Prototyping large structures with integrated electronics, like a chair that can monitor someone's sitting posture, is typically a laborious and wasteful process.

A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices using a series of reconfigurable electromechanical ...

Release Date: March 3, 2016 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. – Graphene is a wonder material saddled with great expectations. Discovered in 2004, it is 1 million times thinner than a human hair ...

This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three-dimensional lattice ... curling and collinear structures. Isolated skyrmion ...

Research areas: Mechanical Metamaterials, Lightweight Structures, Aircraft Structure Design ... Routes to Program Thermal Expansion in Three-dimensional Lattice Metamaterials Built from Tetrahedral ...