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Megan Valentine

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Co-Director, California Nanosystems Institute
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
+1 805-893-2594
Email:
valentine@engineering.ucsb.edu
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Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

The Valentine Research Group focuses on understanding how forces are generated and transmitted in living materials, how these forces control cellular outcomes, and how we can capture the extraordinary features of living systems in manmade materials. This highly interdisciplinary experimental work lies at the intersection of engineering, physics, biology and chemistry.

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ICB Supported Publications

Molecular-scale substrate anisotropy, crowding and division drive collective behaviours in cell monolayers

Yimin Luo, Mengyang Gu, Minwook Park, Xinyi Fang, Younghoon Kwon, Juan Manuel Uruena, Javier Read de Alaniz, Matthew E. Helgeson, M. Cristina Marchetti and Megan T. Valentine
Journal of the Royal Society Interface,
10.1098/rsif.2023.0160

3D-printed polymer foams maintain stiffness and energy dissipation under repeated loading

Younghoon Kwon, Soyoung E. Seo, Jaejun Lee, Szabolcs Berezvai, Javier Read de Alaniz, Claus D. Eisenbach, Robert M. McMeeking, Craig J. Hawker, Megan T. Valentine
Composites Communications,
10.1016/j.coco.2022.101453

Role of Material Composition in Photothermal Actuation of DASABased Polymers

Miranda M. Sroda, Jaejun Lee, Younghoon Kwon, Friedrich Stricker, Minwook Park, Megan T. Valentine and Javier Read de Alaniz
ACS Applied Polymer Materials,
10.1021/acsapm.1c01108

Three-Dimensional Photochemical Printing of Thermally Activated Polymer Foams

Soyoung E. SeoSoyoung E. Seo, Younghoon Kwon, Neil D. Dolinski, Caitlin S. Sample, Jeffrey L. Self, Christopher M. Bates, Megan T. Valentine and Craig J. Hawker
ACS Appied Polymer Materials,
10.1021/acsapm.1c00726

Influence of Polarity Change and Photophysical Effects on Photosurfactant-Driven Wetting

Serena Seshadri, Sophia J. Bailey, Lei Zhao, Julia Fisher, Miranda Sroda, Michelle Chiu,
Friedrich Stricker, Megan T. Valentine, Javier Read de Alaniz and Matthew E. Helgeson
LANGMUIR,
10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c00769

Tough Multimaterial Interfaces through Wavelength-Selective 3DPrinting

Neil D. Dolinski, E. Benjamin Callaway, Caitlin S. Sample, Luke F. Gockowski, Roberto Chavez, Zachariah A. Page, Fabian Eisenreich, Stefan Hecht, Megan T. Valentine, Frank W. Zok and Craig J. Hawker
Applied Materials & Interfaces,
10.1021/acsami.1c06062

Tunable Photothermal Actuation Enabled by Photoswitching of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts

Jaejun Lee, Miranda M. Sroda, Younghoon Kwon, Sara El-Arid, Serena Seshadri, Luke F. Gockowski, Elliot W. Hawkes, Megan T. Valentine, and Javier Read de Alaniz
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,
10.1021/acsami.0c15116

Self-regulating photochemical Rayleigh-Bénard convection using a highly-absorbing organic photoswitch

Serena Seshadri, Luke F. Gockowski, Jaejun Lee, Miranda Sroda, Matthew E. Helgeson, Javier Read de Alaniz & Megan T. Valentine
Nature Communications,
10.1038/s41467-020-16277-7

Engineering crack tortuosity in printed polymer-polymer composites through ordered pores

Luke F. Gockowski, Neil D. Dolinski, Roberto Chavez, Noy Cohen, Fabian Eisenreich, Stefan Hecht, Robert M. McMeeking, Craig J. Hawker, Megan T. Valentine
Materials Horizons,
10.1039/d0mh00331j
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