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Caltech materials science expert Julia Greer holding micro-lattice ultralight metal.
Caltech materials science expert Julia Greer holding the product of her lab's research: two polymer micro-truss skeletons topped by a smaller, hollow nickel-phosphorous micro-truss. Greer and her collaborators Lorenzo Valdevit of University of California, Irvine, and Alan Jacobson, William Carter, and Toby Schaedler at Malibu, Calif., based HRL Laboratories received a Popular Mechanics Innovator Award for their team's development of micro-lattice ultralight metal.
Credit: Caltech photo by Lance Hayashida
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