This #4Dprinted personalized #orthosis provides adaptive fit and comfort by integrating soft/stiff surfaces, moisture-activated #shapechanging zones, and insertable components such as magnets and aligners into a highly #functional device for the #medical and #sports industries.
The #Hybrid#AdditiveFabrication of wood actuators and #3Dprinted#Metamaterials can be utilized for the production of large-scale doubly curved #ShellStructures, as explored and demonstrated in the master's thesis project of Karen Antorveza, Laura Kiesewetter, and Eda Özdemir.
Extrusion-based #3Dprinting enables a high resolution of detail in programming #metamaterial structures. By leveraging industrial robot platforms, 3D-printed meta-structures can be upscaled and tailored through a continuous, interwoven, and layer-by-layer extrusion trajectory.
In transitioning from small-scale hobbyist 3D-printers to large-scale robot extrusion platforms, the correlation between #printingparameter and #mechanicalproperty is preserved. By modulating these #functionalpatterns, mechanical properties can be tuned in specific directions.
The motion of #selfshaping materials can be amplified by #4Dprinting building blocks of #bilayers in greater assemblies, creating #mechanisms that autonomously expand (and contract) considerably in size and volume.
I am excited to finally share the news of my appointment as #AssistantProfessor at the @CornellAAP Department of Design Tech!
Until my relocation to the US from Germany in January 2025, I will be introducing my previous work upon which the #MULTIMESO Lab is based.
Stay tuned…!
AAP is pleased to welcome new long-term faculty, and endowed visiting critics and fellows to Ithaca and New York City! Learn more about the new appointments: https://t.co/4OevZOGCnV