Past Members:<\/strong> Caelan Wisont, Robert Verdoes, Zainab Patel, Matt Leahy, Reese Taylor, Paul Fallon, Alex Cong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Primary Goal<\/strong>: Create prestressed tensegrity architectures at the nanoscale. This method would allow for the creation of controllable stress networks within parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Broader Impacts<\/strong>: Prestress can be used to control mechanical properties (stiffness of tensegrities) and mechanical resilience (high strength tempered glass or gorilla glass). We are developing a method that can be broadly applied to new materials systems that display size-affected shrinkage.
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Past Team Members<\/strong>: Robert Verdoes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Primary Goals<\/strong>: Investigate how to better control the pyrolyzing process to affect shrinkage and enhance mechanical properties such as strength-density ratios and ultralight weights through pyrolysis-induced pretensioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Broader Impacts<\/strong>: Two-photon lithography can be used to create 3D polymeric structures with control of features at the nanoscale. Pyrolyzing these polymer structures converts them into pure carbon and causes them to undergo as much as 80% shrinkage. This process not only decreases weight and improves feature sizes, but it allows for nanoarchitectures to be made from ultrahigh strength nano-carbon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nanoscale Tensegrity-Based Metamaterials Team Members: Amitha Mulastham Past Members: Caelan Wisont, Robert Verdoes, Zainab Patel, Matt Leahy, Reese Taylor, Paul<\/p>\n
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