CBA News & Notes
December 18, 2020
Your friends and colleagues at CBA hope you've been well throughout the challenges of 2020. We've appreciated your interest, support, and collaboration during this demanding year, and look forward to realizing the hopes for 2021 together.
- Our ongoing work on the pandemic response is tracked here:
including the discovery of an antiviral strategy for intracellular degradation of SARS-CoV-2, reported in Nature Communications Biology:
- A CBA team introduced discretely assembled mechanical metamaterials, in Science Advances:
discrete integrated circuit electronics, at the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference:
and contributed to showing functional truncated water-soluble membrane receptors, in Cell iScience:
- Congratulations to Neil Gershenfeld on being elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science:
He wrote about the promise of self-sufficient production with his brothers Joel and Alan:
and did a keynote for Science in the Age of Experience:
reported on here:
- Sherry Lassiter did keynotes on the impact of inclusive innovation for the Formlabs User Summit:
the 2020 Lake Basin Innovation and Investments Week (Lake Victoria, Kenya):
and the STARS Forum (Skills Training for Advancement in Rural Societies):
- Alums Saul Griffith and Sam Calisch reported on the impact of a zero-carbon economy on job creation:
and household savings:
- Jack Forman's work in How To Make (almost) Anything:
resulted in his selection as one of the best student-designed projects of 2020:
and the creation of 3D printed textiles:
Ruben Castro's UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) project on rapid machine building was recognized with a best undergraduate researcher award:
- Here are videos from the FABxLive event that CBA co-hosted:
and here is coverage of the Interspecies I/O event:
- The BioHab project, a collaboration with sponsor Standard Bank Group of South Africa, is covered here:
- The latest start-ups spun off from CBA are Atomic Machines, developing direct-write MEMS fabrication:
and Elmworks, developing additive manufacturing for next-generation electromagnetic motors and devices:
- A CBA team has moved to Phase II of DARPA's COMP Mods program, developing universal particle systems for multiphysics modeling:
- CBA patents have issued for flexural digital material construction and transduction:
and for a modular isotropic lattice extruder system:
- The newest addition to CBA's digital fabrication facility is a multimaterial multicolor 3D printer:
- We wish you a safe and happy holiday, and will be in touch with new people, projects, and tools in the new year.
This is an occasional newsletter on the activities of CBA and its partners; to be added or removed from this list, or to submit items, please contact cba_news@cba.mit.edu - Here are videos from the FABxLive event that CBA co-hosted: