Interesting discussion with Darren Lipomi, a professor in the Department of NanoEngineering and Programs in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at UC San Diego. In this episode, we discussed how To Design Smart Materials" How smart materials can be designed to achieve high mechanical performance with fast response time? What kind of nonlinearities we have to keep and remove for better performance? Should we get rid of the viscoelastic behavior in smart materials?

Prof.Darren has started his podcast “Molecular Podcasting”, he is also doing informative Youtube videos handling the issues in academia ranging from the funding, handling grant rejections, soft skills, how to choose your Ph.D. supervisor which is very crucial to your academic career.

I highly recommend listening to Prof.Darren's podcast on iTunes:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/molecular-podcasting-with-darren-lipomi/id1519830532