{"id":184848,"date":"2024-03-10T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/metamaterial-magic-scientists-develop-new-material-that-can-dynamically-tune-its-shape-and-mechanical-properties-in-real-time"},"modified":"2024-03-10T14:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:23:34","slug":"metamaterial-magic-scientists-develop-new-material-that-can-dynamically-tune-its-shape-and-mechanical-properties-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/metamaterial-magic-scientists-develop-new-material-that-can-dynamically-tune-its-shape-and-mechanical-properties-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Metamaterial Magic: Scientists Develop New Material That Can Dynamically Tune Its Shape and Mechanical Properties in Real-Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metamaterial-magic-scientists-develop-new-material-that-can-dynamically-tune-its-shape-and-mechanical-properties-in-real-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from the extraordinary adaptability seen in biological entities such as the octopus, a significant advancement in the field of soft robotics has been made. Under the guidance of Professor Jiyun Kim from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/ulsan-national-institute-of-science-and-technology\/\">UNIST<\/a>, a research team has successfully developed an encodable multifunctional material that can dynamically tune its shape and mechanical properties in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>This groundbreaking metamaterial surpasses the limitations of existing materials, opening up new possibilities for applications in robotics and other fields requiring adaptability.<\/p>\n<p>Current soft machines lack the level of adaptability demonstrated by their biological counterparts, primarily due to limited real-time tunability and restricted reprogrammable space of properties and functionalities. In order to bridge this gap, the research team introduced a novel approach utilizing graphical stiffness patterns. By independently switching the digital binary stiffness states (soft or rigid) of individual constituent units within a simple auxetic structure featuring elliptical voids, the material achieves in situ and gradational tunability across various mechanical qualities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing inspiration from the extraordinary adaptability seen in biological entities such as the octopus, a significant advancement in the field of soft robotics has been made. Under the guidance of Professor Jiyun Kim from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST, a research team has successfully developed an encodable multifunctional material that can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184848","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}