Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng
UC Berkeley
Additive Manufacturing of Structures and Electronics: Robotic metamaterials that walk, talk and listen
In this talk, I will present a suite of new multi-material additive manufacturing processes and design methodologies to create electronic materials with prescribed structural and functional behaviors. I will present the manufacturing and synthesis of these robotic materials, as well as their mechanics and design methods underpinning their novel behaviors.
About Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng
Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng directs the Advanced Manufacturing and Metamaterials Laboratory at University of California, Berkeley. His group develops the next generation additive manufacturing processes, material designs and synthesis approaches to create multi-functional materials and all-in-one devices with controlled architectures, compositions and multi-scale features. Their work on ultralight, ultrastrong and resilient metamaterials was featured on MIT Technology Review Top 10 Innovations and on the Cover of Science Magazine and Nature Materials. Prior to his faculty career, Zheng received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University with the Best Dissertation Award and subsequently worked as a mechanical engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Prof. Zheng has over 50 publications and multiple patents including multiple Science and Nature Materials articles. He has received multiple awards, including NSF CAREER Award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, DARPA Director’s Fellowship, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, Outstanding Assistant Professor Award, 3M Faculty Award, and Freeform Fabrication and Additive Manufacturing Excellence (FAME) Award.
