Research

Highlighted projects that represent the kind of research we do. They span deployable structures, soft active matter, architected materials, vibrational fabrication, and more. All of them draw on the same three pillars: geometry, mechanics, and fabrication.

3D-printed knits

Programmable materials built from a single entangled thread

Acoustic shaping of imperfect shells

Using sound to sculpt defects into thin shells

Deployable surfaces, from the benchtop to the wafer

Flat sheets that snap into stable 3D shapes, scaled down to the chip

Engineering knitted wearables

Programmable-stiffness textiles for haptics, modeled and designed by computer

Temperature-switchable metamaterials

Materials that change how they behave when warmed or cooled

Weaving curved surfaces from flat ribbons

From basketry to computer-designed woven shells

A reprogrammable metamaterial with memory

A material you can rewrite like a hard drive

Printed bistable structures that deploy and reconfigure

Flat-printed assemblies that snap into stable, load-bearing 3D shapes

Programmable active lattices

4D-printed cellular solids that reconfigure their own mechanics

Untethered soft robots that swim by snapping

Battery-free locomotion powered by bistable snaps