Press

Media coverage and features of our research, from press articles and journal highlights to videos and interviews, spanning the group's work over the years.

2025.09 UH Magazine A More Flexible Future
2025.04 UH News MAE’s Chen Softens The Hard Sciences With New Research On Knitting
2024.01 UH News Research By ME's Tian Chen Picked For Journal Cover
2023.10 Steve Mould Self-assembling material pops into 3D (8.9M views)
2023.10 UH News Video Featuring Research Of ME's Chen Surpasses 1M Views
2021.08 Physics Magazine The Geometry of Basket Weaving
2021.08 Nature Reviews Physics Weaving smooth 3D shapes with curved ribbons
2021.06 EPFL Modeling the friction between pages in a book
2021.01 The Register Boffins' 3cm 'm-bit' cubes demonstrate programmable wunderstuff
2021.01 Nature News & Views Mechanical memory written and read remotely
2021.01 EPFL New metamaterial offers reprogrammable properties
2021.01 NZZ Auf Knopfdruck wird Weiches fest und Festes weich
2019.07 TechCrunch This solar array expands itself at the right temperature
2019.06 Physics Magazine Focus: Folded Solar Panel Opens Without Power Source
2018.10 CBS News Researchers developing self-powered robots
2018.06 ETH Zurich Swimming without an engine
2018.05 Caltech No Motor, No Battery, No Problem
2017.12 ETH Globe 3D printing unlimited: From tooth enamel to 4D printing
2017.11 Mary Ann Liebert 4D Printing of Programmable Shape-Changing Structures
2017.11 World Economic Forum ETH Zurich, Rethinking Intelligence
2017.05 ETH Zurich Fabrication technology in the fourth dimension