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Jeff Sakamoto

Jeff Sakamoto, professor of materials and mechanical engineering

Jeff Sakamoto

Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Mehrabian Chancellor's Chair

Affiliation: 
Materials, Mechanical Engineering

Contact

3121 Henley Hall

University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Honors

Fellow, Kavli Frontiers of Science; Major Space Act Award, NASA Inventions and Contributions Board; Teacher-Scholar Award, Michigan State University

Research

Structural Materials and Solid Mechanics, Electronic and Photonic Materials

As a materials scientist and engineer with an interest in synthesis, processing, and functionalization of ceramics and hydrogels, his research is highly interdisciplinary guided by the fields of energy storage/conversion and biomedicine.