Jochen Mueller

About

Jochen Mueller is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research combines additive manufacturing, functional materials, and computational design to create programmable matter. Mueller’s work is situated at the intersection of science, application, and design, focusing on architected, programmable, and smart materials, as well as computational design. His Laboratory for Digital Fabrication and Programmable Materials integrates fabrication processes with computational tools to manipulate existing materials and structures, aiming to alter their properties and enhance performance. Mueller’s background includes hands-on experience in the aerospace and automotive industries, enabling him to pursue research projects with real-world applications such as improving materials used in prosthetic devices and lightweight structures. He is involved with several research institutes at Johns Hopkins, including the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, and the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials. His notable contributions include developing processes for controlling fiber alignment in composite materials, fabricating lightweight structures that balance strength and toughness, designing smart textiles that adapt to environmental changes, building active lattices capable of switching from hard to soft states, and manufacturing soft, fast-moving robots. Mueller holds a…

Research topics

• Materials science
• Physics
• Computer Science
• Nanotechnology
• Optoelectronics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mechanical engineering
• Engineering
• Control engineering
• Electrical engineering

Selected publications

• Mechanical metamaterials and beyond

  Nature Communications · 2023 · 577 citations

  Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has focused on passive mechanical metamaterials and the tunability of their mechanical properties. Deep integration of multifunctionality, sensing, electrical actuation, information processing, and advancing data-driven designs are grand challenges in the mechanical metamaterials community that could lead to truly intelligent mecha…

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• Multimaterial extrusion 3D printing printheads

  Nature Reviews Materials · 2025-05-22 · 57 citations

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• Multiscale 3D printing via active nozzle size and shape control

  Science Advances · 2024-06-05 · 48 citations

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  Three-dimensional (3D) printers extruding filaments through a fixed nozzle encounter a conflict between high resolution, requiring small diameters, and high speed, requiring large diameters. This limitation is especially pronounced in multiscale architectures featuring both bulk and intricate elements. Here, we introduce adaptive nozzle 3D printing (AN3DP), a technique enabling dynamic alteration of nozzle diameter and cross-sectional shape during printing. The AN3DP nozzle consists of eight ind…

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• Meta-mechanotronics for self-powered computation

  Materials Today · 2023-04-18 · 29 citations

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• Voxel Interface Control in Multimaterial Extrusion 3D Printing

  Advanced Materials · 2024-10-28 · 21 citations

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  Interfaces are crucial in natural and engineered systems, dictating essential biological, ecological, and technological properties that augment performance, functionality, and user experience. Yet, achieving precise interfacial control poses significant challenges in both conventional and additive manufacturing, where scalability constraints impede the controlled deposition of quasi-2D layers within 3D objects. This paper introduces Voxel-Interface 3D Printing (VI3DP), which enables comprehensiv…

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Frequent coauthors

• Pauline A. Miller

  Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition

  26 shared

• Kristina Shea

  22 shared

• Jennifer A. Lewis

  12 shared

• Jordan R. Raney

  University of Pennsylvania

  7 shared

• Chiara Daraio

  Meta (United States)

  6 shared

• Dennis M. Kochmann

  6 shared

• Sidney Cohen

  5 shared

• A. M. Pappenheimer

  5 shared

Awards & honors

• Lopez-Loreta Prize (2020)
• ETH Medal (2018)
• Catalyst Award for Sustainability in Metal Additive Manufact…

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