Megan Valentine

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Co-Director, California Nanosystems Institute

UC Santa Barbara

+1 805-893-2594

valentine@engineering.ucsb.edu

Website

Research Focus Areas

Biologically-Enabled Materials

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.

News

Megan Valentine and Michael Chabinyc are elected fellows of the American Physical Society

Displaying 1 - 9 of 9

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, 2023

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, 2022

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, 2022

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, 2021

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, 2021

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, 2021

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, 2020

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, 2020

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, 2020

10.1039/d0mh00331j