A co-recipient of the award, Nam will be formally honored at the TMS-AIME annual awards ceremony in March 2018. As part of the award, he will present a lecture titled, “Designing and Shaping Nano-materials via Controlled Mechanical Deformations,” at the Young Professional Luncheon. He will also help organize a symposium for the TMS 2019 annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Nam earned his PhD in applied physics in 2011 from Harvard University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining MechSE in fall 2012.
His current research program pursues innovations in controlled deformation (i.e., ‘architecturing’) of atomically-thin, two-dimensional (2D) materials to explore how unique shapes of atomically-thin materials enable new functionalities. In particular, his research group studies mechanical self-assembly of folded and crumpled graphene and two-dimensional materials for strain-tolerant and flexible/stretchable forms of sensors for biotic and abiotic investigations.