong Lu and Lei Lu from the Chinese Academy of Science.

“It becomes essential to understand how the micro, nanostructure controls the property of metals,” said Huajian Gao, professor of engineering and co-lead researcher of the study. The symmetry of ...

However, things do not quite work out this way when it comes to very thin tubes, wires and fibres, say Huajian Gao and colleagues at Brown University. Optical-microscope techniques such as in situ ...

Gao's research group has worked extensively on nanotwinned metals, ... Haofei Zhou, Qiuhong Lu, Huajian Gao, Lei Lu. History-independent cyclic response of nanotwinned metals. Nature, 2017; DOI: ...

This work, says Huajian Gao, a professor of engineering at Brown University, who was not involved in this work, “shows a promising direction of bringing the strength of 2-D materials and the ...

According to Brown University’s Dr. Huajian Gao–who is not associated with the study–this supermaterial has all the features needed to be “used in cars, airplanes, buildings–any ...

In a paper published in Nature, Huajian Gao and researchers from the University of Alabama and China report a new mechanism that governs the peak strength of nanostructured metals.

To evade that tradeoff, Gao and his colleagues introduced a new twist—literally—on the deformation process. Instead of deforming the steel by hammering it or bending it, Gao and his colleagues ...

Ceramic materials tend to shatter when deformed, but new research shows a way of using ultra-thin ceramic nanofibers to make squishy, heat-resistant sponges with a wide variety of potential uses.

Gao Huajian – who has been honoured with some of the top prizes in solid mechanics over four decades at prominent universities in the US, Europe and Asia – received his appointment letter in ...