Skylar Tibbits

Associate Professor

Department
Department of Architecture
Technology Areas
Chemicals & Materials: Composites, Fabrics & Textiles, Metals, Polymers / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Manufacturing & Equipment / Sensing & Imaging: Chemical & Radiation Sensing / Biotechnology: Sensors & Monitoring

Innovating at the intersection of design and technology, advancing self-assembly and programmable material technologies for revolutionary manufacturing and construction processes.

Background and Experience

Skylar Tibbits is an Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture where he teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios and coordinate's MIT's undergraduate Design programs. Tibbits is also the co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab housed at MIT’s Morningside Academy for Design. The Self-Assembly Lab focuses on self-assembly and programmable material technologies for novel manufacturing, products and construction processes.

Technologies

Self-Transforming Carbon Fiber

Technology / Case number: #17431J
Skylar Tibbits / Junus Khan / Athina Papadopoulou
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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4D: Printing Multi-Material Shape Change

Technology / Case number: #16494J
Skylar Tibbits / Shai Hirsch / Daniel Dikovsky
Technology Areas: Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Reversible Textile Transformation

Technology / Case number: #21803J
Skylar Tibbits / Gihan Amarasiriwardena / Carmel Dunlap / Lavender Tessmer / Schendy Kernizan / Jared Laucks
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Sustainable Future
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Liquid Metal Printing

Technology / Case number: #21880J
Skylar Tibbits / Miya Nobuhiro / Masaki Otomori / Bjorn Sparrman / Schendy Kernizan / Jared Laucks
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Active Woven Materials

Technology / Case number: #18934
Skylar Tibbits / Dimitrios Mairopoulos / Jared Laucks
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
Impact Areas: Healthy Living
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Active Lattices

Technology / Case number: #18914
Skylar Tibbits / Jared Laucks / Athina Papadopoulou
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Sensing & Imaging
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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3D Knit Spacesuit Sleeve with Multifunctional Fibers and Tunable Compression

Technology / Case number: #24607
Hugh M Herr / Christopher Shallal / Cody Paige / Rachel Bellisle / Jesus Guillermo Herrera Arcos / Ganit Goldstein / Atharva Sahasrabudhe / Volodymyr Korolovych / Lavender Tessmer / Svetlana V Boriskina / Skylar Tibbits / Dava Newman
Technology Areas: Biotechnology / Chemicals & Materials / Industrial Engineering & Automation
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Active Self-Transformable Textiles

Technology / Case number: #17853
Skylar Tibbits / Christophe Guberan / Athina Papadopoulou
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials / Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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Pre-Stretched & Constrained Transformable Textiles

Technology / Case number: #17769
Skylar Tibbits / Christophe Guberan / David Costanza / Athina Papadopoulou
Technology Areas: Chemicals & Materials
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