Mesomatters - design, manufacture and interact with architected mesoscopic materials

Between traditional industrial design, which operates at the macro scale (cm to m), and material engineering, which operates at the micro/nano scale ([mu]m to nm), is the emerging design space of the mesoscale. While the definition of mesoscale varies across disciplines, mesoscale materials are usually considered to be in between the molecular and macroscopic length scale. It is the scale of human hair or a grain of sand. It is the scale where material properties meet human perception, and the rational meets intuition. In the past 10 years, additive manufacturing, especially 3D printing, has enabled designers to directly manipulate geometries at this scale. Yet existing design and manufacturing approach have not been able to unleash the full potential of mesoscale materials for the design world. This thesis proposes computational tools and an additive manufacturing apparatus to enable the creation and fabrication of materials at the mesoscale.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Ou, Jifei.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hiroshi Ishii.

• Program in Media Arts and Sciences

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123631

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123631