Purdue postdoctoral research associate Yuezhong Feng creates an interlocking structure using a 3-D printer. Purdue researchers are working with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop a ...

Topological interlocking materials and structures represent an innovative design approach in which individual, often geometrically complex, elements are arranged to mutually constrain one another.

Researchers invent a new approach to assembling big structures -- even airplanes and bridges -- out of small interlocking composite components. MIT researchers have developed a lightweight structure ...

Scientists from Caltech have developed ‘a new type of matter,’ which they are calling polycatenated architected materials, or PAMs. This new matter doesn’t occur naturally, and uses chainmail-like ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built the world's smallest mechanically interlocked biological structure, a deceptively simple two-ring chain made from tiny strands of amino acids called ...

In a feat of chemistry imitating art, researchers have created a molecular version of a Borromean knot, an attractive pattern of three interlocking rings that commonly adorned Viking art and ...

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could be replicated to develop materials for the next generation of aircraft, new research from Manchester University has found. Microscopic ...

Architecture studio OMA has designed a tiered residential structure with interlocking towers for a beachfront site in the Florida city of Miami Beach. Called The Perigon, the building will comprise ...