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"Beading is the new jamming". Mixing threads 🧵 and beads 🧿 yields materials with intriguing mechanical properties. They can be soft as textiles 👕 and hard as rock ⛰️. More on that: arxiv.org/abs/2404.04227 by Lauren Dreier, Trevor et al.

Today! Dance performance at 5:30 🤩

Caterbot? Robotapillar? 🤖🐛 We, Glaucio H. Paulino Princeton Engineering Princeton Materials Institute and Prof. Yong Zhu, Dr. Wu NC State MAE, create a bio-inspired plug-and-play soft modular #origami #robot enabled by electrothermal actuation with highly bendable and adaptable heaters! PNASNews

A surprise gift of « new curve crease origami » we call Lacrygami brought to us by a single cell (this is the first example of origami in a single cell)!! Will write a longer thread shortly describing our journey to discovery - in mean time, enjoy this beautiful cell.

Inspired by nature, architecture and swarm intelligence, two Princeton Engineering professors created a wall of robotic “flowers” that visitors can interact with. 🌸 bit.ly/45hFHo5

🎉New paper alert 🎉 Grasping and tactile sensing without additional sensors? Thin-shell #buckling can do it 🤩 Here is our paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems! DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202300855 Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ai… UMD Research

As it gets hotter, these outdoor cooling centers are looking pretty good. They are the work of @eliebz, Forrest Meggers, Lucia Stein-Montalvo, Xinjie Huang, and Jyotirmoy Mandal. Thanks to Bloomberg for the feature👇 bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Professor @eliebz developed a retro-reflective coating that bounces sunlight back toward the sky. Professor Forrest Meggers engineered "cold tubes" encased in a membrane that repels humidity. Inspired by the art of cutting and folding paper, kirigami, postodc Lucia Stein-Montalvo designed a

The response of a closed-loop kirigami pattern in flow. The kirigami sheet undergoes a large elongation in the direction of flow, but despite this large elongation, the sheet does not experience any flow-induced instability. From our recent paper in EML: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jTL78MuOhJf…

Meet three new Northwestern faculty whose interdisciplinary solutions to #climatechange run the gamut, from designing structures that can adapt their shapes to make cities more resilient to measuring how changing weather affects insects and plants: trienens-institute.northwestern.edu/news-events/ne…

Ousmane Kodio and I are looking forward to a great "Morphing Matter" @ApsDSoft focus session at this year’s American Physical Society meeting. Please consider submitting an abstract by the Oct 25 deadline. We have exciting invited speakers—José Bico and Lucia Stein-Montalvo !!

With Trevor, we are organizing a focus session on "Crafted matter" (APS DSOFT) for American Physical Society March Meeting/Global Physics Summit 2025 -- consider submitting an abstract by October 25!

One bright spot 💙

Finally trying Bluesky: Lucia Stein-Montalvo.bsky.social Hope to see y'all there!