{"id":2,"date":"2018-02-13T12:42:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T12:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:29:33","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our work investigates the mechanics of highly deformable interfaces in three main contexts: <strong>soft adhesion<\/strong>, <strong>fluid surface instabilities<\/strong>, and <strong>plant biophysics<\/strong>. We complement this work with other soft matter mechanics research, especially regarding defects in amorphous materials, and through collaborations contribute to a broad range of research from soft matter to neuroscience to biologically-relevant crystallography.<\/p>\n<p>For our published work, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/publications\/\">Publications<\/a> page, or <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=j1kMF48AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Prof. Jensen&#8217;s Google Scholar page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Active research areas in the laboratory include:<\/p>\n<h1>Soft Adhesion and Contact Mechanics<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Elastocapillary adhesion of soft gel microspheres<\/li>\n<li>Dynamics of making and breaking adhesive contacts<\/li>\n<li>Deformation-dependent adhesion with soft polymers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Funding<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2129463\">NSF Grant CMMI-2129463<\/a>; Research Corporation Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Grant<\/p>\n<h1>Fluid Surface Instabilities<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>The physics of leaking fluids: How (and when) a leak can stop itself<\/li>\n<li>Naturally-occurring surface-shock starburst instabilities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Funding<\/em>: ACS Petroleum Research Fund UNI Grant; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2340259&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\">NSF CAREER Award DMR-2340259<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Plant Biophysics<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Water-air interface mechanics during asexual reproduction of <em>M. polymorpha<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Funding<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2015208\">NSF Grant PHY-2015208<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Other Soft Matter Mechanics &amp; Materials Science Research<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Microscopic mechanisms of plastic deformation in colloidal glasses<\/li>\n<li>Active flow transport in decentralized biological networks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additional funding supporting our research has come from Williams College for individual students via Allison Davis Research Fellowships (2019-2023), the Edward N. Perry 1968 and Cynthia W. Wood Summer Science Research Fellowship for experimental soft condensed matter research (2021-present), the Summer Science Program, and the Science Center; and for PI Jensen via startup funding and a Class of 1945 World Fellowship (2021-2022).<\/p>\n<p>(last updated October 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our work investigates the mechanics of highly deformable interfaces in three main contexts: soft adhesion, fluid surface instabilities, and plant biophysics. We complement this work with other soft matter mechanics research, especially regarding defects in amorphous materials, and through collaborations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1912,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/materials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}