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Asynchronous Silent Programmable Matter: Line Formation
It proposes an optimal distributed algorithm for line formation in the SILBOT programmable-matter model under asynchronous, silent, oblivious particle behavior.
Inverse design and additive manufacturing of shape-morphing structures based on functionally graded composites
An inverse design method controls local bending stiffness in functionally graded composites to produce kirigami-like shape-morphing structures that match target 3D shapes in simulations and experiments.
Origami Single-end Capacitive Sensing for Continuous Shape Estimation of Morphing Structures
A single-end origami-integrated capacitive sensing method (FxC) can track continuous morphing shape by correlating capacitive signals with geometry via deep learning.
Wave-speed management of dipole, bright and W-shaped solitons in optical metamaterials
This study explores the management of wave speeds in soliton pulses within nonlinear optical metamaterials.
Adaptive Collective Responses to Local Stimuli in Anonymous Dynamic Networks
A local-interaction algorithm enables agents in programmable matter to switch system-wide phases in response to dynamically appearing/disappearing stimuli, even on reconfigurable graphs.
Optical non-Hermitian skin effect in two-dimensional uniform media
A theory shows optical non-Hermitian skin modes can localize in uniform anisotropic lossy media, with localization set by an effective gauge potential and implementable via subwavelength multilayer metamaterials.
Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Liquid Metal Composite: Ultrafast, Untethered, and Programmable Actuation by Induction Heating
An LCE–liquid metal composite can be actuated in milliseconds using induction heating, with spatial and sequential programmability achieved by controlling the magnetic field and liquid-metal thickness.
Size Effects in Periodic Metamaterials
Numerical results show that reflection and transmission of periodic electromagnetic metamaterials change with unit-cell size relative to wavelength, challenging homogenization when d is comparable to λ.
Discontinuous metric programming in liquid crystalline elastomers
This research introduces a method for shape-morphing in liquid crystalline elastomers through spatial patterning of crosslink density.
3D-Patterned Inverse-Designed Mid-Infrared Metaoptics
This research presents multilayer optical metamaterials that enhance imaging systems by manipulating light properties for better efficiency and functionality.
Soliton metacrystals: topology and chirality
A periodic “soliton metacrystal” in a ring microresonator yields a controllable topological band structure with phononic edge states and a chirality signature in optical comb spectra.
Local Stochastic Algorithms for Alignment in Self-Organizing Particle Systems
Local stochastic, distributed rules on lattice-based self-organizing particles can produce collective alignment (or nonalignment) and also tune compression/expansion while maintaining or relaxing connectivity constraints.
Magneto-thermomechanically triggered active mechanical metamaterials -- untethered, reversible, reprogrammable transformations with shape locking
A magneto-thermomechanical method uses shape-memory polymer prestress and asymmetric magnetic torque to achieve untethered, reversible, reprogrammable metamaterial transformations with shape locking.
Shape-morphing structures based on perforated kirigami
Perforated kirigami uses a designed porosity distribution (via tapered-width cuts with uniform thickness) to tune bending stiffness and achieve target axisymmetric 3D morphing shapes.
Neuromorphic metamaterials for mechanosensing and perceptual associative learning
A multistable neuromorphic mechanical metamaterial uses flexible memristors to store and retrieve learned spatial touch-like patterns from sequential mechanical inputs.
Fast Reconfiguration for Programmable Matter
A new amoebot shape-reconfiguration algorithm achieves global transformation from local rules without relying on a canonical intermediate configuration, with linear activation rounds in the worst case.
SAXS measurements of azobenzene lipid vesicles reveal buffer-dependent photoswitching and quantitative Z->E isomerisation by X-rays
SAXS shows that azobenzene lipid membranes undergo buffer-dependent photoswitching, enabling quantitative Z→E isomerisation measurements during soft X-ray exposure.
Centralised Connectivity-Preserving Transformations for Programmable Matter: A Minimal Seed Approach
A minimal multi-node “seed” enables connectivity-preserving transformations between certain grid-based programmable matter shapes.