Self-assembling material pops into 3D

Get 50% off your first month of KiwiCo. Use code STEVEMOULD at This bistable auxetic material gets bigger in all directions when you stretch it. It’s also becomes 3 dimensional! The paper by Tian Chen and colleagues is: Bistable auxetic surface structures, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 40(4), 1-9. (Chen, T., Panetta, J., Schnaubelt, M., & Pauly, M. (2021) You can find the cut patterns and other recourses here: Tian is currently working at the Architected Intelligent Matter Laboratory: Here’s my video about flexible polyhedra: Veritasium video about compliant mechanisms: Here’s my Discord server: You can buy my books here: You can support me on Patreon and get access to the exclusive Discord: just like these amazing people: Alex Hackman Glenn Sugden Tj Steyn Pavel Dubov Lizzy and Jack Jeremy Cole Brendan Williams Frank Hereford Lukas Biewald Damien Szerszinski Marshall Fitzpatrick Heather Liu Grant Hay John Zelinka Paul Warelis Matthew Cocke Nathan Blubaugh Twitter: Instagram: Facebook: Buy nerdy maths things: