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: