Researchers at the Department of Biomechanical Engineering of Delft University of Technology have created a new class of metamaterials that can dynamically switch their mechanical behavior. It may ...

Did you know that if you manipulate a laser pointer fast enough, you'll be able to see the image that the laser trail leaves behind? That means that with a little bit of mechanical ingenuity, you can ...

SEM image of a FIB-milled quasi-BCC beam nanolattice. (Image: Materials Research Center of the Institute of Modern Physics) Mechanical metamaterials are a class of composite materials that possess ...

Origami can be used to create mechanical, binary switches, and researchers report the fabrication of such a paper device, using the Kresling pattern, that can act as a mechanical switch. By putting ...