Publications

Complete list of peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, journal special issues, and articles with publication of work by MMLab researchers.

  • [18]
    T. Cheng: 2025, Material programming for 4D-printing : architected mesostructures for bioinspired self-shaping. Dissertation, Universität Stuttgart, ICD Research Report #13.  (DOI: 10.18419/opus-15552)
  • [17]
    Z. Li, J. Tian, G. Ji, T. Cheng, V. Loftness, X. Han: 2025, Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Adaptive Control for Climate-Responsive Kinetic Building Facades. Buildings, vol. 15, no. 16.  (DOI: 10.3390/buildings15162977)
  • [16]
    T. Cheng*, Y. Tahouni*, E.S. Sahin, K. Ulrich, S. Lajewski, C. Bonten, D. Wood, J. Rühe, T. Speck, A. Menges: 2024, Weather-responsive adaptive shading through biobased and bioinspired hygromorphic 4D-printing. Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1.  (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-54808-8)
  • [15]
    N. Tashiro, R. Faulkner, S. Melnyk, T. Rosales Rodriguez, B. Javot, Y. Tahouni, T. Cheng, D. Wood, A. Menges, K.J. Kuchenbecker: 2024, Building Instructions You Can Feel: Edge-Changing Haptic Devices for Digitally Guided Construction. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, vol. 32, no. 1.  (DOI: 10.1145/3698235)
  • [14]
    N. Opgenorth, T. Cheng, A. Lauer, L. Skoury, E.S. Sahin, T. Stark, Y. Tahouni, S. Treml, M. Göbel, L. Kiesewetter, C. Schlopschnat, M. Zorn, X. Yang, F. Amtsberg, H.J. Wagner, D. Wood, O. Sawodny, T. Wortmann, A. Menges: 2024, Multi-scalar computational fabrication and construction of bio-based building envelopes: The livMatS biomimetic shell. Fabricate 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures, pp. 22–31.  (DOI: 10.2307/jj.11374766.7)
  • [13]
    T. Cheng, M. Thielen, S. Poppinga, Y. Tahouni, D. Wood, T. Steinberg, A. Menges, T. Speck: 2023, Entwicklung bioinspirierter und selbstformender Orthesen per 4D-Druck. Orthopädie Technik, vol. 74, no. 1.  (Available online)
  • [12]
    T. Speck, T. Cheng, F. Klimm, A. Menges, S. Poppinga, O. Speck, Y. Tahouni, F. Tauber, M. Thielen: 2023, Plants as inspiration for material-based sensing and actuation in soft robots and machines. MRS Bulletin, vol. 48, pp. 730–745.  (DOI: 10.1557/s43577-022-00470-8)
  • [11]
    E.S. Sahin, T. Cheng, D. Wood, Y. Tahouni, S. Poppinga, M. Thielen, T. Speck, A. Menges: 2023, Cross-Sectional 4D-Printing: Upscaling Self-Shaping Structures with Differentiated Material Properties Inspired by the Large-Flowered Butterwort (Pinguicula grandiflora). Biomimetics, vol. 8, no. 2.  (DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics8020233)
  • [10]
    D. Wood, T. Cheng, Y. Tahouni, A. Menges: 2023, Material Programming for Bio-inspired and Bio-based Hygromorphic Building Envelopes. Advanced Materials in Smart Building Skins for Sustainability, pp. 99–112.  (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-09695-2_4)
  • [9]
    Y. Tahouni, T. Cheng, S. Lajewski, J. Benz, C. Bonten, D. Wood, A. Menges: 2022, Codesign of Biobased Cellulose-Filled Filaments and Mesostructures for 4D Printing Humidity Responsive Smart Structures. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, vol. 10, no. 1.  (DOI: 10.1089/3dp.2022.0061)
  • [8]
    T. Cheng, D. Wood, L. Kiesewetter, E. Özdemir, K. Antorveza, A. Menges: 2021, Programming material compliance and actuation: hybrid additive fabrication of biocomposite structures for large-scale self-shaping. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, vol. 16, no. 5.  (DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac10af)
  • [7]
    T. Cheng, M. Thielen, S. Poppinga, Y. Tahouni, D. Wood, T. Steinberg, A. Menges, T. Speck: 2021, Bio-Inspired Motion Mechanisms: Computational Design and Material Programming of Self-Adjusting 4D-Printed Wearable Systems. Advanced Science, vol. 8, no. 13.  (DOI: 10.1002/advs.202100411)
  • [6]
    E. Özdemir, L. Kiesewetter, K. Antorveza, T. Cheng, S. Leder, D. Wood, A. Menges: 2021, Towards Self-shaping Metamaterial Shells: A Computational Design Workflow for Hybrid Additive Manufacturing of Architectural Scale Double-Curved Structures. Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES (CDRF 2021), pp. 275–285.  (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_26)
  • [5]
    T. Cheng, Y. Tahouni, D. Wood, B. Stolz, R. Mülhaupt, A. Menges: 2020, Multifunctional Mesostructures: Design and Material Programming for 4D-printing. Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF ’20).  (DOI: 10.1145/3424630.3425418)
  • [4]
    T. Cheng, D. Wood, X. Wang, P. Yuan, A. Menges: 2020, Programming Material Intelligence: An Additive Fabrication Strategy for Self-Shaping Biohybrid Components. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems - Proceedings of the Living Machines 2020 Conference, vol. 12413, pp. 36–45.  (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64313-3_5)
  • [3]
    S. Kliem, Y. Tahouni, T. Cheng, A. Menges, C. Bonten: 2020, Biobased smart materials for processing via fused layer modeling. AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2289, no. 1.  (DOI: 10.1063/5.0028730)
  • [2]
    Y. Tahouni, T. Cheng, D. Wood, R. Sachse, R. Thierer, M. Bischoff, A. Menges: 2020, Self-shaping Curved Folding: a 4D-printing method for fabrication of curved creased origami structures. Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF ’20).  (DOI: 10.1145/3424630.3425416)
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    S. Poppinga, C. Zollfrank, O. Prucker, J. Rühe, A. Menges, T. Cheng, T. Speck: 2018, Toward a New Generation of Smart Biomimetic Actuators for Architecture. Advanced Materials, vol. 30, no. 19.  (DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703653)