Architected Material and Additive Manufacturing (AM)2 Lab, Princeton CEE. We focus on mechanics and design of bio-inspired architected and resilient materials.
Joined March 2021
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A new class of concrete and additive manufacturing is here. Two key contributions: 1) engineering new toughening mechanisms in concrete, “arrest-bridging-reenucleation” enabled by soft materials in layered concrete, 2) a multi-material AM technique from scratch. #princeton #CEE
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Mahsa Rabiei (G3 PhD) is presenting her work on pressure-based feedback control in robotic additive manufacturing of concrete is today’s Princeton’s Inaugural Humanity-driven robotics. @EPrinceton
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Happy holidays from Moini Lab! Another great year with these thoughtful secret Santas came to a nice end 🎁🎄 2025 came upon us w/ creativity in & inspiration for new paths in teaching & research, and marked new life adventures for some! Wishing everyone the best in 2026! 🎊🎉🥳
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Moini Lab retweeted
15 Oct 2025
#CPI2025 is a week away!
PMI associated faculty member @moini_reza is among the Featured Innovators for this year.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-p…
ALT Headshot of Reza Moini
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New paper on making use of back-pressure, to develop new types of feedback control in additive manufacturing, that directly deals w/ material uncertainty upstream vs. downstream computer vision feedback, releasing a need for path tracking: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… #control #c3dp
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Happy to share our lab’s new comprehensive framework, coupling phase-field & cohesive zone model within a variational formulation led by @aymannaj93, capturing fracture across interfaced multi-materials w/ implication in additive, heterogen., & architected mater. #fracture #c3dp
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2024 on the last issue of AM w/ my PhD student Shashank concluded a great year, featuring how fundamentals of statistical & fracture mechanics can be used to define disorder & engineer fracture toughness, inspired by mechanisms in cortical bone:
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#cement
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Moini Lab retweeted
13 Nov 2024
Strength. Toughness. @moini_reza discusses the importance of these properties in the concrete that makes up our public infrastructure in this @NSF podcast. Watch it at the link below ⬇️youtube.com/watch?v=RdPGs6ER…
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Moini Lab retweeted
12 Nov 2024
My reflections on future of design, construction, & additive/advanced manufacturing in a recent interview with @NSF Discovery Channel can be found in Apple podcast: shorturl.at/IJAh5 #NSFFunded #ScienceHappensHere #NSFStories #concrete #c3dp #Robotics #3dcp @EPrinceton
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Moini Lab retweeted
17 Oct 2024
This new crack-resistant cement created by @Princeton researchers was inspired by cortical bone, the tough outer layer of human bone that is made of tubular structures to resist fractures while keeping it light. Read about it in @FastCompany ⬇️ fastcompany.com/91209504/bon…
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Moini Lab retweeted
4 Oct 2024
Inspired by the architecture of human bone’s tough outer layer, engineers at Princeton led by PMI's @moini_reza have developed a cement-based material that is 5.6 times more damage-resistant than standard counterparts.
materials.princeton.edu/news…
ALT Tougher concrete, inspired by bone: new research from the Moini lab
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Our work on engineering fracture mechanics by nacre-like hard-soft cementitious composites made it the cover! This one on AFM back cover.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
@Shashan05867248 @HShagerdi #architectedmaterials #nacre #nature #fracture #concrete #bioinspired
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Moini Lab retweeted
22 Sep 2024
Engineers at #PrincetonU focused on geometric design to develop a new kind of concrete material that resists cracking and could make for a more durable, promising solution in architectural structures. (via @Archinect) bit.ly/3TASEok
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3 years from inception, it’s out. Learning from ancient fish scale of nature, we can design tough concrete of future. Here, #Fracture #mechanics experiment & theory explains how a double-twist plays special for crack to resist #robotics #c3dp @EPrinceton surl.li/grltih
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Link to the article: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Lab’s first high-impact paper in Adv. Func. Mater.! Inspired by nacre’s tablet sliding, we engineer an order of mag. higher fracture toughness & ductility w/o strength loss using laser processing nacre-like hard-soft cementitious material. @Shashank/Hadi!
doi.org/10.1002/adfm.2023135…
12 Jun 2024
Inspired by nature, researchers at @Princeton have created material that surpasses cement in crack resistance and ductility. The lead author of the study was @moini_reza. Read more here ⬇️
engineering.princeton.edu/ne…
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