Projects

Highlighted projects that represent the kind of research we do. They span deployable structures, soft active matter, architected materials, vibrational fabrication, and more. You will see a common thread between them; they all apply geometry reasoning, mechanics-based analysis, and advanced manufacturing.

Deployable wafer devices

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

3D-printed volumetric knits

Programmable materials built from a single entangled thread

Acoustic shaping of imperfect shells

Using sound to sculpt defects into thin shells

Knit mechanics, from yarn to garment

A multi-level modeling and design framework for weft-knitted fabrics

Engineering knitted wearables

Programmable-stiffness textiles for wearable haptics

Temperature-switchable metamaterials

Materials that change how they behave under load 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

Bistable auxetic surface structures

Flat sheets of snapping cells that deploy into a curved shape and hold it

Printed bistable structures that deploy and reconfigure

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

A solar array that deploys itself

Elastic flasher origami and scissor rings, triggered by warmth alone

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