Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling with the challenge of creating a shape-memory ceramic that can be manufactured at scale without breaking. Now, in tandem with Ph.D. student Donnie Erb ’15, M.S. ’18 and postdoctoral researcher Nikhil Gotawala, he’s had a breakthrough.
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