{"id":213389,"date":"2025-05-06T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/structurally-reprogrammable-magnetic-metamaterials-hold-promise-for-biomedicine-soft-robotics"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:07:56","slug":"structurally-reprogrammable-magnetic-metamaterials-hold-promise-for-biomedicine-soft-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/structurally-reprogrammable-magnetic-metamaterials-hold-promise-for-biomedicine-soft-robotics","title":{"rendered":"Structurally reprogrammable magnetic metamaterials hold promise for biomedicine, soft robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/structurally-reprogrammable-magnetic-metamaterials-hold-promise-for-biomedicine-soft-robotics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Harvard University have experimentally demonstrated that it is possible to reprogram the mechanical and structural behavior of innovative artificial materials with magnetic properties, known as metamaterials, without the need to modify their composition. This technology opens the door to innovations in fields such as biomedicine and soft robotics, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The study, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/adma.202412353%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Advanced Materials<\/i>, details how to reprogram these <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/mechanical+metamaterials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">mechanical metamaterials<\/a> by using flexible magnets distributed throughout their structure.<\/p>\n<p>What is innovative about our proposal is the incorporation of small flexible magnets integrated into a rotating rhomboid matrix that allows the stiffness and energy absorption capacity of the structure to be modified by simply changing the distribution of these magnets or applying an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/external+magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">external magnetic field<\/a>. This confers unique properties that are not present in conventional materials or in nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and Harvard University have experimentally demonstrated that it is possible to reprogram the mechanical and structural behavior of innovative artificial materials with magnetic properties, known as metamaterials, without the need to modify their composition. This technology opens the door to innovations in fields such as biomedicine and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213389","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}