NANOARCHITECTED METAMATERIALS
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Institute of Nanotechnology | Cluster of Excellence - 3D Matter Made to Order | Institute for Applied Materials
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

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GLASS NANOPRINTING
Pre-glass polymer prints optical-grade glass in a sinterless low-temperature process.
TENSEGRITY METAMATERIALS
The concept of delocalized deformation introduces a pathway to overcome failure.
PYROLYTIC CARBON NANOLATTICES
Heat treatment of 3D-printed polymer templates fabricates the smallest ever truss lattice made from ultra-strong carbon.
PLATE-NANOLATTICES
Plate-designs grant nanoceramics strength and stiffness at the theoretical limit, outperforming diamond.
MINIMAL SURFACE NANOSHELL
Curved shell architecture counteracts brittleness and enables extreme energy absorption capability.
POLYMER-DERIVED NANOCERAMICS
Pyrolysis of nano 3D-printed pre-ceramic polymers shows fracture resistant silicon ceramics fabricable.
Nickel/Carbon Nanocomposite
Metal infiltration of carbon nanoshells creates the first nanoarchitected metal/ceramic composites.
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Constructing solids from nanoscale building blocks
for a future generation of materials.

The Nanoarchitected Metamaterials Laboratory is part of the Institute of Nanotechnology and a member of the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Our research focuses on nanoarchitected metamaterials and additive manufacturing approaches of such, to develop novel multifunctional high-performance materials. In this, we study methods to simultaneously harness beneficial materials size effects, as well as topological characteristics of cellular and composite architectures. Examples include tensegrity metamaterials, which circumvent failure via delocalized deformation mechanism, 3D-printable polymer-derived ductile nanoceramics, which can be strained up to 25%, and nanolattices constructed from closed-cell plate-architectures whose specific strengths surpasses that of bulk diamond while consisting of >50% air.

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