(2010) Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
(2009) William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, University of Pittsburgh.
PhD, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 2006
MS, Industrial Engineering, Purdue Univeristy, 2002
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2000
Babaei, M., Gao, J., Clement, A., Dayal, K., & Shankar, M.R. (2021). Torque-dense photomechanical actuation. SOFT MATTER, 17(5), 1258-1266.Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). doi: 10.1039/d0sm01352h.
Clement, A., Babaei, M., Phadikar, J., Lee, D.W., Skandani, A.A., & Shankar, M.R. (2021). Complexity from simplicity: Confinement directs morphogenesis and motility in nematic polymers. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 47, 101362.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.eml.2021.101362.
Gao, J., Clement, A., Tabrizi, M., & Shankar, M.R. (2021). Molecularly Directed, Geometrically Latched, Impulsive Actuation Powers Sub-Gram Scale Motility. ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, 2100979.Wiley. doi: 10.1002/admt.202100979.
Martinez, A., Clement, A., Gao, J., Kocherzat, J., Tabrizi, M., & Shankar, M.R. (2021). Thermomechanically active electrodes power work-dense soft actuators. SOFT MATTER, 17(6), 1521-1529.Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). doi: 10.1039/d0sm01399d.
Wang, Q., Shankar, R.M., & Liu, Z. (2021). Visco-plastic self-consistent modeling of crystallographic texture evolution related to slip systems activated during machining Ti-6AL-4V. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 853, 157336.Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.157336.
Saed, M.O., Ambulo, C.P., Kim, H., De, R., Raval, V., Searles, K., Siddiqui, D.A., Cue, J.M.O., Stefan, M.C., Shankar, M.R., & Ware, T.H. (2019). Molecularly‐Engineered, 4D‐Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(3), 1806412.Wiley. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201806412.
Tabrizi, M., Ware, T.H., & Shankar, M.R. (2019). Voxelated Molecular Patterning in Three-Dimensional Freeforms. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 11(31), 28236-28245.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b04480.
Ambulo, C.P., Burroughs, J.J., Boothby, J.M., Kim, H., Shankar, M.R., & Ware, T.H. (2017). Four-dimensional Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 9(42), 37332-37339.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b11851.
Shankar, M.R., Smith, M.L., Tondiglia, V.P., Lee, K.M., McConney, M.E., Wang, D.H., Tan, L.S., & White, T.J. (2013). Contactless, photoinitiated snap-through in azobenzene-functionalized polymers. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 110(47), 18792-18797.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1313195110.