To start off, two of Dr. Zhu’s graduate students showed us what they were working on – one thing they had made was this worm-like structure that responds to light and scoots along like an inchworm. It is capable of travelling through narrow slots. After learning about the graduate students’ projects, we went on to make a new design of metamaterials: this one is a very intricate pattern that took about an hour to fully cut out. When stretched on its sides, the structure also expands up and down.
