NanoBioMech LabOur Vision
We envision a future where nano-bio-structured materials revolutionize personalized healthcare and sustainable engineering. By bridging experimental mechanics, biomanufacturing, and artificial intelligence, we aim to create a new generation of materials that adapt, heal, and perform like living systems—ushering in transformative solutions for human health.
Research Areas
Biomanufacturing & Mechanobiology
Sustainable bioinks, bio-printing, and multiscale characterization of cell-matrix interactions
Learn more →AI/ML-Driven Materials Design
Neural operators, PINNs, and graph neural networks for rapid design and characterization of nano-bio-structured materials
Learn more →About Us
Dr. Hanxun Jin will join the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor in January 2026. Before joining UC, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University, Caltech, and Northwestern. He obtained his Ph.D. in solid mechanics from Brown University in 2022. His research focuses on developing experimental, computational, and AI tools to design resilient and sustainable nano-bio-materials for personalized healthcare and engineering applications. His research has been published in leading journals including Advanced Materials, Science Advances, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and Applied Mechanics Reviews.
Selected Publications
Characterization and Inverse Design of Stochastic Mechanical Metamaterials Using Neural Operators
Advanced Materials
2025
Recent advances and applications of machine learning in experimental solid mechanics: A review
Applied Mechanics Reviews
2023
Dynamic fracture of a bicontinuously nanostructured copolymer: A deep-learning analysis of big-data-generating experiment
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2022
