Crafting Material Interfaces

Self-generated Lantern

The flexinol became loose after testing for a couple of times, which worked not as well as before. Here is the video. Testing self-folded paper    

Slides from Guest Lecture on Jamming

Nadia Cheng and Steven Keating’s presentation on jammed granular systems

Ice Melting

Here is our presentation slides, which include the images: Heat actuator Water Crystallization SMALL Water droplets were frozen at -78C for 10-30 minutes, before being imaged under 625x microscope.  Some water droplets were subjected to negative pressure for the freezing process (.5 and .33 atm respectively), and their crystal size compared with 1atm frozen water.  [...]