{"id":107874,"date":"2020-05-30T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/smart-metamaterials-that-sense-and-reprogram-themselves"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:44:49","slug":"smart-metamaterials-that-sense-and-reprogram-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/smart-metamaterials-that-sense-and-reprogram-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Smart metamaterials that sense and reprogram themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-metamaterials-that-sense-and-reprogram-themselves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Materials scientists aim to engineer intelligence into the fabric of materials or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/materials-science\/metamaterials\">metamaterials<\/a> for programmable functions. Engineering efforts can vary from passive to active forms to develop programmable metasurfaces using dynamic and arbitrary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/social-sciences\/electromagnetic-waves\">electromagnetic<\/a> (EM) wavefields. Such metasurfaces, however, require manual control to switch between functions. In a new study now published on <i>Light: <i>Science<\/i> &amp; Applications<\/i>, Qian Ma and an interdisciplinary research team in the State Key Laboratory, Cyberspace <i>Science<\/i> and Technology, and the Department of Electronics in China engineered a smart metasurface for self-adaptive programmability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials scientists aim to engineer intelligence into the fabric of materials or metamaterials for programmable functions. Engineering efforts can vary from passive to active forms to develop programmable metasurfaces using dynamic and arbitrary electromagnetic (EM) wavefields. Such metasurfaces, however, require manual control to switch between functions. In a new study now published on Light: Science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107874","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}