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Real-time reprogrammable snapping mechanical metamaterial with nonlinear force-displacement responses
A real-time reprogrammable snapping mechanical metamaterial is reported to exhibit nonlinear force–displacement responses.
Industrial Testing of Asphalt Concrete Modified by Capsules for Self-Healing
This study demonstrates the effectiveness of AR-polymer capsules in enhancing the self-healing properties of asphalt concrete.
Fire ant rafts offer principles and rules for synthetic programmable morphing matter
This study explores how fire ant rafts can inform the design of synthetic programmable morphing materials through emergent collective dynamics.
Optimal Design of an Acoustic Lens with Anisotropic Metamaterial
By optimizing the sizes of random rigid scatterers in an anisotropic acoustic metamaterial, the lens achieves subwavelength focusing beyond the diffraction limit.
Self-Healing Concrete Incorporating Bacterial Spores for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
Self-healing concrete incorporating bacterial spores shows significant potential for enhancing durability and sustainability in infrastructure.
Single-material 4D-printed shape-morphing structures via spatially patterned strain trapping
A single-step, single-material 4D printing approach uses spatially patterned strain trapping to program one-way, spatially controlled shape morphing without secondary post-programming.
SMA Simulator: An Efficient Tool for Simulating the Partial Nonlinear Loading Cycles of Shape Memory Alloy Wire Actuators
The SMA Simulator is a MATLAB tool designed to efficiently simulate the nonlinear behavior of Shape Memory Alloy wires under various loading conditions.
Ti-Ni-Cu shape memory alloy preparation by powder metallurgy and hot forging
Ti-Ni-Cu shape memory alloys show improved properties over traditional Ti-Ni alloys, making them suitable for advanced applications.
Prestressing and Self-Healing of Fiber-Reinforced and Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Using Shape Memory Alloys
This study explores the use of shape memory alloys for prestressing and self-healing in fiber-reinforced and ultra-high-performance concrete.
Photoresponsive Rotaxanes Switch Lipid Bilayer Neuromorphic Behavior with Light
This study explores a photoresponsive rotaxane that enables programmable neuromorphic behaviors in lipid bilayers through light-induced changes.
The role of polyelectrolyte brushes in tunable synaptic devices
Polyelectrolyte brushes exhibit synaptic behavior, offering insights for developing low-power memory storage devices.
A auxetic metamaterial structure: analysis of shear and bending, mechanical characterization
Auxetic (negative Poisson’s ratio) re-entrant unit-cell designs integrated into bone screws improved load-bearing capacity and deformation resistance under shear and bending versus conventional screws.
Sublinear-Time Reconfiguration of Programmable Matter with Joint Movements
The paper shows sublinear-time centralized reconfiguration of geometric amoebot programmable matter using joint parallel movements, including universal reconfiguration to a line segment in O(√n log n) rounds.
Lactobacilli in Material Science: Sustainable Biopolymers and Self-Healing Technologies
Lactobacilli-based biofabrication is presented as a route to biodegradable biopolymers, self-repairing concrete, and antimicrobial coatings.
Sliding Cubes in Parallel
The paper studies parallel reconfiguration of sliding cube modules for programmable matter and proves strong NP-hardness and approximation hardness results for deciding feasible and optimal makespans.
Shape Memory Polymers: An Overview
This review systematically surveys shape-memory polymer composites and their thermally, solvent, light, electrically, and magnetically induced response mechanisms, highlighting key design strategies and remaining challenges.
Green-engineered MoS2-functionalized nonwoven fabric: washable, biocompatible, and pressure-sensitive smart textile
This research presents a green-engineered MoS2-functionalized nonwoven fabric that serves as a durable and biocompatible pressure-sensitive smart textile.
Active Composite Plates with Embedded Shape-Memory Alloy Wires for Vibration Damping
This study explores the use of embedded shape-memory alloy wires in composite plates to enhance vibration damping performance.