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Jeff Sakamoto
Professor
Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Mehrabian Chancellor's Chair
Affiliation:
Materials, Mechanical Engineering
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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.