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| Group Information | Research Program | Affiliations/Collaborations |
| Prof. Subra Suresh Announcement A message to past members of Prof. Suresh's group at Brown University and MIT: If you have not been in contact lately please send an e-mail to glabonte[at]mit[dot]edu with your up-to-date information. Also, if you know someone who has been out of contact please pass this message to them. _________________________
Images of single red blood cells (RBCs) stretched by optical tweezers. The top cell is a healthy RBC which shows considerable deformability. The bottom image shows a stiffened RBC infected by a P. falciparum parasite in the late stage of development at the same force.
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The Suresh Research Group investigates mechanical properties of engineered and biological materials at the nano to macro-scale using experimental, analytical, and computational techniques. ______________________________ Cover of the February 27, 2007 issue of PNAS highlighting the atomistic model used to study nanostructured metal deformation mechanisms from the recently published report T. Zhu, J. Li, A. Samanta, H. G. Kim and S. Suresh, PNAS 104(9) 3031–3036, 2007.
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