Congratulations to Rebecca! Our paper “Mechanically active materials in three-dimensional mesostructures,” in collaboration with Xin Ning, John Rogers, et al., is now online in Science Advances, and highlighted as a featured article.
The paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat8313
The key idea is to combine advanced manufacturing and mechanics to integrate multiple, independently addressable piezoelectric thin-film actuators into complex, 3D mesostructures. Among the many possible uses, in this work we demonstrate the ability to measure viscosity and density of surrounding fluids.
