Mohand Saed

University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory

Research Expertise

Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Vitrimers
Polymers
Thermoplastics
3D printing
Biomaterials
Polymers and Plastics
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

About

Dr. Mohand Saed is an experienced mechanical engineer who is an expert in microfluidics and energy systems. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado Denver in 2015 and his MS in Mechanical engineering from the same university in 2013. Throughout his career, he has had numerous research positions, including as a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Texas at Dallas, and Research Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on his research topics and holds several patents. He is also an active member of the technical community and is well known for his expertise in microfluidics and energy systems.

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Publications

Tailorable and programmable liquid-crystalline elastomers using a two-stage thiol–acrylate reaction
RSC Advances
2015
Molecularly‐Engineered, 4D‐Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
Advanced Functional Materials
2018
Thiol-acrylate main-chain liquid-crystalline elastomers with tunable thermomechanical properties and actuation strain
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics
2016
High strain actuation liquid crystal elastomers via modulation of mesophase structure
Soft Matter
2017
Liquid Crystalline Vitrimers with Full or Partial Boronic‐Ester Bond Exchange
Advanced Functional Materials
2019
Synthesis of Programmable Main-chain Liquid-crystalline Elastomers Using a Two-stage Thiol-acrylate Reaction
Journal of Visualized Experiments
2016
Liquid-crystal order during synthesis affects main-chain liquid-crystal elastomer behavior
Soft Matter
2017
Exchangeable Liquid Crystalline Elastomers and Their Applications
Chemical Reviews
2021
Elasticity and Relaxation in Full and Partial Vitrimer Networks
Macromolecules
2019
Siloxane crosslinks with dynamic bond exchange enable shape programming in liquid-crystalline elastomers
Scientific Reports
2020
Viscoelasticity of the polydomain-monodomain transition in main-chain liquid crystal elastomers
Polymer
2016
Enhanced Dynamic Adhesion in Nematic Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Advanced Materials
2019
Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Based Microelectrode Array for In Vitro Neuronal Recordings
Micromachines
2018
Photo-CuAAC Induced Wrinkle Formation in a Thiol–Acrylate Elastomer via Sequential Click Reactions
Chemistry of Materials
2014
Scalable upcycling of thermoplastic polyolefins into vitrimers through transesterification
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
2020
Responsive, 3D Electronics Enabled by Liquid Crystal Elastomer Substrates
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2019
Rheology of vitrimers
Nature Communications
2022
Four-dimensional Printing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2017
Programmable Shape Change in Semicrystalline Liquid Crystal Elastomers
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2022
Thiol–acrylate side-chain liquid crystal elastomers
Soft Matter
2022
Main‐Chain Nematic Side‐Chain Smectic Composite Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Advanced Functional Materials
2023
Synthesis of Programmable Main-chain Liquid-crystalline Elastomers Using a Two-stage Thiol-acrylate Reaction
Journal of Visualized Experiments
2016
Liquid crystal elastomer shell actuators with negative order parameter
Science Advances
2019
Dynamic Pressure Sensitive Adhesion in Nematic Phase of Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Advanced Functional Materials
2021
Impact damping and vibration attenuation in nematic liquid crystal elastomers
Nature Communications
2021
Dynamic Semicrystalline Networks of Polypropylene with Thiol-Anhydride Exchangeable Crosslinks
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2021
Heliotracking Device using Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuators
Advanced Materials Technologies
2021
Internal constraints and arrested relaxation in main-chain nematic elastomers
Nature Communications
2021
A Copolymer-in-Oil Tissue-Mimicking Material With Tuneable Acoustic and Optical Characteristics for Photoacoustic Imaging Phantoms
IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
2021
Continuous spinning aligned liquid crystal elastomer fibers with a 3D printer setup
Soft Matter
2021
Transesterification in Epoxy–Thiol Exchangeable Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
Macromolecules
2020
Light-Driven Dynamic Adhesion on Photosensitized Nematic Liquid Crystalline Elastomers
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
2020
Catalytic Control of Plastic Flow in Siloxane-Based Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Networks
ACS Macro Letters
2020
Dynamic Manipulation of Friction in Smart Textile Composites of Liquid‐Crystal Elastomers
Advanced Materials Interfaces
2020
Rates of transesterification in epoxy–thiol vitrimers
Soft Matter
2020
The effect of alignment on the rate-dependent behavior of a main-chain liquid crystal elastomer
Soft Matter
2020
Fully recoverable rigid shape memory foam based on copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) using a salt leaching technique
Polymer Chemistry
2018
High-strength poly(para-phenylene) as an orthopedic biomaterial
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A
2013

Education

University of Colorado Denver

PhD, Mechanical engineering

Denver, Colorado, United States of America

University of Colorado Denver

MS, Mechanical engineering / December, 2013

Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Experience

University of Cambridge

Senior research associate / October, 2018September, 2022

University of Texas at Dallas

Postdoctoral associate / June, 2017September, 2018

University of Cambridge

Research assistant professor / September, 2022Present

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