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13080
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For establishing a research program on natureinspired materials that has gained a worldwide reputation while making a significant and broad impact on the fields of materials science, mechanics, and biology
  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors

Overview

Alfred J. Crosby is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and materials science, with a notable focus on mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, polymers and plastics, mechanics of materials, and materials chemistry.

Their work covers a range of topics including advanced materials and mechanics, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, adhesion, friction, and surface interactions, surface modification and superhydrophobicity, modular robots and swarm intelligence, polymer composites and self-healing, and cellular mechanics and interactions.

Among their recent scientific contributions are several papers published between 2020 and 2022:

  • "Autonomous snapping and jumping polymer gels" (2021, Nature Materials)
  • "Cavitation in soft matter" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Control of Astrocyte Quiescence and Activation in a Synthetic Brain Hydrogel" (2020, Advanced Healthcare Materials)
  • "Flower Inspiration: Broad-Angle Structural Color through Tunable Hierarchical Wrinkles in Thin Film Multilayers" (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "Fracture of model end-linked networks" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

They have frequently published in several scientific venues, including:

  • Soft Matter
  • Journal of Polymer Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Macromolecules

Alfred J. Crosby collaborates regularly with a group of co-authors who have contributed multiple times alongside them. Frequent co-authors include Gregory N. Tew, Hongbo Fu, Ryan C. Hayward, Shelly R. Peyton, and Todd Emrick.

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015 for establishing a research program on nature-inspired materials that spans materials science, mechanics, and biology. They are also a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors since 2014.

Best Publications

  • Polymer Nanocomposites: The “Nano” Effect on Mechanical Properties

    Alfred J. Crosby;Jong‐Young Lee

  • Surface wrinkles for smart adhesion

    Edwin P. Chan;Erica J. Smith;Ryan C. Hayward;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Fabricating Microlens Arrays by Surface Wrinkling

    Edwin P. Chan;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Periodic patterns and energy states of buckled films on compliant substrates

    Shengqiang Cai;Derek Breid;Alfred J. Crosby;Zhigang Suo

  • Looking Beyond Fibrillar Features to Scale Gecko-Like Adhesion

    Michael D. Bartlett;Andrew B. Croll;Daniel R. King;Beth M. Paret

  • Deformation and Failure Modes of Adhesively Bonded Elastic Layers

    Alfred J. Crosby;Kenneth R. Shull;Hamed Lakrout;Costantino Creton

  • Axisymmetric adhesion tests of soft materials

    Kenneth R Shull;Dongchan Ahn;Wan Lin Chen;Cynthia M. Flanigan

  • The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems

    Mark Ilton;M. Saad Bhamla;Xiaotian Ma;Suzanne M. Cox

  • Controlling polymer adhesion with "pancakes".

    Alfred J. Crosby;Mark Hageman;Andrew Duncan

  • Adhesive failure analysis of pressure-sensitive adhesives

    Alfred J. Crosby;Kenneth R. Shull

  • Solvent-responsive surface via wrinkling instability.

    Hyun Suk Kim;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Mechanics of intact bone marrow

    Lauren E. Jansen;Nathan P. Birch;Jessica D. Schiffman;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Cavitation rheology for soft materials

    Jessica A. Zimberlin;Naomi Sanabria-DeLong;Gregory N. Tew;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Autonomous snapping and jumping polymer gels.

    Yongjin Kim;Jay van den Berg;Alfred J Crosby

  • Spontaneous formation of stable aligned wrinkling patterns

    Edwin P. Chan;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Cavitation and fracture behavior of polyacrylamide hydrogels

    Santanu Kundu;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Effect of stress state on wrinkle morphology

    Derek Breid;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Fingering instabilities of confined elastic layers in tension

    Kenneth R. Shull;Cynthia M. Flanigan;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Synthetically Simple, Highly Resilient Hydrogels

    Jun Cui;Melissa A. Lackey;Ahmad E. Madkour;Erika M. Saffer

  • Self-wrinkling of UV-cured polymer films.

    Dinesh Chandra;Alfred J. Crosby

  • Nanoparticle Alignment and Repulsion during Failure of Glassy Polymer Nanocomposites

    Jong-Young Lee;Qingling Zhang;Todd Emrick;Alfred J. Crosby

Frequent Co-Authors

Todd Emrick
Todd Emrick University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael D. Bartlett
Michael D. Bartlett Virginia Tech
Kenneth R. Shull
Kenneth R. Shull Northwestern University
Gregory N. Tew
Gregory N. Tew University of Massachusetts Amherst
Eric J. Amis
Eric J. Amis University of Akron
Ryan C. Hayward
Ryan C. Hayward University of Colorado Boulder
Alamgir Karim
Alamgir Karim University of Houston
Alejandro L. Briseno
Alejandro L. Briseno University of Massachusetts Amherst
Shengqiang Cai
Shengqiang Cai University of California, San Diego
Duncan J. Irschick
Duncan J. Irschick University of Massachusetts Amherst

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