Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Advanced Structures Lab
Led by Curtis R. Taylor · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
What we study
Curtis Taylor's lab works on new smart materials and ways to make them, including adaptive composites for building structures in space. He also runs immersive-reality learning tools for engineering education.
What working here is like
- Building & testing
- Computational
- No coding
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Adaptive composite materials for in-space manufacturing
Develops adaptive composite materials, engineered materials that can change in response to conditions, and studies how they could be manufactured in space to build structures.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Atomic Force Microscopy of Transfer Film Development
2024 · Tribology Letters
Uses atomic force microscopy to study how a polymer film forms and wears over time.
- Chromogenic Photonic Crystal Detectors for Monitoring Small Molecule Diffusion at Solid–Solid Interfaces Using Stimuli-Responsive Shape Memory Polymers
2024 · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Builds color-changing sensors to track small molecule movement between solids.
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- Collagen Networks under Indentation and Compression Behave Like Cellular Solids
2024 · Langmuir
Compares how collagen and polyacrylamide networks respond to pressure.
- Tuning Spatially Resolved Shape Memory Effects of Stimuli‐Responsive Macroporous Photonic Crystals
2024 · Advanced Engineering Materials
Makes light-reflecting materials that can be reshaped and hidden with UV light.
- Reconfigurable Antireflection Coatings Enabled by PDMS Oligomer Infusion in Templated Nanoporous Polymer Films
2024 · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Creates flexible, light-reflecting coatings that can be reshaped for different uses.
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How to reach out
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