Discovering a new class of matter in the lab of Chiara Daraio at Caltech, researchers have identified a type of material that uniquely responds to stress, behaving like a fluid under some conditions ...

Scientists from Caltech have developed ‘a new type of matter,’ which they are calling polycatenated architected materials, or PAMs. This new matter doesn’t occur naturally, and uses chainmail-like ...

Inspired by the way termites build their nests, researchers have developed a framework to design new materials that mimic the fundamental rules hidden in nature's growth patterns. Using these rules, ...

Experiments from the Caltech lab of Chiara Daraio have yielded a fascinating new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses as a fluid would and to others like a ...

It was the kind of ah-ha moment scientists only dream about when Chiara Daraio, professor of mechanical engineering and applied physics at Caltech, realized that her lab’s work on so-called “granular ...

Engineers at Caltech and ETH Zürich in Switzerland have created a method to systematically design metamaterials using principles of quantum mechanics. Their work could pave the way for wider use of ...

A material inspired by chain mail changes its properties from flexible to hard when it is pressurized. The fabric, developed by Chiara Daraio and her colleagues at the California Institute of ...

(Nanowerk News) Experiments from the Caltech lab of Chiara Daraio, G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, have ...

Two Caltech researchers and a Jet Propulsion Laboratory aerospace engineer are among the 2012 winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award, first handed out ...