ALT An additively manufactured wicking material with spatially varying porosity enables inverse design of customized fluid propagation behavior.

ALT In article number 2300785, Vi T. Vo, Daniel J. Preston, and co-workers introduce a soft fluidic diode made from flexible thermoplastic and textile sheets using a layered fabrication approach. This cover image illustrates the diode as a foundational component in the development of sheet-based fluidic logic systems—as both modular and integrated circuits—to enable electronics-free control of soft devices and robots. Fluidic circuits incorporating the diode provide capabilities including Boolean operations, encoding, and rectification.

ALT Most wearable haptic devices (top left) deliver haptic notifications to the body; perception of haptics is depicted as brain activity (pink region). In the multiscale paradigm (bottom right), a user actively interacts with the wearable device to perceive a greater amount of information, both via passive receipt of haptic notifications through the band (pink region) and via active exploration of the textile haptic band with fingertips (yellow region). Background letters and numbers represent information transmission to the user via the device. For more information on multiscale haptics, see article number 2300897 by Marcia K. O’Malley and co-workers.

ALT Faye presenting her thesis during her defense

ALT Faye receiving a PI Lab framed photo

ALT PI Lab members in t-shirts representing their faculty positions

ALT PI Lab summer social at Aga's in Houston