LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe ability to pattern functional materials in planar and three-dimensional forms is of critical …
Functionally graded materials—materials with spatially varying composition or microstructure—are omnipresent in nature. From palm trees wit…
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Former Education and Outreach Manager, Open Ocean
Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University; Advisory Council Member
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Former Research Assistant
We are developing a printer that builds functional, 3-D structures by reversible assembly of a discrete set of "digital materials." This ap…
How can biological organisms be incorporated into product, fashion, and architectural design to enable the generation of multi-functional, …
Former Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Printflatables is a design and fabrication system for human-scale, functional and dynamic inflatable objects. The user begins with specifyi…
Kim, T.I., Kim, M.J., Jung, Y.H., Jang, H., Dagdeviren, C., Pao, H.A., Cho, S.J., Carlson, A., Yu, K.J., Ameen, A., Chung, H.-j., Jin, S.H., Ma, Z., Rogers, J.A., Chemistry of Materials, 26(11), 3502–3507, 2014. [Cover Image]
Sareen, Harpreet, et al. "Printflatables: Printing Human-Scale, Functional and Dynamic Inflatable Objects." Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2017.
Proceeding CHI '17 Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Pages 3669-3680 Denver, Colorado, USA — May 06 - 11, 2017 ACM New York, NY, USA ©2017
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When materials sciences meet HCI and e-textiles, for custom sensors and actuatorsIn this project we explore the process of polymerization t…
Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the resulting composites take on the funct…
A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.
Ahmad, N., Dagdeviren, C., Rogers, J.A., Ferreira, P., IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 24(4), 1016 - 1028, 2015.
Computation and fabrication in biology occur in aqueous environments. Through on-chip mixing, analysis, and fabrication, microfluidic chips…
Reengineering Education: Systems Engineering and the LearningGraph as a Means to Developing a Coherent Learning Data ArchitectureCOMMI…
A framework for developing creative tools through extended work with creative professionals.
Christoph Bader, Dominik Kolb, James Weaver, Neri Oxman
Mogas-Soldevila, L. "Water-based Digital Design and Fabrication: Material, Product, and Architectural Explorations in Printing Chitosan and its Composites"
Renee Magritte's “Treachery of Images” highlighted the fallacy in which images and words are prescribed meaning. It is obvious that a paint…
Professor Tod Machover will welcome George Lewis, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.
Steven J. Keating
Former Research Assistant
Neri Oxman, Steven J. Keating, Elizabeth Tsai
Jack Forman, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Hamilton Forsythe, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2020. DefeXtiles: 3D Printing Quasi-Woven Fabric via Under-Extrusion. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1222–1233. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3379337.3415876
Steven J. Keating, Elizabeth Tsai, Neri Oxman. CRC Press, Jun 6, 2013
Neri Oxman, Jared Laucks, Markus Kayser, Elizabeth Tsai, Michal Firstenberg
Thursday April 29, 2021 …
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LocationScience Museum, London DescriptionExplore this exhibition to discover how innovators are using 3D printers to turn computer data in…
Langford, W. "Electronic Digital Materials"
Researchers from the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms are using techniques from kirigami to create strong, lightweight metal structures.
Former Visiting Associate Professor
Tsai, E. Y. "4D Printing: Towards Biomimetic Additive Manufacturing"
Guanyun Wang, Lining Yao, Wen Wang, Jifei Ou, Chin-Yi Cheng, Hiroshi Ishii
Generating 3D Lichtenberg structures in sintered media (i.e. glass) using electricity offers a new approach to digital fabrication. By robo…
Neri Oxman
How can additive fabrication technologies be scaled to building-sized construction? We introduce a novel method of mobile swarm printing th…
Obidin, N., Tasnim, F., Dagdeviren, C.†, Advanced Materials, 1901482, 2019. [Invited Review Paper]
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific imagi…
The MIT Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were a…
Ward, J. "Digital Assembly of Digital Materials"
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By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way to …
Elizabeth Tsai
Until now, we couldn’t print certain types of data models in 3D.
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Former Research Affiliate
D. Sarkar, X. Xie, J. Kang, H. Zhang, W. Liu, J. Navarrete, M. Moskovits and K. Banerjee, “ Functionalization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Metallic Nanoparticles: Implications for Doping and Gas-Sensing,” Nano Lett., Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 2852, 2015.
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The design process is no longer limited to one group of individuals, as number, level, and cost make tools ever more accessible. As we move…
Elizabeth Tsai
J. Kang, D. Sarkar, W. Liu, D. Jena and K. Banerjee, "A computational study of metal-contacts to beyond-graphene 2D semiconductor materials," 2012 International Electron Devices Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2012, pp. 17.4.1-17.4.4.
Dominik Kolb
Combining the art of two worlds–fashion and biology–into one. Conforming Materials is working towards designing fully recyclable cloth…
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