{"id":26905,"date":"2016-09-07T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=26905"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:44:40","slug":"get-schooled-featured-student-grant-recipient-new-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/get-schooled-featured-student-grant-recipient-new-materials","title":{"rendered":"Get Schooled: Featured Student Grant Recipient – New Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you an undergraduate or grad student pushing the boundaries of 3D-printing technology? Apply now for the Shapeways EDU Grant and you could receive up to $1000 in Shapeways credit to realize your idea.\u00a0Learn more about the Shapeways EDU Grant and apply at\u00a0shapeways.com\/education<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Grant winners\u00a0Alexandra Ion<\/a>, Johannes Frohnhofen, Ludwig Wall<\/a>, Robert Kovacs<\/a>, Mirela Alistar,\u00a0Jack Lindsay<\/a>, Pedro Lopes<\/a>, Hsiang-Ting Chen<\/a>, and Patrick Baudisch<\/a>\u00a0from the Hasso Plattner Institute<\/a> in Potsdam, Germany have recently published the completion of their research on Metamaterial Mechanisms and boy, were we blown away!<\/p>\n

To put it succinctly Metamaterial Mechanisms<\/a> is an exploration of material forms as a way of building a mechanical behavior in to the material structure of a solid object. With this custom-developed software the students were able to generate 3D-printable mechanisms out of what is essentially a solid unit of material. The research group calls them metamaterials but they prefer “to think of them as\u00a0machines<\/i>. We demonstrate metamaterial objects that perform a mechanical function.\u00a0Our metamaterial door latch, for example, transforms the rotary movement of its handle into a linear motion of the latch.”<\/p>\n