Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials
Thayer's 2024 Visionaries in Technology Distinguished Speaker: Julia Greer, Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering at Caltech.
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Creation of reconfigurable and multi-functional materials can be achieved by incorporating architecture into material design. In our research, we design and fabricate three-dimensional (3D) nano-architected materials that can exhibit superior and often tunable thermal, photonic, electrochemical, biochemical, and mechanical properties at extremely low mass densities (lighter than aerogels), which renders them useful and enabling in technological applications. Dominant properties of such meta-materials are driven by their multi-scale hierarchy: from characteristic material microstructure (atoms) to individual constituents (nanometers) to structural components (microns) to overall architectures (millimeters and above).