Research Expertise
| • | Tissue engineering |
| • | Biomechanics |
| • | Biomaterials |
| • | Computational biomaterials |
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Education
| • | Ph.D. | : | Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2003 |
| • | M.Eng. | : | Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China, 1998 |
| • | B.Sc. | : | Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 1995 |
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Courses Taught (since 2006)
| • | AME 461a/561 | : | Finite Element Methods |
| • | AME 483/583 | : | Micro Biomechanics |
| • | ENGR 498a/b | : | Cross-Disciplinary Design [supervised project] |
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Employment
| • | 8/06-date | : | Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Assistant Professor |
| • | 10/02-8/06 | : | Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine/Georgia Institute of Technology: Postdoctoral Fellow |
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Honors and Awards
| • | Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1998-99 |
| • | Excellent Graduate Students, Anhui Province, China, 1995 |
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Professional Societies
| • | ASME | : | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| • | SFB | : | Society for Biomaterials |
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Publications (since 2004)
| • | Wu, X., Levenston, M. E., and Chaikof, E. L., A Constitutive Model for Protein-Based Materials, Biomaterials 27:5315-5325, 2006. |
| • | Nagapudi, K., Brinkman, W. T., Leisen, J., Thomas, B. S., Wright, E. R., Haller, C., Wu, X., Apkarian, R. P., Conticello, V. P., and Chaikof, E. L., Protein-Based Thermoplastic Elastomers, Macromolecules 38: 345-354, 2005. |
| • | Dong, C.-M., Wu, X., Caves, J., Rele, S. S., Thomas, B. S., and Chaikof, E. L., Photomediated Crosslinking of C6-cinnamated Type I Collagen, Biomaterials 26:4041-4049, 2005. |
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Sun, X., Haller, C., Wu, X., Conticello, V. P., and Chaikof, E. L., One-Pot Glyco-Affinity Precipitation Purification for Enhanced Proteomic: The Flexible Alignment of Solution-Phase Capture/Release and Solid-Phase Separation, J. Proteome Res. 4:2355-2359, 2005. |
| • | Wu, X., Sallach, R., Haller, C. A., Caves, J., Nagapudi, K., Conticello, V. P., Levenston, M., and Chaikof, E. L., Alterations in Physical Crosslinking Modulate Mechanical Properties of Two-Phase Protein Polymer Networks, Biomacromolecules 6: 3037-3044, 2005. |
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Research Grants (since 2006)
| • | "The Mechanics of Silk-Elastin-Like Proteins," National Science Foundation, 09/01/07-08/31/08. |
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