Explore recent research from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ: how climate change is redirecting rivers, what bean plants use to protect themselves from pests, where the water in an atmospheric river comes from and how researchers are making tensegrities tiny.


Explore recent research from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ: how climate change is redirecting rivers, what bean plants use to protect themselves from pests, where the water in an atmospheric river comes from and how researchers are making tensegrities tiny.

Lucas Meza, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, started his lab to build a new generation of tough and light nanomaterials inspired by natural materials like wood, shell and bone. Instead, he discovered “big gapsâ€� in our basic understanding of what makes a material tough or brittle. Meza spoke to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News about his strange and surprising journey into the nano realm.