Responsive materials that morph and adapt like biological systems are non-trivial to design and manufacture. Researchers developed a co-design framework that unites AI, physics, and 3D printing into ...

DS-CAN-based magnetic micropillar arrays allow reversible, on-demand, and contactless shape reconfiguration and shape fixation, through exposure to ultraviolet light at room temperature or upon ...

The new metamaterials can learn to take on any shape – here, they have learned the letters that spell ‘learn’, or in Dutch: ‘leren’. In a new Nature Physics publication, University of Amsterdam ...

A team of scientists has created a new shape-changing polymer that could transform how future soft materials are constructed. Made using a material called a liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE), a soft ...

In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex, ...

Learning how to change shape is a fundamental strategy in the adaptation and evolution of living organisms, from cells to tissues and animals. Human-made materials can also exhibit advanced ...

Scientists have found that staple-shaped particles can tangle together to create a material that is both strong and flexible.

Living organisms absorb external nutrients to grow, changing their macroscopic shapes to meet various challenges through mass transport and integration. While several strategies have been developed to ...

Engineers have discovered a way to make an ultra-strong stretchy metal that could enable the creation of shape-shifting aircraft. The new metal is an alloy made up of titanium and nickel. It's as ...

These novel materials can change, fix, and retain their shape reversibly by using magnetic fields and ultraviolet light. (Nanowerk News) Magnetic micropillar arrays consist of tiny, vertical ...