Technology Unlocking innovation: Multistable mechanical metamaterials’ evolution in design, manufacturing… Andrew McCollum Oct 15, 2023 The three innermost leaves contain three basic bistable units. The intermediate ring describes the basic preparation…
Technology Floppy or not: AI predicts properties of complex metamaterials Andrew McCollum Nov 4, 2022 Two combinatorial mechanical metamaterials designed in such a way that the letters M and L bulge out in the front when…
Technology Researchers develop automatic drawing machine for making paper-based metamaterials Andrew McCollum Oct 14, 2022 The schematic of the drawing method and three types of metamaterials. Credit: Optical Materials Express (2022). DOI:…
Technology New approach to flexible robotics and metamaterials design mimics nature, encourages sustainability Andrew McCollum Mar 1, 2022 Illinois researchers Weichen Li, left, and professor Shelly Zhang demonstrate how optimization theory and computer…
Technology Engineers develop inexpensive, scalable method to make metamaterials that manipulate microwave… Andrew McCollum Jun 21, 2021 A thin film polymer tunes the properties of an inkjet printed array of small microwave resonators. The composite…
Technology Bill Gates Backs New Venture Fund Focused on Metamaterials Andrew McCollum Jun 2, 2021 A new venture fund has launched to invest in startups commercializing metamaterials, a budding area of materials science that could improve the performance and reduce the size and…