Yakacki wins National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Christopher Yakacki, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Denver, has won a 2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award winner. Yakacki’s project, “A Two-Stage Processing Approach to Shape-Switching Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers for Biomedical Applications,” is a five-year investigation into the development of a reaction mechanism to tailor [...]