Halie Kim

Former undergraduate researcher (Engineering '22)

Halie was an engineering major at Harvey Mudd, class of 2022, originally from San Francisco. She joined PoSM Lab in the spring of 2021, interested in materials development, sustainability, and bio-inspired engineering. She worked on the joint cone snail project with the Mendelson FILM Lab in the engineering department over the spring of 2021, then transitioned to the Materials subteam for the summer of 2021, where she worked on developing procedures for synthesizing polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymers in the lab. Halie really enjoys collecting stickers and bullet journaling, and is an avid reader of Webtoons.

Papers

The Impact of Polymerization Chemistry on the Mechanical Properties of Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Bottlebrush Elastomers

The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems