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Prof. Subra Suresh

Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biological Engineering
HST Affiliated Faculty

Primary DLC

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

MIT Room: 6-113
(202) 316-4477
https://dmse.mit.edu/faculty/subra-suresh/

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Nanomechanics of Engineering and Biological Materials
Mechanical and Coupled Properties of Materials
Modeling of Stress and Material Deformation in Thin Films and at Surfaces
Nanostructured Materials
NanoIndentation and MicroIndentation
Surface Engineering
Nanoscale Mechanical Properties of Biological Materials
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology

Research Summary

Professor Subra Suresh’s research is in the following areas: nanomechanics of biological cells and molecules, and human disease states; structure-mechanical property-disease connections in the context of P. falciparum malaria, hereditary blood cell disorders and cancer; computational simulations of cellular and molecular deformation and shape thermodynamics; high force optical tweezers studies of biological cells and human disease states; nanostructured materials; and nanoindentation and microindentation.

Recent Work

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