Episode

Metamaterials

Podcast
NSF’s Discovery Files Podcast
Published
Jul 14, 2025
Duration seconds
1223
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Summary

Metamaterials are a special class of engineered materials, designed to have properties not found in nature. Glaucio Paulino, a professor at Princeton University, discusses his work on developing modular chiral origami metamaterials, engineering control approaches and the ways they might benefit society.