{"id":219111,"date":"2025-07-31T04:23:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/stitched-for-strength-the-physics-of-jamming-in-stiff-knitted-fabrics"},"modified":"2025-07-31T04:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T09:23:03","slug":"stitched-for-strength-the-physics-of-jamming-in-stiff-knitted-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/stitched-for-strength-the-physics-of-jamming-in-stiff-knitted-fabrics","title":{"rendered":"Stitched for strength: The physics of jamming in stiff, knitted fabrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stitched-for-strength-the-physics-of-jamming-in-stiff-knitted-fabrics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>School of Physics Associate Professor Elisabetta Matsumoto is unearthing the secrets of the centuries-old practice of knitting through experiments, models, and simulations. Her goal? Leveraging knitting for breakthroughs in advanced manufacturing\u2014including more sustainable textiles, wearable electronics, and soft robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Matsumoto, who is also a principal investigator at the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM2) at Hiroshima University, is the corresponding author on a new study exploring the physics of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/jamming\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">jamming<\/a>\u2019\u2014a phenomenon when soft or stretchy materials become rigid under low stress but soften under higher tension.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pre\/abstract\/10.1103\/g94g-c6tt\" target=\"_blank\">Pulling Apart the Mechanisms That Lead to Jammed Knitted Fabrics<\/a>,\u201d is published in <i>Physical Review E<\/i>, and also includes Georgia Tech Matsumoto Group graduate students Sarah Gonzalez and Alexander Cachine in addition to former postdoctoral fellow Michael Dimitriyev, who is now an assistant professor at Texas A&amp;M University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Physics Associate Professor Elisabetta Matsumoto is unearthing the secrets of the centuries-old practice of knitting through experiments, models, and simulations. Her goal? Leveraging knitting for breakthroughs in advanced manufacturing\u2014including more sustainable textiles, wearable electronics, and soft robotics. Matsumoto, who is also a principal investigator at the International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}