Maria Sakovsky

Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Contribution Award at the ASME SMASIS conference! This highlights our paper on multi-stable reconfigurable antennas with Rosette Bichara, @costantinejoe, and @YoussefTawk6. See the full paper at: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Excited for ASME SMASIS Sept. 9-11 and to connect with colleagues in the area of smart structures! Check out our group’s latest work on controlling mechanical properties in adaptive metamaterials.

Dr Maria Sakovsky @MSakovsky from @Stanford has recently joined the Editorial Board of @CommsEng. Her experience in reconfigurable structures and composites for space will help us with journal's growth in this domain

Check out our new work with Tom Vogel, @AghnaMukherjee, Edouard Tarter, and Paolo Ermanni: doi.org/10.1016/j.matd… We show how to design bistable structures with improved stiffness using kinematics-based design. The approach is applied to the design of a reconfigurable boom!

How do you achieve adaptive stiffness in structures in an energy-efficient way? In our latest work with Kai Jun Chen in Smart Materials and Structures, we propose reversible lamination of load-carrying layers using gecko-inspired dry adhesives. doi.org/10.1088/1361-6…

@chenna1985 Multi-stability opens the potential for human-in-the-loop operation as the structure returns to the shapes required for antenna operation. We discuss the limitations of this strategy in the paper and propose a powered alternative using smart material actuators.

How does the structure go from one state to the other once it is deployed? Where does the stimulus come from?🤔🤔

Researchers from Stanford and the American University of Beirut have developed a lightweight, portable antenna that can communicate with satellites and devices on the ground, making it easier to coordinate rescue and relief efforts in disaster-prone areas. engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/new-p…

The work was featured at: news.stanford.edu/2024/01/18/new…

We use multi-stability in composites for a radiation pattern reconfigurable antenna. Proud to share our latest work enabling portable communications in low infrastructure areas with @costantinejoe and @YoussefTawk6 in @NatureComms. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Excited to share our latest work on gecko-inspired programmable stiffness structures at #aiaa #scitech. For those attending, join us at 1 pm on Tues. Jan. 9th in Florida Ballroom B or check out the full paper at: arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.….

Interested in applying for the open faculty position at Stanford Aero/Astro? ✈️🛰️Application review will begin Dec. 4th.

We have an open faculty position at Stanford Aeronautics and Astronautics! Please share and encourage qualified candidates to apply. Full details at: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/4946…

The AIAA Scitech Call for Papers is open! We are looking for exciting submissions in all areas of Spacecraft Structures. Abstracts are due May 25, 2023. More details at: #spacecraft-structures" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">aiaa.org/SciTech/call-f…

@commseng is excited to announce a Call for Papers on deployable and reconfigurable structures. Find out more here: nature.com/collections/bj…

New research for a new year! In our Advanced Science article with @costantinejoe, stretchable mechanical metamaterials control coupling between physical deformation and adaptive antenna functionality. We envision applications from #wearables to #aerospace. doi.org/10.1002/advs.2…

Talk @Stanford tomorrow at 4pm. Building 530-127. If you're in the neighborhood, drop by! Thanks to the sponsors of the work @LIGHTEN_ITN and @NWONieuws Veni 😉

Summers in academia are a great time to catch up on writing! Check out our findings on the resistance of thin-ply fiber reinforced #composites with functional elements to cold and cryogenic temperatures. authors.elsevier.com/a/1fqES,3pss4M…

Conference alert! 🚨 @risso_giada, in collaboration with @PaoloErmanni @MSakovsky, presented her work on the ‘Actuation of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Surfaces With Multiple Programmable Shapes’ at SMASIS 2022. #Actuators controlled the shape change of large multi-stable structures

Very excited to see our work with @CMASLabETH published! Check it out to see the incredible role that anisotropy plays in multistability and its application to robotic locomotion

The call for papers for AIAA Scitech Forum 2023 is open! We are looking forward to seeing new research in the area of Spacecraft Structures. Abstracts are due June 1st. For more details and to submit your abstract go to: aiaa.org/SciTech/presen… #aiaa #spacetech