Chen Liu

Stanford University | SU · Department of Mechanical Engineering

Microgravity offers an enticing synthetic knob for materials scientists to explore—however, this environment creates major challenges in hardware development that can turn a simple 3-day experiment into a 3-year long nightmare. This paper provides an overview of engineering an autoclave, compatible with NASA’s Solidification Using a Baffle in Seale...

Graphene aerogel (GA), a 3D carbon-based nanostructure built on 2D graphene sheets, is well known for being the lightest solid material ever synthesized. It also possesses many other exceptional properties, such as high specific surface area and large liquid absorption capacity, thanks to its ultra-high porosity. Computationally, the mechanical pro...

Microgravity offers an enticing synthetic knob for materials scientists to explore—however, this environment creates major challenges in hardware development that can turn a simple 3-day experiment into a 3-year long nightmare. This paper provides an overview of engineering an autoclave, compatible with NASA’s Solidification Using a Baffle in Seale...

Graphene aerogel (GA) is a promising material for thermal management applications across many fields due to its lightweight and thermally insulative properties. However, standard values for important thermal properties, such as thermal conductivity, remain elusive due to the lack of reliable characterization techniques for highly porous materials....

In this work, ordered porous thin films of reduced graphene oxide and tin oxide (rGO/SnO2) were synthesized by a polystyrene sphere monolayer colloidal crystal template method, and their gas-sensing properties...

A critical aspect of human space exploration and eventual settlement is the ability to construct habitats while minimizing payload mass launched from Earth. To respond to this challenge, we have proposed the use of fungal bio-composites for growing extra-terrestrial structures, directly at the destination, significantly lowering the mass of structu...

This work details the synthesis, materials characterization and absorption capacity of graphene aerogel (GA) loaded with UiO-66-NH2 metal organic framework (MOF). A series of density-tunable MOF/GA composites were synthesized by adjusting the MOF/graphene oxide (GO) mass ratio of the precursors before hydrothermal reduction and subsequent critical...

Increased risk of crack formation in the brittle insulating layers of crack-sensitive backend-of-line (BEOL) structures in semiconductor integrated circuits during wafer probing or wire bonding process is detrimental to product reliability. This paper describes the use of a high-resolution, in-situ material testing system that integrates acoustic e...

This investigation utilizes a material testing system that integrates acoustic emission (AE) testing with a nanoindentation system for crack generation and detection in Al-Cu top thin-film stack structures. The suitability of using the AE method was verified with scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of indent cross-sections. In order to cluste...

This paper presents a high-resolution, in-situ material testing system that integrates acoustic emission (AE) testing with a nanoindentation system for crack generation and detection in thin film stack structures. This is used to find the critical contact load during wafer probing of crack-sensitive backend-of-line (BEOL) structures in semiconducto...