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Doctoral student Reginald Hamilton is investigating how changes in stress and temperature transform the crystal structure of shape memory metal alloys.
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Mechanical Signals Take the Fast Track
Researchers from MechSE and the Department of Bioengineering have discovered that mechanical signals travel through living cells more quickly and through a different pathway than hormones, pharmaceuticals and other chemical signals do. The alternative pathway was described in an April Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper by MechSE professor Ning Wang. Other authors included Yingxiao Wang, assistant professor of bioengineering, and MechSE researchers Sungsoo Na, Olivier Collin, Farhan Chowdhury and Bernard Tay, and bioengineering student Mingxing Ouyang.
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