"Decker Yeardon is the first architecture firm to synthseize buckypaper in the form of a thin sheet. To create the material they chemically dispersed the nanotubes and then poured them into a vacuum filtration unit, where they collect on a membrane surface. The material has incredible potential as a building material – in this case, Decker Yeardon hopes to use the material as a thin, flexible electrode surface for an “artificial muscle” developed for architecture. The firm is developing its first prototype this year and hopes to demonstrate the new technology soon." - Kurt Starnes