{"id":219659,"date":"2025-08-08T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/programmable-soft-materials-a-leap-forward-in-energy-absorption-and-shape-shifting-design"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:06:36","slug":"programmable-soft-materials-a-leap-forward-in-energy-absorption-and-shape-shifting-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/programmable-soft-materials-a-leap-forward-in-energy-absorption-and-shape-shifting-design","title":{"rendered":"Programmable Soft Materials: A Leap Forward in Energy Absorption and Shape-Shifting Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/programmable-soft-materials-a-leap-forward-in-energy-absorption-and-shape-shifting-design2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with Harvard University, Caltech, Sandia National Laboratories, and Oregon State University, have unveiled a groundbreaking innovation in materials science: a <strong>programmable soft material<\/strong> capable of bending, bouncing, and absorbing energy on demand. This new material, described in the journal <em>Advanced Materials<\/em>, could pave the way for next-generation protective gear, aerospace structures, and adaptive robotic systems.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-programmable-soft-material-absorbs-energy.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the original article on Phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with Harvard University, Caltech, Sandia National Laboratories, and Oregon State University, have unveiled a groundbreaking innovation in materials science: a programmable soft material capable of bending, bouncing, and absorbing energy on demand. This new material, described in the journal Advanced Materials, could pave the way for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219659","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}