Welcome to the
Intelligent Matter Lab
Welcome to the
Intelligent Matter Lab
We design matter made of many parts (e.g., molecules, colloids, and architected units) that touch, link, jam, and interlock.
By programming shape and connectivity, we turn contact into computation and structure into function. Our goal is simple and audacious: materials that behave a little more like life—responsive, multifunctional, and efficient.
We design matter made of many parts—molecules, colloids, and architected units—that touch, link, jam, and interlock.
By programming shape and connectivity, we turn contact into computation and structure into function. Our goal is simple and audacious: materials that behave a little more like life—responsive, multifunctional, and efficient.
Intelligence: More Is Different
Intelligence:
More Is Different
Brain
Intelligence emerges from densely connected, plastic neural networks, connectivity creates capability.
Intelligent Matter
Materials embedded with collective intelligence?
Swarm
Collective intelligence arises from simple local rules and fast information flow among many individuals.
What We ...
Believe
Collective intelligence can be built into materials through contact, entanglement, and interlocking.
Study
Discontinuous systems across scales, including molecules, colloids, and architected units, where topology and contact dominate.
Derive
We derive mechanics, transport, memory, and adaptation from geometry and network topology.
Make
Autonomous materials and devices that lock and unlock, morph, protect themselves, repair themselves, and remember.
Envision
Intelligent materials that changes how we build, move, protect, and heal
Our Working Recipe
Geometry
Synthesis
Application
Structure
Property
Join Us!
We’re a cross-scale, cross-disciplinary group shaping materials as machines. If you like big ideas grounded in rigorous making, you’ll feel at home here.
