Architected Intelligent Matter Laboratory, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London
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
Freeform weaving
Curved ribbons, woven into smooth surfaces